Naturally Indignant

Ashley Dupré has returned as blogger-savant on the whoring condition, pointing out a little helpfully that all women exchange sex for something at least sometimes. After printing Dupré’s blog post in its entirety, the Post sent two reporters out on the street (which is definitely not the same metaphorical street where reporters go look for “prosties”) to ask ladies if all women are sort of prostitutes, too. “Most women, naturally, were indignant,” says Daily Intel blogger Jessica Pressler.

Were I stopped and questioned, all I’d get indignant about is being interrupted mid-Google Mapping my way around town (truth), or, if they just wanted my first name and age, getting denied proper attribution. But then, I’m a dirty whore and there is something, naturally, wrong with me.

Were you also unnaturally un-offended? You can borrow some huff from my own list of Other Careers Women Have The Right To Be Indignant About If Asked If They Have Ever Been A…:

• Flack. Because it is impossible to be the girl in lipstick at at any formal or informal gathering of tech types without some bright-eyed man asking, “Are you in PR?”
• Dating Columnist. Any woman who writes about sex also wants to make sure you get some!
• Marketer. See: Flack. And worse: “Twitter expert.”

We’ve all got a different bottom line. Mine is keeping myself in boots, coffee, and plane tickets without having to go on fake dates and keep an up-to-date Rolodex until the day I die. Maybe public relations really is a lot like high end escorting that way! Even so, I’d never insist you call your job anything but what it is: a living.