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Why not have literal whores become politicians?
Directional whoring is pretty much the overtly default career of young (and not so young) women in the West. They dress skimpily, date industriously, engage in serial monogamy, and are not at all averse to material benefits resulting from these activities. Many women very aggressively argue that all sexual practices and all sexual conduct that does not harm any one party without their consent is nominally okay, and if you listen closely you'll notice that the valence of such conduct is actually considered very positive. That they sometimes turn around and viciously shame individual women for their promiscuity or sexual practices or material benefits derived from either seems more like pokerfaced opportunism than ideological inconsistency.
At the same time, politicians are widely known to be the scum of the earth. Eternally corrupt, consummate liars, shameless hypocrites, will sell out your country for a handful of cash and will ruin your life's work out of sheer incompetence. At best they're naive idealists who produce policy catastrophe after administration catastrophe, but let's face it, when people think "politician", they think either of morally bankrupt sociopaths looking to line their own pockets or of rabid ideologues aiming to stroke their egoes. Natural selection among politicians selects for the ability to out-smear your opponents, not for any sort of object-level competence or moral stature. Politicians are, by necessity, cheats and liars and if they weren't they wouldn't survive.
So why not have whores becomes politicians? Do we lose anything by this happening?
“Directional whoring?” That’s ridiculous and insulting.
None of my half-dozen female cousins are whoring themselves out. None have any overlap between their careers and their relationships.
That’s not because they’re all following the same script, either. One’s an accountant, another works for the government. A third got pregnant in college, but married the guy and started a stable family. She only has a job now that the kid is in school. Not exactly a gold digger.
What’s your justification for insulting the modal Western woman?
With all due respect, they probably won't have many problems keeping you in the dark about if they are indeed doing so after all.
Then it’s not much of a “default career,” is it?
I think you’re defending the motte to Southkraut’s bailey.
Let's see the original claim:
For the sake of argument, would you realistically know about it if any of your female cousins did engage in such things?
Isn't "you can't know that it's not happening" more of an anti-argument; a discussion-stopper?
Again, I'm asking you to consider the social reality of living in modernity. If a woman engages in activities that she wants to keep private from men in her social circle who aren't their husband or long-term boyfriend, she can do so with little effort because the women in her social circle who do know about it, she can generally count on to assist her in this.
Okay, but what do we do with that? Where do we go from here? Shrug and move on to other topics?
You move on but keep it in mind.
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