David and George, apropos of your posts (linked below) ? I think that Castro’s Cuba is far more destructive of women and their lifelong prospects, not to mention that it creates a far more favorable and permanent environment for their sexual exploitation by men, than some jerk fratboy. There is, it would seem to me, a difference between a few women having morning-after regrets after getting drunk at a frat party (discrete and thoroughly avoidable incidents) and a generation of underaged girls whose families are in such dire, inescapable poverty that they often view prostitution as a necessity to live.
Of course, Castro boasted
in 2001 that Cuban prostitutes had a “university level” education.
Some prostitutes go to school or work during the day and sell their bodies at night.
Grechell, 20, said she studies accounting and dreams of attending the University of Havana. But for now, she said she goes out with foreigners “because I need the
money.”Many Cubans earn just $10 or $12 per month. But prostitutes take in $500 and up, according to a 2002 University of Miami study.
Not all charge big fees, and some travelers brag they’ve had sex with Cuban women for as little as a meal or a pair of shoes. …
But we see which draws feminists’ ire. Aren’t both offensive? If only one, why the little jerk who profits every time you give him free advertising? Then again, to protest Castro, you’d have to reverse all your positions on the Cuban revolution and burn your stupid Ch? shirts, too. It’s hard to take the termagants seriously about the fratboy idiot when they gush about Castro.
