has some questions surrounding the “sex worker community” — mainly why it’s referred to as the “sex worker community.” The host of HBO’s took some time during his “New Rules” segment to exclaim, “Whores are having a moment.” “You gotta give me more than a week to get used to a new word or phrase or name for what we call something,” Maher began.
“We did this with homeless until it was unhoused. We did this with illegal alien until it was undocumented migrant. We did this with midget until it was, ‘How dare you, we say little people now.
’ And now we’re doing it with prostitute. I don’t know if you saw the Academy Awards this year, but I’m just gonna say it: whores are having a moment.” The comedian was referencing the -directed film , which earlier this month, including and , who plays a young stripper from Brooklyn.
During Baker and Madison’s acceptance speeches, they both took a moment to “recognize and honor the sex worker community.” “Wow, three weeks ago it was a bunch of hoes and now it’s a community,” Maher said in response on the latest episode of . He proceeded to question, “If it’s such an important liberal cause” not to use the term prostitutes, “why didn’t you do it 10 years ago or 20 or in 1975?” “A few years ago, the ran a story about a paramedic who couldn’t make ends meet and so started an OnlyFans to pay her bills, and then got publicly shamed for it.
And Congresswoman [Alexandria] Ocasio-Corte.
