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Pieces Of Mee: KONY 2012: Causing more harm than good.

pomee:

Dear Jason Russell,

After being bombarded with your KONY 2012 crusade, I have no choice but to respond to your highly inaccurate, offensive, and harmful propaganda. I realized I had to respond in hopes of stopping you before you cause more violence and deaths to the Acholi people (Northern…

If you are in any way involved or swayed by KONY2012, as I was for all of twelve hours, please read this to educate yourself.

I jumped the bandwagon without knowing enough about where it was heading.

Kony2012

Feminist Disney: "Just for the record" :discussion of porn

everythingbutharleyquinn:

yiggady:

everythingbutharleyquinn:

feministdisney:

kissmyarsenic:

I’m a feminist, but I’ve never understood the argument about porn exploiting women. I think Kimota-sage and I had this argument once and I slapped him lololol. Yeah that was wrong…but he said he didn’t even feel it. XD…

I really feel the need to add my two cents here. Feministdisney, I respect you for what you do and your thought-out statements, but I disagree with you on the matter of sex workers. I don’t consider it a job like every other because of the issues and trauma that can be sustained by the “employed”, counting intimacy problems, abuse (from limits being slighted over-stepped, to grossly over-stepped), humiliation, sexually transmitted deseases, depression, and more. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens against harmful employment, which is why, for instance, working with asbestos is illegal, and it is by these standards that being a sex worker should be illegal as well. Like everythingbyharleyquinn, there will be those who will not suffer the averse consequences of being a sex worker, as not everybody becomes ill who works with asbestos - but, here it is necessary to be aware of the would-be victims, and consider their rights to be protected over the rights of the minority who would would be perfectly fine.

Don’t buy into any illusions about the life of sex workers. Many, many, many of them lead lives in which they face rape, psychological trauma, drug abuse, and so much more. As long as working as a sex worker is legal, the illusion is continually legitimized, which is by the way also how men justify buying sex from sex slaves - by pretending that’s not what they do, and it’s all good, she chose to be here. 

You.

YOU.

Have. NO. idea about my life. My choices. My experiences. ANYTHING.

OR THAT OF MY FRIENDS AND PEERS.

The fact you assume that because I have a computer and can type some long sentences that I’m automatically some super-duper awesome privileged sex worker and always have been is CLASSIST. ABLEIST. AND WHOREPHOBIC.

The only thing you DO have an idea about, it seems, is the most stereotyped, tragedy-porn, cliche, hackneyed, abuse-fetishising BULLSHIT narrative puked up by the ignorant and the paternalistic in order to claim control over sex worker’s lives, to reduce us to pity-party victims, devoid of agency, autonomy and ability to make decisions regarding OUR OWN LIVES.

THAT? IS SUPREMELY FUCKING ANTI-FEMINIST.

And I have no qualms about ripping you a new one here, because the condescension that drips from your comment actually has made me choke on my own bile. Get off your smug self-righteous hobby horse AND SHUT THE FUCK. UP. ABOUT THAT WHICH YOU KNOW NOTHING.

YOU? DO NOT GET TO DECIDE IF IT’S A JOB LIKE ANY OTHER OR NOT.

THAT’S FOR US TO DECIDE.

YOU? DO NOT GET TO DECIDE WHAT ABOUT OUR LIFE IS ILLUSIONARY.

THAT’S FOR US TO DECIDE.

If you cannot see how utterly patronising, vile and controlling what you said was, then you need to just step out of this conversation altogether. Because YOUR WORDS ARE DAMAGING.

You are contributing to already widely-held, FALSE ideas about what it means to be a sex worker. And that contributes to DISCRIMINATION AND STIGMA that enables continued abuse and violation of our lives.

The sex worker activist movement IS LED by workers who have, amongst OTHER things, experienced drug addiction, homelessness, abuse, rape… both within and outside of the sex industry. WE KNOW that the discrimination and stigmatisation of society contributes more wholly to any bad working environment we have to endure than the work itself.

CHARACTERISING THE SEX INDUSTRY AS INHERENTLY VIOLENT IS MISOGYNISTIC AND VICTIM-BLAMING as it ignores the fact that violence is institutionalised within our culture and a lot more needs to be done to unpack that than regulate the sex industry.

AND HOW FUCKING DARE YOU. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU CHARACTERISE SEX WORKERS AS VECTORS OF DISEASE!!

OMG. YOU IGNORANT POS. REALLY.

SEX WORKERS HAVE THE BEST SEXUAL HEALTH OUT OF THE POPULATION. HERE YOU JUST PROVE ONCE AGAIN HOW LITTLE YOU ACTUALLY KNOW. CAN YOU SHUT UP? JUST SHUT UP.

First of all, I’m not assuming you’re a “super-duper awesome privileged sex worker” because you have a computer and can type sentences. I assumed you had not been adversely affected by your choice of work because you seemed to speak of it so highly. Naturally those are different things, okay?

In fact, I AM NOT VICTIMIZING YOU. I am pointing out that there ARE victims of the industry, there are those who suffer greatly. Whether by chosing to be a sex worker and having a bad experience, or by being forced into sex slavery because the industry exist, and is continually allowed to exist.

Listen, obviously whatever my knowledge about the environment is, it will forever be dwarfed by yours. But there are statistics, and research, and voices from those who are or have been involved in sex work that testement to the fact that VICTIMS EXIST within the industry who are deeply scarred by what they have experienced. Isn’t it true?

It IS my impression that those aversely affected make up the majority of the bunch, but if I’m wrong about that, I can accept that. I just don’t see anything wrong or anti-feminist in working towards giving those who DO suffer from the industry better conditions. I think women are equipped to handle a tremendous amount of suffering, but I’m sorry if they would have to, especially if unnecessary. 

If you want to call me out on being focused on those who do suffer, as opposed to the rights of the majority or minority who don’t, then go ahead and rip me a new one, although if you want to change my mind, yelling names at me in caps lock is a little off-putting. I’m sorry if I was so thoroughly in the wrong, but I was actually trying to be respectful, and was mindful to use the term sex worker in stead of prostitution after reading your comment to Feministdisney. IT IS FINE that you disagree with me and want to change my mind, but try and recognise that I am not speaking out of ill will towards you or your choices or your capability of taking care of yourself. My comment was not aimed at you AT ALL (in fact, it was a direct reply to Feministdisney), but concerned those who are victims, who do suffer, as a result of the industry. THEY EXIST - I may not know as much as you on this subject, but this I’ll stand by, until led to believe otherwise.

Feminist Disney: "Just for the record" :discussion of porn

everythingbutharleyquinn:

feministdisney:

kissmyarsenic:

I’m a feminist, but I’ve never understood the argument about porn exploiting women. I think Kimota-sage and I had this argument once and I slapped him lololol. Yeah that was wrong…but he said he didn’t even feel it. XD…

I really feel the need to add my two cents here. Feministdisney, I respect you for what you do and your thought-out statements, but I disagree with you on the matter of sex workers. I don’t consider it a job like every other because of the issues and trauma that can be sustained by the “employed”, counting intimacy problems, abuse (from limits being slighted over-stepped, to grossly over-stepped), humiliation, sexually transmitted deseases, depression, and more. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens against harmful employment, which is why, for instance, working with asbestos is illegal, and it is by these standards that being a sex worker should be illegal as well. Like everythingbyharleyquinn, there will be those who will not suffer the averse consequences of being a sex worker, as not everybody becomes ill who works with asbestos - but, here it is necessary to be aware of the would-be victims, and consider their rights to be protected over the rights of the minority who would would be perfectly fine.

Don’t buy into any illusions about the life of sex workers. Many, many, many of them lead lives in which they face rape, psychological trauma, drug abuse, and so much more. As long as working as a sex worker is legal, the illusion is continually legitimized, which is by the way also how men justify buying sex from sex slaves - by pretending that’s not what they do, and it’s all good, she chose to be here. 

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