Dear Editor,
Re: “Sex work allowed ... in a turtle neck,“ Opinion, Feb. 10.
While I am happy that you revisited your story from a couple of months ago about sex work in Richmond, I am even more delighted that SWAN Vancouver had its say.
I can’t provide better insight than they, but when I read the original article I felt like I had been transported back to Smalltown, Alabama, in the 1950s.
The sophomoric, one-sided language in that article was outdone only by this tautology in your editorial last week: “Besides, if we presented a stereotype, it’s one that’s widely held.”
If I was teaching a journalism course, you’d have been failed for that story and expelled.
I agree, we’re decades — even centuries — past having a “grown-up conversation” about sex work.
Sadly, the Richmond News set the tone of such a conversation back by several decades.
I further agree that you should report “something that was happening publicly in our community.”
But really? An angry spouse rises above the level of “dog bites man”?
Craig Hartnett
RICHMOND
