For International Women's Day, let's remember women from one nation who are trapped and transported to another nation to service men sexually.
One such woman is described in the opening paragraph of a report by Frances Robles, Patricia Mazzei, and Nicholas Kulish on the front page of last Sunday's New York Times:
She was 49, a recent immigrant and deeply in debt to a loan shark back home in China when she answered an employment ad three years ago that promised thousands of dollars a month, but offered no job description. She realized too late that she had been tricked into working at a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, where besides kneading backs, she was expected to sexually service up to a dozen men a day.
This woman's story is heart-breaking. She endures violence, her payment is sometimes taken from her by a client, her passport has been taken from her, and she can't report these things to police because she is considered an illegal immigrant.
She is trapped by her gender, her economic class, her nationality, her race, and her mistake of answering a too-good-to-be-true ad. Who knows what problems caused her to be alone and in debt in her mid-forties in China?
This is what International Women's Day is all about--women's lives where many factors combine to trap them. Looking at many factors that affect a woman's life is called intersectional feminism.
Thank you to these reporters and to the NY Times for bringing their plight to our attention.
And let's give credit also to Robert K. Kraft and those who arrested him at an illicit massage parlor in Florida.
Buddy, your exploitation of these women has now hurt you. May women be freed as a result, and may you go to jail and lose your silly football team.
But there's another problem: women who exploit women. Here's the report from the Miami Herald Wednesday as summed up by Deadspin:
Li Yang, the 45-year-old woman who founded the massage parlor where Patriots owner Robert Kraft is alleged to have solicited prostitution, watched this year’s Super Bowl at a party hosted by Donald Trump.
Li Yang, former owner of Orchids of Asia, needs to go to jail too. And we need to get dt out of the White House and into jail.
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