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	<title>Comments on: Caught Between the Tiger and the Crocodile</title>
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	<description>In defense of the sanctimonious women&#039;s studies set.</description>
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		<title>By: Grandpa Dinosaur</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199913</link>
		<dc:creator>Grandpa Dinosaur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Being a Cambodian woman is soo hard. It&#039;s hard, I hear so many stories about Cambodian women that just give up on life and become husks of their former selves or kill themselves due to scandal or shame. 

There&#039;s a Cambodian expression that &quot;White Cotton doesn&#039;t come clean ever again.&quot; My brother is a misogynist and he actually showed me an article to show me &quot;my place&quot; within Cambodian Society. That&#039;s the situation Cambodian Women are dealing with, and it&#039;s BS. Feminism should be working for Cambodian women, but these are the many cases that they fail women of colour. 

My sister-in-law is from an aristocratic family, and I can see the corruption, racism and classicism within her. In fact, she&#039;s afraid of all Black people with the exception of my co-conspirator, Davita Cuttita. I asked her if there was any poverty in Cambodia and she told me she didn&#039;t see anything. People continue to turn a blind eye on the poor and disadvantaged everywhere in the world.

Thank you for continuing to bring up issues for Women of Colour, I like Feminism but there are so many exceptions that exempt women of colour that I cannot condone the way Feminism runs now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being a Cambodian woman is soo hard. It&#8217;s hard, I hear so many stories about Cambodian women that just give up on life and become husks of their former selves or kill themselves due to scandal or shame. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s a Cambodian expression that &#8220;White Cotton doesn&#8217;t come clean ever again.&#8221; My brother is a misogynist and he actually showed me an article to show me &#8220;my place&#8221; within Cambodian Society. That&#8217;s the situation Cambodian Women are dealing with, and it&#8217;s BS. Feminism should be working for Cambodian women, but these are the many cases that they fail women of colour. </p>
<p>My sister-in-law is from an aristocratic family, and I can see the corruption, racism and classicism within her. In fact, she&#8217;s afraid of all Black people with the exception of my co-conspirator, Davita Cuttita. I asked her if there was any poverty in Cambodia and she told me she didn&#8217;t see anything. People continue to turn a blind eye on the poor and disadvantaged everywhere in the world.</p>
<p>Thank you for continuing to bring up issues for Women of Colour, I like Feminism but there are so many exceptions that exempt women of colour that I cannot condone the way Feminism runs now.</p>
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		<title>By: Restructure!</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199883</link>
		<dc:creator>Restructure!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post. It&#039;s so wrong when some women try to outlaw sex work, thinking that it&#039;s a feminist action.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post. It&#8217;s so wrong when some women try to outlaw sex work, thinking that it&#8217;s a feminist action.</p>
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		<title>By: peri9</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199830</link>
		<dc:creator>peri9</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the clarification. I know it sounds like a small problem but it really helps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the clarification. I know it sounds like a small problem but it really helps.</p>
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		<title>By: Saorla / SD</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199668</link>
		<dc:creator>Saorla / SD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for linking to me Latoya. It is a very important issue especially as I see the results of the policies very day. There is so much to say on the issue of sex work in Cambodia but I&#039;m rushing out the door so I&#039;ll expand on it later

@peri9

The title was chosen by the sex workers themselves. Cambodians use a lot of natural imagery partly because the vast majority are rural and partly because it is a cultural phenomenon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for linking to me Latoya. It is a very important issue especially as I see the results of the policies very day. There is so much to say on the issue of sex work in Cambodia but I&#8217;m rushing out the door so I&#8217;ll expand on it later</p>
<p>@peri9</p>
<p>The title was chosen by the sex workers themselves. Cambodians use a lot of natural imagery partly because the vast majority are rural and partly because it is a cultural phenomenon.</p>
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		<title>By: peri9</title>
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		<dc:creator>peri9</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I appreciate the inclusion of Asia on this blog, but how did you come up with the title? To me, it sounds like &quot;all those Asian people live in the jungle&quot;, but I&#039;m probably oversensative about these things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I appreciate the inclusion of Asia on this blog, but how did you come up with the title? To me, it sounds like &#8220;all those Asian people live in the jungle&#8221;, but I&#8217;m probably oversensative about these things.</p>
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		<title>By: Maria P.</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199533</link>
		<dc:creator>Maria P.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unfortunately, until the overall status of women improves, this kind of thing will just continue. Despite the hard work that women do to support their families and themselves, their entrepreneurial spirit and constant sacrifices, the menfolk come back home from a day of lazing and gambling to tell them that they&#039;re worthless because they&#039;re only women? (I&#039;m overgeneralizing here, obviously, but the acceptability of this dynamic was even expressed by my upper-middle class, business-school educated, multinational corporation assistant-to-the-CEO housemate.) I remember going to a Phnom Penh police station with her one time. The junior officer took one look at us, smirked, and went back to watching TV. Even the idea of tripling his monthly salary for signing a few forms wasn&#039;t worth the indignity.

Of course, when we brought her father, the head of the station himself came out, as courteous and respectful as could be, and invited him into his office for negotiations.

And if a businesswoman and a university lecturer were treated like that, you can just /imagine/ what it&#039;s like for a sex worker.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, until the overall status of women improves, this kind of thing will just continue. Despite the hard work that women do to support their families and themselves, their entrepreneurial spirit and constant sacrifices, the menfolk come back home from a day of lazing and gambling to tell them that they&#8217;re worthless because they&#8217;re only women? (I&#8217;m overgeneralizing here, obviously, but the acceptability of this dynamic was even expressed by my upper-middle class, business-school educated, multinational corporation assistant-to-the-CEO housemate.) I remember going to a Phnom Penh police station with her one time. The junior officer took one look at us, smirked, and went back to watching TV. Even the idea of tripling his monthly salary for signing a few forms wasn&#8217;t worth the indignity.</p>
<p>Of course, when we brought her father, the head of the station himself came out, as courteous and respectful as could be, and invited him into his office for negotiations.</p>
<p>And if a businesswoman and a university lecturer were treated like that, you can just /imagine/ what it&#8217;s like for a sex worker.</p>
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		<title>By: Jill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Weird, I think I&#039;m on your wavelength too, since I&#039;ve been mentally composing a post about sex tourism in Cambodia after seeing a good deal of it there a couple days ago. Thanks for this. My post probably won&#039;t be up for at least another week or two, but I&#039;ll definitely be tracking back...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Weird, I think I&#8217;m on your wavelength too, since I&#8217;ve been mentally composing a post about sex tourism in Cambodia after seeing a good deal of it there a couple days ago. Thanks for this. My post probably won&#8217;t be up for at least another week or two, but I&#8217;ll definitely be tracking back&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ren</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199487</link>
		<dc:creator>Ren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well, it is something that should be seen, so good on us then.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well, it is something that should be seen, so good on us then.</p>
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		<title>By: Latoya</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199483</link>
		<dc:creator>Latoya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Ren - 

I had a feeling we were going to post on the same thing :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Ren &#8211; </p>
<p>I had a feeling we were going to post on the same thing :-)</p>
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		<title>By: Ren</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/08/29/caught-between-the-tiger-and-the-crocodile/#comment-199480</link>
		<dc:creator>Ren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>heh, latoya, we&#039;re on the same wave-length...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>heh, latoya, we&#8217;re on the same wave-length&#8230;</p>
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