# The Bluestocking 345: Red Dots and Goalhanger  ## Metadata - Author: [[Helen Lewis]] - Full Title: The Bluestocking 345: Red Dots and Goalhanger - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Comedy is an amoral zone - URL: https://helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluestocking-345-red-dots-and - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > But he also finds another reason why store owners—many migrants themselves—went red this cycle: prostitution. I really haven’t seen this covered much elsewhere, but it’s just a hard fact that leftwing attempts to destigmatise and legitimise “sex work” often falter because people’s personal experience of living near brothels and red light districts is that their streets are now filled with scary men (pimps) and skeevy men (punters), and their kids have to walk past women with, as one person describes it here, “boobs out.” Here is another very fashionable position among college-educated liberals—and NGOs—that is unpopular with working-class voters, many of them from immigrant backgrounds. The question for the Democrats now is: who has to yield? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jd9n3hfb5pcqk4vrxkryqd4n))