I am one of those women who are said to be here by choice.
Entire piece written by Chelsea Geddes
Hey you “If a woman CHOOSES to do sex work then she is empowered by sex work and you’re just a SWERF bigot” crowd! Yes you! Hi. Listen to me.
I am one of those women who are said to be here by choice. No one person groomed me into this choice, granted I was underage when I was first faced with this choice but it was still my own “choice” as you define the…
A week on from Wimbledon, former Centre Court star Martina Navratilova talks to Decca Aitkenhead about her battle for female equality in sport.
Martina Navratilova was so puzzled when people started calling her a “Terf”, she had to google the acronym to find out what it meant. The…
Press Release: Gender Ideology Spells End of Parental Rights in BC. Totalitarianism has Arrived.
Press Release: Gender Ideology Spells End of Parental Rights in BC. Totalitarianism has Arrived.
Press Release: Gender Ideology Spells End of Parental Rights in BC. Totalitarianism has Arrived.
https://transanityca.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/press-release-gender-ideology-spells-end-of-parental-rights-in-bc-totalitarianism-has-arrived/
— Read on transanityca.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/press-release-gender-ideology-spells-end-of-parental-rights-in-bc-totalitarianism-has-arrived/
We at #OccupiedAustralia stand in solidarity with our LGB friends in their ongoing battle against violence and discrimination against them, due to their sexual orientation.
Heterosexual people, especially MEN (given that the majority of this is perpetrated by men), stand up for your LGB brothers and sisters this year.
Read this article and understand what is happening people.
“They emancipate the child for the health decision, get them to sign a waiver of liability, and tada, they are all taken care of. Responsibility rests with the temporarily emancipated child. Something similar might work for pedophiles in the future; just emancipate the child before sex, have them sign a waiver, tada, instant adult child to molest free of charge.”
An incredibly important read from Jenn Smith, a person who identifies as Transgender.
“These drugs come with serious and irreversible side effects, including permanent facial and body hair, an irreversible deepening of the voice, and other potential problems including the possibility of sterilization—although consent forms are very careful to note that the long term consequences of cross sex hormones are not yet fully understood.
For those females that do go through with testosterone “therapy” and later regret it, they can find themselves trapped in a kind of nightmare where they have all of the physical appearances of a male but are actually still female with no functional male parts.”
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind the gender nonsense so much if we went back to “sex and gender are distinct things and yes I’m female but I identify as a man” bc then at least it wouldn’t be so dangerous to women. I’d still roll my eyes at nonbinary peeps and “starself” but at the end of the day it probably wouldn’t affect people outside of their social circle. Trying to abolish sex-based identifiers on a legal level and saying “sex is a social construct/it doesn’t exist” HURTS PEOPLE. ESPECIALLY WOMEN. We have spent so much time fighting for protections from sex-based oppression, yet in one fell swoop genderists are trying to destroy all of that work by erasing the concept of sex on both the social and legal levels. It’s ridiculous.
It is important that everyone who has access to a smartphone sees what is happening here. This is across social media platforms that this predator is being SUPPORTED by TRAs.
Add this to the list of attacks on women and girls. This is horrifying and will not stop until Gender Identity reform is stopped.
Reposted from Rad Fem Fatale 👏
Jonathan Yaniv is a trans-identified male involved in the…
Frequent minibar-restock requests and refusal of maid service for several days also listed among "red flags" for human trafficking.
Heads up to sex workers who work in hotels, especially those who run incalls from them.
Included amongst “warning signs” that hotels are being urged to report are:
garbage cans containing many used condoms
frequent use of “Do Not Disturb” sign on room door
excessive foot traffic in and out of a room
“excessive sex paraphernalia” in room
an “overly smelly room” that reeks of “cigarette, marijuana, sweat, bodily fluids, and musk”
a guest who “averts eyes or does not make eye contact”
individuals “dressed inappropriate for age” or with “lower quality clothing than companions”
guests with “suspicious tattoos”
the presence of multiple computers, cell phones, pagers, credit card swipes, or other technology
the presence of photography equipment
minibar in need of frequent restocking
guests with too many personal hygiene products, especially “lubrication, douches”
guests with too few personal possessions
rooms paid for with cash or a rechargeable credit card
“individuals loitering and soliciting male customers”
“claims of being an adult though appearance suggests adolescent features”
refusal of room cleaning services for multiple days
Remember, the DHS seems to be taking a very large interest in busting sex workers of late, not just under cover of suspicion of human trafficking – it was Homeland Security that led the bust against RentBoy and MyRedBook.
No, I don’t believe prostituted women should be punished, I think they’re in serious need of help. To be against sex work isn’t against the sex worker, just like being anti child labor doesn’t make you anti child.
I think these women need to be saved from johns and pimps.
I do do my research (tagged/prostitution, look at my tag before you reblog). Please don’t call me a terf (I’m not a TERF or SWERF) or call me a b*tch. It doesn’t make people want to open up for meaningful discussion.
Do you hear yourself? I literally said I wanted women to be protected from the industry.
the 90% who are unsafe in prostitution should always be prioritised over the 10% who are privileged enough to draw personal benefit
(this is a good example of liberal feminism, btw; throwing women WHO NEED TO ESCAPE FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING under the bus so you can continue to feel some illusion of empowerment up in your ‘ethical’ ‘feminist’ ivory tower)
No, sorry, you can’t pretend you care for safety in the industry you profit from and defend, thus belonging to a minority in said industry, when you see “dressed inappropriately for age” or “claims of being an adult though appearance suggests adolescent features” and make it out to be “the government is trying to bust us, enthusiastic adult sex workers”, and say shit like “under cover of suspicion of human trafficking”. It’s just really fucking transparent, okay. These are really, really basic safety measures that can and do save trafficked individuals’ lives (and imo should be reinforced in all businesses):
“Shelia Fedrick, 49, said she rescued a victim of human trafficking on a flight from Seattle to San Francisco. The Alaska Airlines flight attendant saw the disheveled teen sitting next to a well-dressed man.” / “[…] when she noticed a teen, believed to be 14 or 15 years old, sitting in the window seat next to a well-dressed older man, NBC reported. Fedrick said the victim had greasy blond hair and looked like she ‘had been through pure hell’. It was the contrast between the two that raised a red flag.” (Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4194128/Flight-attendant-saves-girl-human-trafficking.html)
since i’m particularly mad about the whining over tumblr’s restrictions right now! let’s recall this really isn’t the first time tumblr’s ~sex workers~ mourn policies that could prevent child sexual abuse because it harms their business.
I’ve seen it several times. They don’t want sex trafficking cracked down on because it might get in their way. They are truly selfish women who couldn’t give a fuck about victims.
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).
Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So what’s next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Lol Look at all the pornsick wankers losing their shit. Maybe if you didn’t spend your lives exploiting women and girls, this wouldn’t be an issue, like it isn’t, for normal human-beings
'Porn is now the main sex educator for young people,' survey finds.
Rape culture and sexual violence may be gaining ground in New Zealand because of pornography, a new survey has found.
The survey of 622 sexual health services, youth workers, schools and families has found increasing genital injuries caused by violent sex inspired by pornography that depicts violence as normal.
Respondents report “increased degradation, objectification and disrespect of women and girls; normalising of sexual violence and coercion; a disregard for consent; a devaluing and transactional approach to sex; advanced sexual knowledge for development age; an erosion of mutual pleasure and the normalising of painful sex particularly for women and gay males.”
The survey does not claim to be an academic study and was done to inform a set of resources for youth, schools and parents on how to deal with porn, which will be published on October 1 on www.thelightproject.co.nz.
An Education Review Office review of sexuality education in schools, published today, highlighted the survey as evidence that many schoolchildren “are learning about sex through pornography” on their smartphones.
Survey organiser Nikki Denholm, a former sexual health nurse who has worked internationally on female genital mutilation and other sexual health issues, said she was inspired to do something about porn after working on child sex trafficking in the Philippines.
“I was surprised how many young people had been filmed for the sex industry,” she said.
Back in New Zealand, she teamed up with Auckland sex therapist Jo Robertson, sexual health nurses Lief Pearson and Melissa Powell and former child protection worker Veronia Houghton to found the “Light Project”, named “to shine a light in an area that is quite dark”.
Schoolteachers, principals and guidance counsellors who responded to their online survey “gave many accounts of students viewing porn on personal or school devices during school hours”.
One said: “Pornography is now the main sex educator for young people.”
Another said: “Porn is normalising misogynistic, violent, rape culture, racist, anti-LGBTI sexual behaviour - leading to an expectation that this is okay behaviour.”
Sexual health workers and youth workers said they saw “an increase in sexual aggression and sexual violence, including sexually coercive behaviours, increasing incidences of sexual assault (for boys and girls), an increase in sexually aggressive behaviours seen in younger children, sexual violence towards partners and increased incidences of child-on-child abuse including re-enacting porn scenes”.
“Young people are inadvertently educated that it’s normal to endure or inflict pain,” one person said.
A sexual health doctor said: “A number of sexual practices are becoming more common and normalised among young people, I believe as a result of watching porn. These include pubic hair shaving, anal sex, group sex, etc.”
Health services also reported “increasing presentations of young men to Sexual Health Services with sexual dysfunction”.
“These men are reporting problems with ‘normal’ sex not being as stimulating as pornography, causing difficulty reaching orgasm or maintaining an erection,” one person said.
Robertson, who is completing a master’s thesis at Sydney University on the impacts of porn on adolescents, said therapists were seeing young men with erectile dysfunction that “you would have never seen in a 25-year-old” before smartphones.
Therapists expressed concern that parents were ignoring the issue.
“Fathers don’t realise how vital it is to talk to their boys about it. They think it is acceptable, a fad, or just a ‘fact of life’,” one therapist said.
Denholm said the Light Project resources would include tips on how to talk to young people about porn, suggestions for schools, and resources for young people themselves about the importance of consent and where to get help.
“We were very sobered that this is here and this is New Zealand,” she said. “Despite how enlightened adults might think we are, we have got a problem.”
Support our sisters in the UK. I personally know more than one woman that has been assaulted but a “trans”woman in a female only space. #thisneverhappens #womenonlyspaces #fairplayforwomen #sexnotgender #radfem #radicalfeminism #gendercritical https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/228767?fbclid=IwAR2hZFNXWh2ILJ7zUr6VFouhoSY31A5x3APsn4Rkt9oIBH8b4a5jPkpVOko
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