I’m a queer trans woman, and consequently I exist in spaces where positivity about “sex work” is compulsory. It is very tiresome. God help you if you decide to point out that being a sex slave for rent as a day job seems dehumanizing or horrific, because that’s not very progressive of you!
Kind of shocking and ridiculous that these so called feminists fret endlessly over misogynistic messaging in media, the objectification and commodification of women’s bodies, and sexual exploitation in workplaces, but turn into free market libertarians over the distillation of this violence into an industry apart.
All jobs involve selling your body!
No they don’t! I work in a factory. It’s not always pleasant, but when we say “corporate is really bending us over on this overtime,” this is at least a metaphor. My legs hurt from working twenty days in a row, but no one raped me. Are we living on the same planet? Yes, I am using my body to work. This is actually an extremely superficial similarity. I cannot believe this needs to be litigated.
Sex work is part of Queer history!
I find this offensive. Picking cotton is part of Black history, too. Wholesome!
Criminalizing sex work only hurts sex workers!
This is true, but legalizing it won’t help anyone but the existing capitalist class within the industry. The only way to help sex workers is to give them ways to escape. You won’t see me calling the cops on them.
Sex workers should unionize!
A statement dreamt by the utterly deranged. How are they gonna strike? How are they gonna prevent scabbing? Is the economy gonna collapse if your demands aren’t met? Please show your work.
Genuinely, this might be a psyop.
It’s sexual harassment and misogyny and exploitation unless it’s in its purest form. Thank you! I do not get this at all.
What gets me is it’s that Simpsons meme with principal Skinner standing by the fence wondering if he could be wrong, then saying no it’s the children who are wrong.
But instead it’s western arm-chair “leftists” without a revolution, without revolutionary practice and theory doing the same thing and saying no it’s the in-power, successful revolutionary communist party (all of them) that are wrong! It’s the Marxists who fought and died bitterly who are wrong. It’s the Marxists who have a degree in Marxism from within a country under the control of a communist party who are wrong! I an enlightened western consooomer who grew up with a brain addled with liberalism and a consumption drive and a desperate need to justify my moral righteousness compared to those non-westerners know better.
It’s just so comical if it wasn’t sad and depressing.