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“D.C. Madam” kills self?

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The “DC Madam” has committed suicide Does anybody else think that she may have been bumped off? Am I insane?

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  2. Whether she was killed, or killed herself – I think it is a sad reflection of two things:
    A. Sexism / power difference between men & women
    B. Sexual oppression/repression/shame

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    p>The fact that she may have felt so overwhelmed and ashamed of her actions that she would kill herself is a reflection of our sexually repressed and sexist society. And the same goes if she was killed by one of her male clients who was embarassed and ashamed.

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    p>I doubt you’d see this happen in the Netherlands where sex work is regulated and unionized.

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    p>We need to support sex workers and empower them to find a way out of that kind of work (if they want out) not tear them down.

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    p>Last night I saw 2 journalists laughing about this situation on MSNBC. I didn’t see journalists laughing when that Charles Heston Died, or any other man for that matter.

    • if it was actually suicide, i’d think it was because she was looking at 55 years in prison – live, essentially – not shame.  she never seemed ashamed of herself.

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      p>but i agree that our system is unjust.  david vitter is still making pay in the senate, and this woman gets 55 years for running the business he frequented.  sick.  whether she committed suicide or was murdered, she is a victim of our sick system that holds women accountable for what men feel are their own transgressions.

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      p>note that she is not the first person to “commit suicide” in this case.  one of her employees, a college professor whose name escapes me, did so about a year ago.

        • i’m confused.  this article and others says she faced 55 years.  can anyone explain the discrepancy?  

          • Often with these things, prosecutors pile up multiple related charges so that if you’re convicted of all of them, the maximum sentence can get quite long.  The article Frank linked said that she faced five or six years in prison, which is probably closer to what her actual sentence would have been.

    • Plenty, and I mean PLENTY of men have been killed to prevent them from squawking and bringing important people down.  I’m of the opinion this was not a suicide.  

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      p>Also, if our country did have legalized prostitution, I bet if there was a database of all the pols who were frequenting a particular establishment, they would not want their families all finding out, so it’s a moot point that our sex industry is black market.  

  3. On that same day, four Americans died in Iraq.  Would that the media cared a scintilla as much about our soldiers as about a sex scandal.

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