LOG IN / REGISTER



Threaded Order Chronological Order

re: "The Oldest Profession" as an act 2 11 o'clock number... hmm
Posted by: Singapore/Fling 03:39 pm EDT 03/19/22
In reply to: re: "The Oldest Profession" as an act 2 11 o'clock number... hmm - Chazwaza 03:24 pm EDT 03/19/22

I don't remember the original that well. This version also doesn't say she has AIDS, but it gives us *a lot* of context clues starting in the first act.

I think I see how you're trying to lay out your logic, but it becomes a hypothetical: yes, she could have gotten AIDS in any number of ways, but the show implies that she did get it because she's a sex worker, so the disease is directly linked to her occupation. If someone injures themself at their job and files for compensation, does their employer say "well, you could have been injured in any number of ways, so it doesn't matter that it actually happened because we dropped a desk on you" (or however people get injured at office jobs)?
reply to this message


re: "The Oldest Profession" as an act 2 11 o'clock number... hmm
Posted by: Chazwaza 03:55 pm EDT 03/19/22
In reply to: re: "The Oldest Profession" as an act 2 11 o'clock number... hmm - Singapore/Fling 03:39 pm EDT 03/19/22

But my point is that everything about living "the life" would wear out anyone doing it... in ways that a non street-sex-worker life would not. So if Paul, a gay man is dying of AIDS and Sonja a female sex worker is dying of AIDS, i don't think it makes sense to say that Sonja's job literally killed her. Unless you're also saying Paul being a non-celibate human literally killed him. No, in both cases a specific virus that had no cure or meds to suppress it killed Paul and Sonja.

Again, it's a meaningly debate.
reply to this message


Privacy Policy


Time to render: 0.008264 seconds.