As an MP, Femke Halsema helped make prostitution legal in the Netherlands. So why does she now want to overhaul an area where sex workers famously ply their trade
Halsema, 53, a former leader of the national Green party, though, faced a difference grade of barracking: shouts of “bitch” and “whore”, and a wall of middle fingers. “It was a moment when I was confronted by being a woman,” she aid, laughing. “I think the last mayor wasn’t called a bitch : www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/16/amsterdam-green-mayor-reform-red-light-district
There will always come a time, when even the most idealistic& woke will realise what it means, and can imply, to be a woman.