Lady of the Roses

[rhaegars-cervix]

i’ve been doing this for so long but i literally just realized that in the jenny/duncan-rhaegar/lyanna parallel, duncan is lyanna and rhaegar is jenny. duncan is the one running from an arranged marriage, jenny is the one born in a magic tomb-castle that used to belong to kings. we all assume duncan is rhaegar because they’re related but no. guys. rhaegar is jenny

[wrath-of-achilleus]

insane that people look at the story of prince duncan and jenny of oldstones and conclude that actually duncan was the bad guy for following his heart and marrying jenny because he dishonored his betrothal, as if the villain in the story is duncan, and not the systems of power in place that restrict the freedom of people to love and marry whoever the fuck they want to.

like what aspect of the way that grrm told the story makes you think, oh yes, the lesson here is to NOT follow your heart, and to always sacrifice love for duty.

love is the death of duty is a tragedy guys. it’s not actually a warning. maester aemon may frame it as such, but as readers I think we’re expected to have a certain amount of reading comprehension to see that grrm isn’t actually vilifying his own characters who chose love over duty, he’s condemning the system that forced the choice in the first place.

[vitasaurus]

You can't support sex workers and not the sex industry. Workers' rights include the right of the workers to control their own industry. If you want to destroy that industry, then you don't support them.

Sex workers have voices you can listen to; you don't have to control their lives for them and decide who they are and "save them". They have international and global organizations, some of which cover entire continents (like the European Sex Workers Rights Alliance). They've addressed the discrimination they face at the United Nations. They've got it covered.

Please remember that, off the internet, belief in the Nordic Model and radical feminism are fringe beliefs. Human rights orgs and most sex worker led projects support full decriminalization and a sex worker-led sex industry

Listen to sex workers

Decriminalize Sex Work, a sex worker-led advocacy org on why sex workers want full decriminalization and not the Nordic Model/Equality Model/End Demand model of legalization

Global Network of Sex Work Projects representing over 300 orgs in 110 countries

Decriminalization of Sex Work (wikipedia)

ACLU report on decriminalization, explaining everything you could want to know, including why client criminalization (aka the Nordic Model) still hurts workers

World Health Organization, explaining that decriminalization results in lower rates of about every STI ever

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch calling for full decriminalization

The Lancet editorial supporting decrim and also explaining why criminalizing clients hurts workers

It's very clear that sex workers globally want full decriminalization, and are backed by every human rights org I can name, and radfems are still talking about "end demand" and "abolition". What a bunch of "love the sinner, hate the sin" bullshit. The paternalism and manipulation sex workers have to put up with is insane and it makes me sick.

Sex worker led organization include literally hundreds of orgs and it's impossible to list them all, but here are a handful:

Orgs in the US, many of these Black-led and all trans inclusive:

The Cupcake Girls,

the Black Sex Workers' Collective,

Desiree Alliance, and

the Sex Worker Outreach Project

and just a few international organizations include:

the African Sex Worker Alliance,

the Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network for Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia,

the Plataforma LatinoAmerica de Personas que Ejercen el Trabajo Sexual (LatAm Platform for Sex Workers), and

the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers

Sex workers have been organizing. They have been talking, mobilizing, building up their industry and each other. How dare we sit around the internet pretending like we know better than them?

[unsolicited-opinions]

What do Zionists have to do with Venezuela?

Nothing, but that won't stop Jew-haters like Candace Owens.

[X]

[is-the-fire-real]

Fascinating how leftists insist that horseshoe theory was invented by liberals to deny liberal complicity in the crimes of the right...

... when, wowie zowie, it looks like leftist political leaders are saying the exact same thing as far-right Candace Owens.

How did this happen, what a mystery, etc.

[unsolicited-opinions]

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