The reporting about the attractive young woman killed in Sydney by a nut a couple of days seemed odd to me from the start. I mean, no one thinks a sex worker deserves death, but most people (surely including the parents of such a good looking and apparently smart young woman) would feel it is shame, at least to some degree, that she did that to make money. Certainly I do - I'm one of the few people who strenuously objected to Pretty Women being a de facto glamorisation of prostitution at the time it came out.
But the reporting on this woman seemed to be overcompensating from the start to promote her as a fantastic person, loved by all, who travelled the world and just happened to make a living via prostitution (sorry, sex work.) And the print reporting has been full of warnings from some sex worker advocate telling people that she deserved to be able to work safely and without fear (duh) and people shouldn't look down on her because of how she made a legitimate living, etc etc.
It all seemed very much a case of the media trying to pre-empt anything less than fulsome praise for the women in every respect of her life - as if mere sympathy was not going to be enough.
As I say, I found it distinctly odd.
It didn't appear to be a faked event to me. But when things stand out as odd thats what you ought to be thinking. Because there are so many faked events going down these days. The witnesses and the boys that detained the crazy man didn't seem to be actors. But its possible that these fakers are finally getting better at their job? Still I don't make it that way this time around. Its a possibility that always needs careful consideration rather than your usual hysteria.
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