if you want a better understanding of sex work from a leftist perspective i highly recommend “Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights”, written by sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith.
I interned on a project to inform a legislature about sex work and policing therein. One paper that has always stuck with me is called "agency is everywhere, but agency isn't enough".
one of my main takeaways from it is that we need to work on improving material conditions, and not on punching down
"social justice" can wrap around to being a new sort of social control when it starts demanding that people (ex. women) act a certain way (ex. go into stem fields, avoid selling sex, never be a housewife etc etc)
stigmatizing people who are making the best choices they can is just fucked up
"…but if it is true the only true life I have is the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to someone -- for eight hours a day; for their particular use -- on the presumptions that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition. Fat chance!"
The rollercoaster of her online career is both something that befuddles and upsets me in equal manner. It doesn't matter how you do something, how good you are at it, how much work you put into marketing, how appealing the work is.
If incels want to hate and harass someone, they simply will.
Nah, I'm just a big mad incel because for some reason, no one is willing to pay money for jars of Clinical Trial Manager Bath Water, no matter how aggressively I try to sell it on Instagram. 😠
I still remember reading Neverwhere, when a character informed the hapless protagonist that she sells her body...and has to gently correct his misapprehension by clarifying that she is a *bodyguard*.
Permanently tilted my worldview by a few degrees there.
Fine: The reason these so-called conservatives hate sex work is they are opposed to workers controlling the means of reproduction. The reason incels want to seize women is because they think they're the proletariat and that's what seizing them means.
As I said, terrible.
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i’m probs not the right person to write a thread on that, but “revolting prostitutes” helps unpack this topic & more.
one of my main takeaways from it is that we need to work on improving material conditions, and not on punching down
stigmatizing people who are making the best choices they can is just fucked up
If incels want to hate and harass someone, they simply will.
Permanently tilted my worldview by a few degrees there.
Person: Sex work is bad because \_\_\_\_\_\_.
Me: Yeah, you're right, working in fast food is that.
holy shit
As I said, terrible.