Save the Waitresses

Bill Picton—pig farmer,
serial killer of sex workers

Imagine if every few years the authorities found the bodies of murdered waitresses in a ditch, along the banks of a river, or on a pig farm. There would be an outcry. Lawmakers would investigate and reform the restaurant industry. We wouldn’t allow psychopaths to prey on our vulnerable women. We would make the world safe for waitresses. But enough imagining. The fact is that the women who wind up in those ditches or ground into pig food are not waitresses but sex workers. There’s no outcry because the people don’t much care what happens to “dirty whores”. Maybe we should cry out.