tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post4108727504658476141..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: "Thrifty pampering tactics"Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-72615556436344804522013-08-22T10:54:16.708-04:002013-08-22T10:54:16.708-04:00Britta,
"prostitutes cum manicurists"
...Britta,<br /><br />"prostitutes cum manicurists"<br /><br />Gah!<br /><br />But yes, point taken - the figures are apparently off. And the result is going to be xenophobia-as-good-deed. And, like I said, who's to say the average British manicure-getter can even tell which Southeast Asian (or Asian) people are Vietnamese? (Or, for that matter, who's Danish vs. Finnish vs. Serbian...) I mean, who knows? Maybe Korean manicurists in NYC are actually trafficked Vietnamese-British sex slaves! Point being, the xenophobia will likely trickle down to various other populations with even less to do with this than undocumented-but-not-trafficked Vietnamese manicurists.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-6055122992505060962013-08-22T03:31:13.688-04:002013-08-22T03:31:13.688-04:00*deprive, not provide*deprive, not provideBrittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02224221011978374915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-83476922587496816432013-08-22T03:30:16.364-04:002013-08-22T03:30:16.364-04:00Reading more of the comments, it turns out that ar...Reading more of the comments, it turns out that article is BS. The claim is that there are at minimum 70,000 trafficked Vietnamese prostitutes cum manicurists, but according to a human rights report, there are a total of 10,000 trafficked individuals in the EU. Even given the latter number may be low, there is no way that Vietnamese manicurists in the UK secretly make up 7 times the number of trafficked people total. People doubt the number of Vietnamese migrants total (100,000), but the article is implying illegal = trafficked women, which there is no evidence for. Rather, the article condones boycotting nail salons run by Vietnamese people simply because some of them may be trafficked, but this just seems like a way to discriminate against Vietnamese manicurists and provide legitimate people of work based on their national origin. Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02224221011978374915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-47542507838917085552013-08-20T15:53:55.021-04:002013-08-20T15:53:55.021-04:00Oh, absolutely re: tipping b/c the pay is low. (Pa...Oh, absolutely re: tipping b/c the pay is low. (Part of why it's a crappy job!) What I meant - and I now see I expressed it awkwardly - was that it's like tipping in a restaurant in the States - it's part of paying, but it's not an acknowledgement that the worker you're paying is a <i>slave</i>, which... you'd tend to assume they're not. Guilt is involved, in a way, but not on that scale.<br /><br />But it's certainly disturbing to think that one could tip well and the money <i>still</i> wouldn't go to the manicurist. (Slaves, I'm assuming, don't get to keep their tips.) Which is part of why the 'women are frivolous and stingy' angle gets to me here. Plenty of women may well be tipping on cheap manicures, and inadvertently supporting trafficking that much more.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-6607483551633383582013-08-20T15:40:21.160-04:002013-08-20T15:40:21.160-04:00The guilt-tip that follows (in the States, at leas...<i>The guilt-tip that follows (in the States, at least) is more about tipping being customary, or about this seeming like a particularly crappy job, than any deeper sense that one is somehow mitigating a great wrong (let alone inadvertently giving additional money to human traffickers).</i><br /><br />Actually, this (the crappy wages, not the trafficking, which I knew nothing of) is <i>exactly</i> why I tip big when I get my nails done in the United States. Because, given the low low price of an NYC manicure, I assume my tip is the only money the woman serving me is going to take home that hour or so. Rachelhttp://rachelhills.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.com