[cardcoug]

I can only presume everybody on this thread also believes that the Band shouldn't have joked about the potato famine or polygamy or the spotted owl, either. Surely we're at least as opposed to the demonization of Irish famine victims, Mormon sects and innocent woodfowl as we are sex workers. Though it appears from the website linked by BigAppleBucky that Kelly isn't a worker but a hobbyist, since the $600 that changes hands is merely a donation rather than a price.

I think there's a very big difference between all of your examples and the current case, namely none of them involved singling out a particular individual and shaming her. I'm not trying to make a point about political correctness, but rather about not being cruel to one particular person on a very public stage.

[cardcoug]

I can only presume everybody on this thread also believes that the Band shouldn't have joked about the potato famine or polygamy or the spotted owl, either. Surely we're at least as opposed to the demonization of Irish famine victims, Mormon sects and innocent woodfowl as we are sex workers. Though it appears from the website linked by BigAppleBucky that Kelly isn't a worker but a hobbyist, since the $600 that changes hands is merely a donation rather than a price.

I think there's a very big difference between all of your examples and the current case, namely none of them involved singling out a particular individual and shaming her. I'm not trying to make a point about political correctness, but rather about not being cruel to one particular person on a very public stage.