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Girl power! Kind of? Women and sex trafficking

February 13, 2009

So, you know how there’s this whole market for trafficking women for sex?  Well, apparently, in a reversal of roles, women are now targeting men for sex and acting as their pimps. The first international report into the scope of human trafficking, published yesterday, found a disproportionate number of female perpetrators, more than in any other crime, selling other women into slavery in countries including Australia. My first question is obviously how the study was designed, statistics, outliers, r squared ...

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Kiva: The White Person’s Dream

February 4, 2009

(from the Ranan Lurie Competition, 2006) As a white person, I am obligated by White People Law to love social justice.  This includes hopefully singlehandedly fixing the Russian economy, which is pretty much based on natural gas and vodka, and striving to improve the lives of people in third world countries in general.  This desire stems primarily from having come from a third world country and also from my 10th grade World Cultures teacher, Mrs. Bej.  When we learned about ...

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