Do People Who Work at Sex Toy Shops Count as “Young Professionals”?
I’m just askin’… I’m still askin’… And I won’t stop askin’…. That’s how they marginalize us. They don’t go into the local department store, the shoe store, or the coffee shop and show regular folk doing regular jobs. EQMD drags their plantation mentality selves in front of the lemmings and say “Lookie, our little trannies provide excellent customer service.” EQMD mentions Sugar as a “novelty shop” and the owner calls it a “retail store,” but their website clearly identifies it as a “sex toy shop.” I guess “out and proud” doesn’t apply when you’re asking clergy in Annapolis to celebrate how loving and committed you are. They paint us into a caricature of what many churchgoers might consider a “sleazy” job with obvious sexual overtones. It’s bad enough that Jerry Springer does that. But this is coming from a so called “civil rights organization.” As I recall it was the
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“Do People Who Work at Sex Toy Shops Count as “Young Professionals”?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging labor, economics, and institutions. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life25%
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