Dear Jessica Van Sack of the Boston Herald…

Hello Jessica!

I read your “article” entitled “Undercover ‘John’ takes on trannies, pimps” on the website for the Boston Herald. It was widely circulated after you succeeded to piss off the LGBTQ community starting with your opening line “James Fong has been trapped inside houses of ill repute by giant naked trannies… ” And the transphobia didn’t stop there.

Geez, Jessica? Could this article be anymore terrible? It’s salacious and ignorance portrait of sex work and transgender sex workers, I feel like I am reading a tabloid. Or the NY Post! Did you not realize as you typed away you were being lascivious and derogatory? Hard day at the office? Do you have a repressed sexual desire you want to share with the group?

“Fong arranges a meeting through a pimp who’s inevitably at the other end of an ad. The pimp will direct him to an apartment or hotel, wherever the call girls have set up their brothel. ” I mean… COME ON! If you just wanted to use the words “pimp” “call girls” and “brothel” in the same sentence, you have other options besides this sentence. Did you realize a huge percent of your readers might have had experiences soliciting sex, and might be laughing at your attempt for 101? Did you realize the Boston Herald might have advertisers who identify as queer, transgender, or have half a brain to see your article is tasteless and trash?

I understand you are new to journalism, and I am sure you are frustrated with a journalist entry level job as a court reporter. I am sure you cannot wait to get out of this low rung staff job, and I can see you are willing to write anything to do it. I ask you, how low are you willing to go?

Listen Jess… can I call you Jess? You are cute, I see your little picture up there next to the article. You are young, blonde, you can write (when you aren’t spreading transphobia I think you have real talent), I am sure you have a huge student loan to pay off…. ever consider sex work??? I don’t think you belong in newspapers.

You could channel your pseudo erotica into your advertising, or write a revealing tell-all book about your life as a call girl after you pay off your loans in six months. I think you would like it. It’s safer than court reporting, you don’t have those bosses at the Herald who grope at you, and you can make your own hours so you will have all the time in the world to do what you really want to do…. write. Think about it. You don’t have to listen to police scanners to see an accurate portrayal of the work. Just open your eyes to the world.

One more thing: Stop disrespecting our transgendered sex workers by making a mockery of their viable career choice. You only wish transgender sex workers were cop drama extras. In reality, they have more suitors, more money, and more femininity than us bio girls can muster. So stop hating. You of all people should know “a girls got to make a living”.

Love, kittenINFINITE

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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) are encouraging people to contact the Boston Herald and ask editors to apologize for the paper’s offensive slurs and sensationalistic coverage of transgender people and sex workers.

See the full press release here.

CALL THE BOSTON HERALD!

Boston Herald Contacts:
Jessica Van Sack
City Reporter
jvansack@bostonherald.com
(617) 619-6461

Joe Dwinell
City Executive Co-Editor
jdwinell@bostonherald.com
(617) 619-6177

Kevin Convey
Editor in Chief
kconvey@bostonherald.com
(617) 619-6403

New Hobbyist Blog

I’ve been following this guy’s blog, Sexhobbyist.com, for a little while and he seems to divide his time fairly evenly between escorts and strippers.   There’s an insightful interview with an escort in it this week.  I think he should be added the Hobbyists Blogs list.  I like it when clients use the head located on top of their necks.