• couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Sorry but whenever I hear this wording, I always imagine the porn lobby had a meeting one day to decide on a better word for ‘meat’ and they ended up on ‘talent’

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      2 days ago

      It’s standard film & television terminology. Not everyone sees sex work as demeaning, you know.

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        1 day ago

        probably because “talent” is more specific:

        that would be like “why not call them dogs?” when talking about poodles…yes, it’s technically correct, but not really representative, is it?

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          Depends on what the circumstances are. But it’s more of a reminder that while some of the talent in the arts are super rich they are still laborers.