Seattle homeless organization hires transexual to strip at conference

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www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/after-dancer-strips-at-seattle-conference-on-homelessness-agency-director-suspended/%3famp=1

Using funds to pay for exploitation, forcing people to participate in a sexualized performance....I could go on..but im not sure how to within guidelines.

I saw a picture from this event on Twitter but didn't see the outcome. Can't get the link working on my phone, but glad it includes the word "suspended"! Who on earth thought this was a good idea?

The same culture on the west coast that screams biological essentialist at a woman fleeing dv who says she can't share private spaces with adult male bodied people due to trauma. They can't provide adequate and safe shelter in winter, but they can spend money on exploitation.

I don't believe Beyonce St James is female, but I do believe they were exploited, and hope they are coping with the media attention. I am anti sex work, and strongly against forcing people to participate in sexually based so called entertainment.

How is this not sexual harassment of the conference attendees? It is the very definition of “hostile environment” under American employment law.

How odd for the same libfems who promote MeToo to support stripping-as-entertainment in a professional environment. How do they live with the cognitive dissonance?

It’s no different to Goldman Sachs having their female employees attend business meetings at strip clubs.

It is horrible. Considering the sorry state of provision for homeless people in Seattle, spending money on this is morally bankrupt.

I can’t even......

Queer theory erases boundaries. Some boundaries are good and keep people safe.

According to the DM: Seattle homeless agency director resigns after coming under fire for inviting a drag queen to perform at annual conference where she stripped, twerked, and kissed attendees.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7803641/Seattle-homeless-agency-director-QUITS-inviting-drag-queen-perform-conference.html

I think this may reflect that overall, sexual entertainment, as someone called it, has really infiltrated our society, in a very wholesale way. It's completely normalised.

In a way I'm not that surprised that some person might not really twig that some event like this is all that different than other examples. Overt sexualisation is all over the place, in advertising for a start, but it's endemic on television and in film as well. There are a lot of films someone might show to an adult audience without thinking twice that have sexual content that really is only there for "entertainment" which is to say, it's not necessary to see it for the story and it's not non-sexual nudity. It's sexualised and meant to give people some sort of a thrill.

When those kinds of boundaries become eroded, people will no longer have as much capacity to make judgements about this kind of thing.

Whilst this individual quiting is welcome, it is indicative of the culture of services that this could happen in the first place. There is no respect for women or boundaries.

I feel as if it might have been a prank to demonstrate the problems of woke....but sadly it doesn’t appear to be.

Woke and/or queer theory. I can’t keep up.

Bloody hell. I've worked in conferences, and there's no way we would have spent potential profit (or breaking even!) on any entertainment other than food and drink. A sponsor could step in (though we wouldn't have offered anything sexualised - no way. As an all-women team, we were exposed to being propositioned by conference guests as it was: why would we give them ideas?). I do wonder how much Beyoncé Black St James was paid for this. Or how little.

P.S. the end of the article mentions a move toward creation of a regional homelessness authority, so perhaps All Homes were just trying to blow the last of their budget. Didn't blow money on a Thanksgiving or winter-season dinner for actual homeless people, though. Imagine missing that opportunity for real virtue (not even virtue-signalling)!

The last thing they care about is the homeless.

And now everyone appears to be shooting the messenger, ie the journalist who brought this incident to light, because only a fascist could object to people having some random's pretendy boobs thrust in their face at a work event where there's going to be considerable pressure not to tell the person doing the thrusting to piss off. Gotta be a team player and all.

It does seem more and more like the charity sector has been ground zero for the takeover of pretty much everything by people who mistake childish provocation for being progressive.

It's against the accepted message, the journo was not saying the right things to get woke-cookies.

It will get twisted so that anyone who was not ok with forced sexual entertainment and physical contact will be censured for their wrong ideas and unreasonable boundaries.

Isn't that already "censured" in the DARVO term "SW*RF"?

I had to look up darvo. Very interesting! Thank you!

Having watched the video, the only legit reference to "homeless" that I can see is the stripper's breasts.