Well well well, no reply from Rachel firecracker then? what an almighty SURPRISE!!!

Maybe she's given up on her lowly, dull, poorly paid office job and put a profile on AW?
She's probably too busy to reply 
R xx

Maybe she's given up on her lowly, dull, poorly paid office job and put a profile on AW?
She's probably too busy to reply 
R xx

She picked a fantastic working name 

I've just had an email from these people, saying pretty much the same as the OP. I'm not requiring business skills training, I have a pretty good idea the ones I have are transferrable, there is some other training I require perhaps they'll fund that?

Only joking.

I can see where you are coming from Amy, and I agree, although I think she has ruffled a few feathers to say the least, including mine. People will naturally respond in this way, as what OP has said is quite offensive.

Oh, it's not the feather-ruffled ones that are the problem (even if I was too knackered to be ruffled).

I'm talking about the sniping about the OP's lack of response (and we can hardly blame her for not wanting to waste any more of her time), the inevitable suggestion she should become a prostitute in order to make programmes about prostitutes (which we get virtually every time and always makes me wonder how people think history programmes work) and off topic attempts at humour which do not address and have nothing to do with the thread starter.

Basically, anything that makes us look dim, overexcited, flippant and/or smug, especially when ladies have made thoughtful posts earlier in the thread to point out that we're not.

Back on topic.

Well one thread on a small forum's hardly going to change the world either way.

But if we act like twats, we really don't have any room to complain when people (and especially non-industry people) like the OP continue to treat us like twats. It's more than possible to address this sort of banal, mindless rubbish sensibly and without returning to the playground, and it's equally possible to ignore it if we dont have anything useful to add.

Once again, back on topic please.

I have just had an email from them on AW asking me if I would be interested in doing this programme and being trained in fashion and having our own label so we can sell our designs etc. 
I suppose the label will be something like, Hooker designs, or happy hooker.

I did email back and say that perhaps they should be targetting people with little or no education who do need help gaining work experience and careers. 
I did also say I was quite annoyed that she has already decided that I and many others do this work as we cannot do anything else and that I find that quite short sighted and she should perhaps try thinking for herself instead of following media hype.

I also said perhaps if she had to use escorts in a rpogramme she did a very boring one that was against media views and had a factual programme about why we do this work.  I.e no drugs, no pimps and by our own choice
As of yet no reply

To me she is yet another media vulture hoping to make money off our backs by showing how needy and useless we are and that is why we have to do sex work.