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This article is a response to a series of articles published by Feminism in India, titled “Why is Sex Work Not Seen As Work? – Part 1” and “Why is Sex Work Not Work? Lessons Learnt From Sex Workers’ Rights Movement – Part 2”
Earlier this year, a panel of survivors of prostitution spoke at the launch of Julie Bindel’s book, The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth. One of them was Sabrina Valisce, from New Zealand, a woman who had exited the sex-trade. Rahila Gupta, covering the event for the Feminist Current, wrote,
“During the panel, Valisce explained that she rejects the term, “sex worker,” because it glosses over the “sucking and fucking” she had to do. She described her daily routine of standing around for 12-17 hour shifts, wearing only lingerie and six-inch heels, waiting to be chosen by men who would come in…
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“The fact that in transland, in queerspeak, these realities are never discussed is evidence of how anti-woman the trans/queer movement actually is. Instead of discussing what it’s like to be a girl in a patriarchy, we offer “fixes” to girls who are acutely aware of how fucked up it feels to be female. And it’s not our femaleness, our female bodies that really need to be fixed: it’s the culture, stupid.
A society that truly supports women and girls does not tell girls and women to “fix themselves” by “becoming men.” A society that is truly for girls and women does not encourage its rightfully freaked out daughters to suffocate themselves with binders lest their female body parts be recognized for what they are. A society that nurtures women and girls does not tell women and girls that if they long to exist outside the stereotypes, or don’t identify with gendered commodities, they are secretly men. A society that cares about women and girls does not pathologize and medicalize and capitalize on our fears about being female in a culture that wantonly, unapologetically hates us.”
What.
Is.
Up?
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the blog because, to be perfectly honest, 1) I have a fulfilling life outside of contemplating these issues (shocking, I know) and 2) I was burnt the fuck out writing on these issues.
That said. Here I am. Again.
Honestly, if I continue to post, I don’t want to post anymore about all the men who have ladybrains. I honestly don’t care about men, and am more interested in what the dumpsterfire of queer/trans ideology is doing to girls and women – because I really care about girls and women.
So today, a local Pride group shared a Buzzfeed article celebrating the wonders of chest binding. (I’m not linking to the video, but you can give it a Google if you’re so inclined.)
Now, some of the subjects (all female) in the video claimed that chest binding made…
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Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry women? It is the music of a people that will not be slaves again! Go Ireland, Go Rights for Females. :)
Ireland voted in a landslide to support abortion rights. But making abortion care available will take much more.
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To Isolde Carmody, Ireland’s overwhelming vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution was a vote to continue down the road that her great-grand-uncle, Joseph Plunkett, and his contemporaries fought for in 1916, in the first steps toward an independent Irish Republic.
“Joe was definitely a feminist, a revolutionary. He deeply believed…
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There are four lights…
It’s amusing to watch liberal feminists and sex industry advocates tie themselves into semantic knots, because they want to, at the same time, condemn ‘incel’ rhetoric, while still supporting the sex industry. Meghan Murphy at Feminist Current has, of course, got there first with a first class radical feminist analysis: This week, the liberal feminist […]
via Sex isn’t a commodity! Except when it is! — Anti-Porn Feminists
Greetings, and a Good-Day to all of you. It’s story time.
These posts are scheduled, so I’m actually writing this one Sunday ago, but I need to get this down for the Sunday Disservice while it still fresh in mind.
My choir rented one of our downtown churches to perform in for our classical concert (check out the Friday Musical Interlude for the pieces). We performed quite well, the Mass went very well and Rhineberger’s Stabat Mater really brought down the house. Our story however begins post concert, after the reception, after most of the people and clean up crew had left the building.
I was helping with the final security check of the chapel and sanctuary, making sure doors were locked and the corresponding lights turned off and what not. Then toward the front of the church I notice something like this hanging in the corner.
Now being the fire safety conscious type I see danger in leaving a flame unattended overnight. So I take the candle down and blow it out. I return the candle to the holder only to see my choir director smiling at me with a somewhat surreptitious grin on her face.
She was like, “Arb, I’m pretty sure you were supposed to leave that candle burning…” and of course her grin gets bigger. And me I’m like, “Whaaat? Unattended candles are a fire-hazard…”.
Being an atheist and having avoided the church scene for the majority of my life has left me startling ignorance of all the wacky rituals that go down within the hallowed churchy halls that I just finished singing in (great acoustics though). Anyhow, the Deacon comes in and is like well what happened here?
Let me tell you upfront and right now that ‘the eternal flame of Jesus’ and ‘unattended fire hazard’ are indistinguishable to the atheist eye. So yes, I had just extinguished the eternal flame of the Savior in his own church no less.
*Awkward silence* – Well at least I knew why my conductor was grinning so broadly. So, then “I’m sorry” became the header of my next twenty sentences, as we went into the storage room to get some matches to relight the eternal flame of Jesus. It was funny, we just kept on going with the final sweep of the church, nothing was said, as we locked up and then said our good-byes.
So, I’m not sure how to chalk this one up? Do atheistic actions taken in ignorance count toward the cause? I mean, its not every day that one can claim to have extinguished the eternal flame of jesus and live to tell the tale. :) (On a humanistic note, I do feel bad as the Deacon is a choir acquaintance, and was instrumental in the set-up and hosting of our concert and messing up her rituals isn’t cool).
Perhaps the moral of the story is that Eternal Flames of Jesus need a label so fire safety conscious atheists don’t go around extinguishing him. :)
Oh, hey there kinksters. Your progressive nature is showing…
TRIGGER WARNING for explicit and disturbing content
My first hour on Fetlife and I was already finding predatory behavior. I went on to start and contribute in discussions and some of the things I heard people saying made my stomach turn. There are things that the website claims to ban, but it’s obvious they don’t enforce it. Incest, beastiality, and pedophilia are not allowed but the forums are littered with discussions about these fetishes. There are members who point out that the website doesn’t really enforce their rules all the time. I’m just going to make a list of comments and discussions I actually saw on here, and I saved them to my computer so these are word-for-word.
- There is a forum for people who get turned on by actual news stories of rape. “Documentaries about sex trafficking are just the best. Not only do you get tearful interviews with…
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