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"The world just wouldn&amp;#39;t be normal if Joan Rivers weren&amp;#39;t offending someone, somewhere, right? The E! Fashion Police segment known as &amp;quot;Starlet or Streetwalker?&amp;quot; has recently come under fire, with more than 1,500 petitioners saying it should be axed from the show entirely.\nPinterestFacebookThe segment goes something like this: Joan shows a photo of a provocatively dressed woman with her face blocked out, then asks viewers to decide if she&amp;#39;s a starlet (AKA a celebrity who loves showing skin) or a streetwalker (as in, an actual working girl). The premise is supposed to be amusing, but Rachel Lloyd, the founder of Girls Education and Mentoring Services, doesn&amp;#39;t think there&amp;#39;s anything funny about it, and she took to The Huffington Post to explain her stance. &amp;quot;The panel, the studio audience and I&amp;#39;m sure the viewers watching at home laugh at these women and their &amp;#39;tacky, trashy clothing.&amp;#39; The first time I saw the segment, it took me a minute to realize that the women whose faces were covered up were actually real women in the sex industry. I then watched with growing discomfort as I realized that these women, poor women, desperate women, drug-addicted women, women under the control of a pimp, women who are victims of violence and exploitation, were being used to highlight wealthy celebrities&amp;#39; poor fashion choices. Haha. As their faces are covered, it&amp;#39;s unlikely that E! asked these women for consent to use their pictures. It&amp;#39;s also highly unlikely that anyone from E! did a background check to find out if all the pictures they&amp;#39;re using for comedy fodder are even of age. It&amp;#39;s unlikely, aside from any legal issues, that they care.&amp;quot;\nShe continues to say, &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m publicly asking the producers of Fashion Police, Joan Rivers and the panel to watch Very Young Girls, our documentary about the harsh realities of the lives of girls who&amp;#39;ve been trafficked for sex and whose courage, hope and humanity as they struggle to escape shines through in every scene. Perhaps after they watch it, the jokes about these women and girls will seem a little less funny.&amp;quot;\nThere&amp;#39;s now an online petition at change.org, which has been signed by nearly 1,500 people in support of ending the segment, according to The Cut. &amp;quot;The segment is not funny; it re-stigmatizes victims of commercial sexual exploitation and makes light of the catastrophic effects of the commercial sex industry,&amp;quot; the petition reads.\nHead over to the Huffington Post to read Rachel Lloyd&amp;#39;s full article, then tell us what you think. Do you think the segment is meant to be in good fun, and it&amp;#39;s being blown out of proportion? Or are you offended by the thought that sex workers are being exploited? Which side of the argument do you stand on? Discuss!\nPLUS...\n\nWhoa! A French company just introduced lingerie for 4-12 year olds. What gives?\n\nAND!\n\nIs this piano player&amp;#39;s outfit too racy for classical music? Let&amp;#39;s discuss.\n\nMore Ways to Get Glamour:\nChat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;#39;s schedule\nGet the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion\nCheck out our chic Tumblr!\nRead Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;#39;s now part of your subscription plan!\nLike freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nSign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#39;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise).\nAnd, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;#39;s the ultimate boredom buster.\nScreenshot: E!\nWant even more STF? Follow us on Twitter!\nLatest Tweets!\nFollow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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