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Every time I see another of worldoptimization’s old crypto posts it reads like “so I have discovered a way of generating theoretically infinite money (my parents’ MasterCard), unfortunately it sounds like some ppl have tried this and run into problems bc a lot of other ppl are dogmatically opposed to efficiency and freedom but luckily I have discovered a solution to this obstacle (fraud)
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Tinfoil hat moment but I swear this ‘omg evil SWERFs!!!” nonsense is a psy op bankrolled by the sex industry because in what world is “I think it’s okay for 60 year old men to buy sex from 18 year olds struggling to afford their next meal :)” something you can say with a goddamn straight face.
that’s not even a tinfoil hat moment tbh like ‘turn off the blue light’ was a campaign run by traffickers, the #notyourrescueproject was run by a man who posed as one of the women he trafficked under the name “molli desi”, there’s probably more examples but yeah, that’s 100% what’s going on
Red umbrella project was started/run by pimps and traffickers too.
Also think about now much modern feminism has to do with “sex positivity” and glorifies PornHub 👀
Also the NSWP, one of the most influential sex work orgs (backed by Amnesty & funded by George Soros) has ties to human trafficking. One of their leaders got sentenced for procuring and trafficking a few years ago
Oh and the IUSW openly takes money from pimps, including Douglas Fox who ran one of the biggest prostitution rings in England
Julie Bindel took a trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2015 to visit women who were supposedly apart of a popular and well-funded NGO called “Women’s Network For Unity” (WNU). She was not aware beforehand that a board member would actually be at the meeting. She details in this article that the board member consistently interrupted the prostitutes she came to speak with. When asked about the services they provide for women, she said that “If the women are beaten up by the police, they are given legal training on their rights; if they are arrested, the WNU will provide food during the time they cannot work; and if one of the women dies, they will help to buy the coffin.” When asked by Bindel if the organization was planning to raise money to help women out of prostitution, she replied “No.” When Bindel spoke with the women at the WNU meeting, many told her that they needed hundreds of dollars to obtain identification documents that they would need to seek out other, less dangerous work. Many said they had no idea they were apart of any sex workers union or NGO, which WNU claims to be.
The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) is a UK-based union for sex workers, and became a part of GMB, another general workers union and Britain’s third largest union, in 2002 after a vote to become an affiliate. Like @feministclassicist mentioned before me in the thread, Douglas Fox is one of the many donors to the IUSW, and is also a part of Amnesty International, which I’ll address shortly. Fox owns the largest escort service in north-eastern England, and has dedicated a lot of time, money, and resources to lobby for the legalization of pimping, brothel-owning, and sexbuying.
In 2010, Douglas Fox published a post on the official IUSW website, wherein he routinely refers to women who are prostitutes as “whores,” claims that Julie Bindel and other anti-coercive sex industry feminists are not “true feminists”, claims prostitution does “not institutionalise the sexual objectification of women”, and states “the whore challenges social oppression of both men and women by refusing to conform to narrow oppressive role prescriptions.”
These statements are diametrically opposed to the lives and vocalized experiences/desires of the overwhelming majority of so-called “sex workers”, who want to leave these industries and find other sources of labor, but often don’t have the resources to do so. [2] [3]
In 2008, Douglas Fox proposed a motion for blanket decriminalisation of the sex trade at the Amnesty International (AI) Annual General Meeting, a proposal that became international AI policy seven years later.
In October of 2014, Alejandra Gil, the Vice President of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), was arrested for running a massive sex trafficking ring, using APROASE (a proclaimed sex-worker led sex work Union, for whom she was a co-chair member) as a front for her illegal activities. In March of 2015 she was charged. Despite that, the very NSWP article I linked paints Gil out to be a victim, and dismisses her guilt.
“Turn off the blue light” is a primarily European campaign, whose mission is “to raise awareness on the violence, crimes and discrimination against sex workers, a marginalized female group and mobilize public opinion and stakeholders in order to tackle these phenomena” Despite this self-proclaimed mission, the campaign is backed and funded by characters such as Peter McCormick, a convicted pimp who rakes in millions of Euros from his online prostitution service annually. Additionally, his son, who was convicted of running 6 brothels is another advocate for the campaign. TJ Carrol is yet another of these traffickers and pimps who supported the campaign. Carrol ran the largest trafficking/prostitution ring in Ireland, and utilized African gangs to traffick women and sell them into sexual slavery, where oftentimes they were horribly abused and unable to escape. Carrol and his associates used voodoo rituals to terrify African women into staying in the industry, and he also groomed his daughter into the business. Tony Linnane is yet another convicted pimp who backed the campaign. He was also connected to an incident wherein a woman was “threatened with being burned alive after gasoline was thrown on her.” Had enough yet? Mihai Selaru is a brother owner and pimp who plead guilty to beating the prostitutes forced to work for him, and threatened to starve a woman if she did not bring in more business.
Claudia Brizuela, a former leader of Asociacion de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina (Association of Women Prostitutes of Argentina) (AMMAR) and a founder of the Latin American-Caribbean Female Sex Workers Network (LA-CFSWN), was arrested and charged with sex trafficking. The LA-CFSWN was represented by none other than Gil Alejandra.
Julie Bindel, through her fantastic and diligent research, discovered that the #notyourrescueproject hashtag and campaign, which claimed to be a “sex-worker-led” campaign was actually created and sustained by burner accounts of Dr. John Davies by women he had pimped and trafficked. Primarily, he posed as a disenfranchised woman from the Indian sub-continent named “Molli Desi.” All of the pictures of “Molli” were actually pictures of a woman he had trafficked from Bangladesh. Davies was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Migration Studies Department of Sussex University, where he routinely hid behind his respectability as a doctor in order to promote trafficking denialism. Davies was also involved in an adoption scheme called the King Solomon Foundation, which operated out of Romania, and where he sold the children of prostituted women for up to $20,000.
Liberal feminists and pro-“sex work” advocates, have you asked yourself who is benefiting from the constant platitudes you throw out? When you forego listening to the experiences of actual women who live in these conditions, the women who have been forever harmed and scarred by these immoral industries, and instead parrot talking points made by child predators, traffickers, pimps, and sexbuyers, who do you think is benefiting? I used to be like you. I used to spout the “sex workers deserve rights, and the way to go about that is through legalization” talking points. That stopped once I started dedicating time to researching the endless campaigns, legislative bodies and lobbyists that end up being the ones who are actively hurting women and selling them into sexual slavery. I started reading theory from women who have dedicated their lives to the protection and advocacy for women who don’t have the privilege of seeking these outlets themselves. Almost one million men, women, and children are trafficked every year alone. Have you ever critically addressed why you support legislation that increases this number? Why you claim we’re “sex-worker” exclusive when our feminism seems to be the only kind that seeks to abolish the sexual violence that pervades still? Empowerment is not commodifying women and selling us into sexual slavery. Empowerment is a state of being that requires that we have the conditions to make choices free of economic or otherwise violent coercion, or ultimatums that force women into inescapable circumstances. Wanting to legalize sexbuying, pimping, or brothel-owning is the advocacy of selling women for men’s sexual pleasure no matter the cost, and attempts to codify into law the types of situations that cause women to become prostitutes or trafficked individuals rather than eradicating the sociocultural, economic, political, and legislative plagues that commodify & objectify women, and force them into scenarios where they must submit to the sexual wills of men to survive.
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experience trees with me. these were all taken within 15 minutes
Rose Quartz - Ilha Claim, Taquaral, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
I re-blogged this (the first time) in 2014. Today, I tried half a dozen times to re-blog it, and it wouldn’t work. So, I saved the images and re-posted it. I hope it helps make life a little easier. :-) The original post is by iraffiruse.
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I’ve been using these tips for ten years and not one has failed me.
remember when “lifehacks” were useful?
Almost every day I think about how if you raised a daughter exactly, precisely like a son, it would be seen as vaguely progressive, but raising a son exactly, precisely like a daughter would be seen as sexual abuse.
Imagine a 12 year old boy being taught to shave his legs.
I’m using this specific example because it only seems abusive when applied to boys. For girls, you could say “Well, it’s annoying, it’s unfeminist, but it’s not abusive because it’s not abnormal. We’ve all been there. It could be worse.” The problem is that something being common or ‘not as bad as it could be’ does not make it right. That’s why what is “annoying” or “discouraging” for a girl seems “horrifying” or “abusive” for a boy.
It’s shockingly un-shocking to teach a child, a non-teenager, to remove the hair from her legs. But for boys, it screams “pedophillic grooming”, brings to mind a nauseating image of a pre-teen boy with no idea what he is doing or why it is deemed necessary, it creates the idea of a leering adult who simply wants the boy to look prepubescent. There is no normalization to hide behind. By doing this to a human being (that is, a boy) we defamiliarize it, unmask it, and can finally begin to understand how deeply sick girlhood is.
this is the men's vs women's outfits for the same 100m USATF competition. the men are wearing tight tank tops and shorts to the knee, the women are wearing pretty much bras and underwear. don't tell me this is about being aerodynamic. it's about sexualizing women. can you imagine if the men were wearing the women's outfits? they'd look stupid because we're so used to seeing women practically naked.
same sport. same year. same competition. look at the outfits.
tell me it's for moving easier.
same sport. same year. same competition. (also the women's one is also practically underwear with a see-through skirt that goes up all the time when skating)
Men’s Beach Volleyball:
Women’s Beach Volleyball:
If it really had advantages in performance male athletes would be fucking STRIPPING THESELVES!!!!! I want this unfair practice to stop
Some may not consider it a sport, but as someone who has been involved in the world of Competitive Irish dance for the last decade, it absolutely is- the training and athleticism needed is beyond intense, and the young people involved dedicate almost every hour they aren't in school to stretch/workout, classes, practices, performances, competitions.
One thing that's always irked me, especially because the youngest age categories in Irish dance accept kids as little as 4 years old, is the difference between how boys and girls, and men and women are required to dress in order to participate -
Here's a list of what women are required to do in order to not lose points for clothing/appearance at competition
Wear large, heavy bun wigs, often pinned to their heads so tightly with multiple bobby pins and clips that girls will lose hair and develop headaches and semi permanent bald spots.
Gel/hairspray back and dye any visible hair in their natural hair color
Wear concealer, foundation, eyeliner, mascara, blush, and lipstick, which must be kept neat even in hot rooms and while participating in strenuous physical activity
Wear dresses which often cost in the range of $1000, but can be more than $2500, and if they are lucky, end at the mid thigh, but are often cut at the upper thigh
Spray tan, professionally tan, or bottle tan their legs multiple shades darker than their skin in order to emphasize their legs
Accessorize with things like tiaras, hair clips, and earrings
Smile, even when they are preforming strenuous physical feats
Here's a list of what men are required to do in order to not lose points for clothing/appearance at competition
Wear competition pants/dress pants in a material with give (typically required to be black, but this may vary based on competition)
Wear a dress style shirt (typically in black or white)
Wear a custom dance vest or blazer with embellishments, which I've seen for as little as $150, but typically fall around $300, and can even be customized from traditional vests
Brush their hair, possibly use a small amount of gel if it is long
Do these things seem anywhere near equal? In time, pain, effort, cost, how much it inhibits your ability to actually dance? How comfortable you are while competing?
No
But of course, people will constantly justify every additional step women are asked to take. The girls are asked to smile because they aren't just dancing, they are preforming (Are the boys not?). They wear makeup because the stage lights wash them out, and so blush, mascara, and lipstick are necessary in order to see their features (But the boys features being seen is not relevant). They wear short dresses so the judges can see the muscles moving in their legs (A factor which apparently becomes unnecessary when the boys are preforming, as their legs are fully covered). They tan to emphasize the leg muscles, and so their legs stand out against the stage better (the boys are allowed to simply wear dark pants). They wear wigs because the movement of the curls emphasizes the jumps (The boys jumps need no additional emphasis). On and on and on.
Clearly from both the description and the photos you can tell that an aspect of the clothing is rooted in tradition, and in looking formal for the sake of performance, but the extent that girls are pushed to is simply for the sake of pageantry, often at a detriment to their comfort while preforming.
Irish Dance Costumes for Nationals 2022, Montreal
And for any who may try to claim this is simply a part of the tradition and culture, not an argument I like to begin with, here are some more traditional-leaning Irish Dance Costumes (1950's-70's), which are, surprisingly for the time, closer to the same for boys and girls/men and women than the ones made in 2022
i'm throwing one in here too why not.
the first fast pitch team i played on made us wear shorts instead of regular baseball pants that allow you to slide on the ground without getting hurt/getting dirt up your clothes.
tbh the fact women even have to play softball vs baseball is sexist enough for me. i wanted to play baseball bc i could throw very well for a kid. but i had to play a dumb underhand pitch sport bc vagina 🤡
no but actually. so many people revealed who they are during the trial and they’re going to blame it on misinformation but i could be sitting in plato’s fucking cave and I still wouldn’t be doing a tik tok dance to someone’s SA testimony. like that’s not misinformation that’s just being rotten to your core
basically everyone read this in the right way. but just to make it blatantly clear: whatever beliefs you had, whatever disinformation you were exposed to, whether you cared about the trial or not, you were not manipulated into being deeply cruel. the cruelty came from you
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Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!
Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.
Reblog to save a life?
Reblog to save a life.
Sharing because it’s actually a verified and sourced thing and not one of those dumbass fake tip posts.
It’s absurd how many communication mediums have been ruined by advertising, spam, and scams. Most of the mail you get is junk, most of the emails you get are junk, most of the phone calls you get are from bots, even a good portion of the text messages I receive are spam of some kind. If they ever invent a way to transmit thoughts directly between persons (not something I would even want) it would immediately be used to beam advertising into your brain. Hell companies are already researching to see if it’s possible to put ads in our dreams. Nothing is free from capitalism and nothing is sacred
Phyllis Shafer’s landscapes make me fucking insane
i will raise my children traditionally
the oldest will have a ruinous military career and develop a tendency to recklessness, alcoholism and anger management issues the middle one will be a brilliant student with strong atheist inclinations and casual demonic hallucinations the youngest will be an angel prone to hysteria turned tsaricide by circumstances
I love the concept of exile. Like dude just get out
