Upon urging people only to research further and posting an article by a sex worker who had done a two year study, I am immediately set upon by the resident "Disclosure Police". The writer is impugned by Blanc as she ruminates about who is paying the writer (paying the "worker") as though the sex worker movement is funded (which it's not) and the rescue industry is not (which it is). No, ignore the sex worker and let's favour the narrative that has been mediated by US (& UN) policy. On what basis she objects to the writer I am not sure, but make a note that Blanc is probably whorephobic and doesn't like the slant because the writer disclosed she was a sex worker. I take this bias personally - feeling Othered, negated, blanked out and feel further insulted that I am indirectly being accused of trying "silence victims" by posting the piece. Then a passage about how the anti-trafficking movement cherry picks topics to highlight its pet causes is then cherry picked by Blanc to go on to portray an important issue, but also use to accuse me of trying to silence victims (that really hurts). Listening to victims. Sure. The issue is suppressed, needs to highlighted, brought out into the open. Yes, I agree. What I don't agree with, is the war on trafficking and the way its being prosecuted. Willow goes on to reinforce that patriarchal power by invoking an incendiary term like "anti-trafficking", a war term, then comes some story involving people from the rescue industry and the UN. At once, I sense zealotry, we are possibly at an impasse already - and realise I am facing a potential enemy. An anti-trafficker. So yeah, I see red. I don't see why these two have the right to invoke and benefit from the war machine, the bias against sex workers and deep misogyny. invoking the violence that implies and that *I* shouldn't be allowed to use verbal blunt force. When all I was saying was dig deeper, look at the evidence. I was upset that they were taking the patriarchy's word over mine or any woman's.
Parel, you made unjustified assumptions about me and others and replied to the totem of those assumptions, not to the argument, or the person. It is always possible to ask for further clarification. This paragraph rather undermines the apology at the end of your post so I don't know what to think. This bit
On what basis she objects to the writer I am not sure, but make a note that Blanc is probably whorephobic and doesn't like the slant because the writer disclosed she was a sex worker.
is far enough off beam to derail discussion.
) but it's so weird and new to see people who I've known for years as outspoken critics of not just slavery, but also of imperialist aggression being lashed out at as ignorant enablers--or worse. And when Project Willow--a survivor and activist--was attacked, I wasn't sure that anything I could say here would be welcome. But parel has apologized and toned down the rhetoric and today especially I needed to post about the way that home-grown 1st world systems of sexual enslavement are almost entirely ignored by just about everyone. Perhaps parel is so new here that she's unaware that there are a number of survivors of cult and/or govt. funded, intelligence agency-run abuse rings who read and sometimes post here. I'm a survivor of such a system and, when I've approached high-profile activists to ask that they acknowledge that ordinary Americans of all sexes and races are being systematically exploited sexually via traumatic sexual abuse-induced dissociation and programming, 
