Talk:International Whores' Day
| This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the International Whores' Day article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
| Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
 | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=small}
Title edit
Is there some reason why the title uses the spelling "Internacional" instead of "International"? Eclecticology (talk) 07:32, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Should it be "Sex Workers' Day"? edit
I moved this briefly to "International Sex Workers Day", but decided it was better to leave it how it is and discuss it, since others call it "Whore's Day" in the revision history. I added the name of the day in German and Spanish.
In Spanish, days like this usually have de la and this can be rendered as of the in English, or the name can be changed to the possessive. I chose "International Day of the Sex Worker" as the translation in Spanish, because it doesn't sound that awkward. It is trabajadora, the feminine form, and I did point that out, because readers might find it interesting, even if it's interesting in a negative way.
In German, it's Hurentag, and I think that's where Whore's Day is from. "Whore" in English is offensive, though it sometimes is used in a positive, reclaiming way. If the day is known as Whore's Day in the English-speaking world, the article should say why that name is used despite the fact that it's usually an insulting term. If it's more properly called "Sex Workers' Day" then a move should be done, but I think it's best to have other opinions. Roches (talk) 22:14, 2 June 2015 (UTC)