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[cherrycherub2222]

[capricorn-season]

[elaenathedefiant]

countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that

[darthvatrix]

Why would trafficking increase when you have legalized prostitution.

[aneurysmsandanalogues]

Because if prostitution is legal, demand increases. And if it is legal, pimps and traffickers have more room to exploit and sell women under the guise of legal sex work.

In fact, in countries where it is legal, pimps and brothel owners are considered sex workers themselves.

[gorgonology]

Just because you legalize prostitution doesn’t mean women are going to be anymore willing to do it, but more men expect to go to prostitutes, so the demand for prostitution increases. Where do you get prostitutes if women aren’t willing to be them? you kidnap and traffick them!! 

[thereallifesnowwhite]

Thank you for explaining this so concisely. I always thought trafficking would decrease if prostitution was legalized, so this is good to know.

[tr1angl3]

it’s worth pointing out that Germany, who’s always touted as very progressive for legalizing prostitution and instituting prostitution unions, has become the human trafficking hub of Europe since those laws were implemented.

[withapioneerheart-deactivated20]

This is your friendly reminder that “sexuality is fluid” and “hearts not parts” rhetoric is literally being used by leading conversion therapists right now, who have changed with the times from trying to “fix” gay people to be straight and have now begun preaching “progressive” liberal politics while focusing their efforts on “turning” gay people “bisexual” and emphasizing the idea that everyone has some opposite-sex attraction deep down…. which is exactly the same point of view that trans activists and liberal feminists are pushing right now.

[thousandxarrows-blog]

this technique is called SAFE-T (Sexual Attraction Fluidity Exploration in Therapy) and you can read more about it here.

[warmheartwitch-blog]

I reblog this every time I see it.

[oatmealtrash]

Yup. My dad loves going on and on about how fluid sexuality is whenever my sexuality comes up. “You never know what could happen in the future”. Whatever. Don’t hold your breath…

[warmheartwitch-blog]

Ugh that’s awful. Sorry you have to deal with that.

[gender-critical-butch]

why is gender dysphoria the only mental illness that’s “affirmed”?

granted i’m not a professional psychiatrist but i can’t think of any other mental illness where the unwell patient makes a statement about reality and that statement is “affirmed.” a patient with a restrictive ED states they need to be severely underweight to be worthy as a person, a patient with OCD states that if they don’t repeat same ritualistic behavior something terrible is going to happen to them, a patient with depression states that the world would be better off without them in it…all of these hypothetical patients are making statements about reality as a result of what their mental illness/disorder is telling them. but no therapist in their right mind would “affirm” any of these beliefs because they’re obviously the result of a mind that is unwell and “affirming” these individuals would just make them sicker by pushing them deeper into their unhealthy line of thinking.

the same cannot be said of gender dysphoria, where a patient states that they were born in the wrong body/they should have been the opposite sex and that belief about reality is then “affirmed” by medical professionals. in not all, but many cases it’s “affirmed” with barely any questioning/pushback at all. there are a lot of things about “gender affirming care” that i find concerning, but i think the most questionable thing of all literally comes down to it’s name.

i mean if you ever wonder why the trans community is the way it is just think about what would happen if a therapist “affirmed” their patient with social anxiety by saying they’re correct about their friends and family secretly hating them, or “affirmed” their patient with anorexia by saying they’re correct about needing to eat a dangerously low calorie diet… the individual would inevitably get sicker, pushed deeper into their disordered thinking. they might even become passionately adamant about the fact that they’re correct to be thinking the way they do to an almost unhinged degree because their doctor, an individual with power who is more educated than the average person, “affirmed” them and said that they’re right. and it feels really fucking good to be told you’re right, it can become pretty damn intoxicating…

[taylor14firefly]

“Women are described in animal terms as pets, cows, sows, foxes, chicks, serpents, bitches, beavers, old bats, old hens, mother hens, pussycats, cats, cheetahs, bird-brains, and hare-brains…‘Mother Nature’ is raped, mastered, conquered, mined; her secrets are ‘penetrated,’ her ‘womb’ is to be put into the service of the ‘man of science.’ Virgin timber is felled, cut down; fertile soil is tilled, and land that lies ‘fallow’ is ‘barren,’ useless. The exploitation of nature and animals is justified by feminizing them; the exploitation of women is justified by naturalizing them.”

— Karen J. Warren Ecological Feminism  (via quoilecanard)

[geminipdf]

sam levinson after aging his schoolgirl characters up and giving half of the female cast jobs in sex work so he can basically legally shoot pornos on a hbo budget

[purpleorganeater]

marxist communist transgender that gives big pharma thousands of dollars per year for their cosmetic surgeries

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

my straight female friends don't masturbate while watching videos of men being slapped, beaten, yelled at, thrown around, crying, or in pain. they don't masturbate to videos of men described as "teen" or "teen boy" or "teen virgin". they don't masturbate to videos where a man pretends to get stuck in some furniture and have a woman sneak up and fuck him while he is stuck and can't move. they don't masturbate to videos where a man has things shoved down his throat and is gagging and crying and trying to break away, but the woman won't let him. they don't masturbate to videos of men being painfully fucked in the ass, where their pain is the point, referred to as painal. they don't masturbate to videos where men are alternatingly described as teens, young, virgins, naive, or dilfs, mature, sluts, whores, nasty, etc. they don't masturbate to videos where a man is tricked into sex by a woman under false pretenses, or forced by a woman to have sex to make up for something, like a crime, or to pay for something. they don't masturbate to videos where men appear to be drugged or sleeping while a woman fucks him. they don't masturbate to videos of men being fucked by women while mimicking all of the body language and style of dress of teens and children. they don't watch videos of skinny barely 18-year-old boys who look much younger being fucked by older women. in fact, they don't really watch much porn at all. my one straight friend doesn't even watch porn anymore, but when she did, it was just videos of this one guy who was like a pussy-eating specialist and would go down on girls very skillfully and for a long time. basically, straight women just want to see a hot guy eat a girl out for longer and with more care than your average real-life straight guy would, but men want to see women and teen girls be hurt, scream, cry, pretend to be children, pretend to be asleep, stuck, unable to move, naive, tricked into sex, etc. interesting. something to think about.

[honeyapplebutterfly]

Can literally anyone explain why “girlboss feminism” is actually bad tho. Why is it bad for women to be strong and successful. Does anyone know or do we just hate women. No one says “boyboss” when the main character of an action movie is a guy who kills a bunch of dudes.

[nawadi-roman]

Also it’s shortsighted and illogical. If we were to change the social and civil laws that are unfair to women, women have to take over every influential position to make it happen. Because real effective change comes from having seats at the table, not from protesting outside the door or begging those in power to feel sympathy for us. I honestly think bashing that idea is psyop by men to discourage women from seeking more positions of power. It’s not surprising to me that right after this, tradwives content became popular because women don’t have to work and be a girlboss anymore. They should just let men lead the home and the country and it’s okay. If anything that tells me women are close to a breakthrough, all this resistance is because we’ve hit a vital nerve in the patriarchal structure. We should go back to that instead of this current nonsensical movement.

[radfemme-rage]

so much harm is being done to women by not encouraging us to be career-minded and to acquire money and wealth.

all women, regardless of their career, should also have basic knowledge of investing and financial literacy, i.e. pay off all debts as quickly as possible, build an emergency savings fund, and once you have a comfortable amount in your savings to cover emergencies and 6-12 months of your life if you were to lose your job, start investing any surplus savings each month into an index fund like the S&P 500.

a woman being financially independent AND also financially *thriving* is feminist praxis. don’t listen to unemployed moids on the internet when they harp on about how “capitalism is the root of all evil” and “i don’t dream of labour” (which is also ironic, given that people are worked to the bone in any male-led economic system, whether it be capitalistic or communism).

i see so many moids around me keen to make money, but women haven’t been socialised with this same attitude — i don’t think we need to emulate men, but i do think more of us would greatly benefit from being more serious about increasing our earnings potential.

[kitchenalia]

occasionally, we all need to do some internal reality checks. step back from ideals and activism for a few minutes to actually see and understand the women in the world – the housewives who will never leave their husbands, the lesbians who don’t have a single activist bone in their bodies, the women who can’t understand the point of separatism, the women who swear that they’re happy doing what they do, the old women who spent their entire lives with a man and are therefore too boring for you, the women who never want to work a job, the women who will never have time for activism because they do nothing but work a job, the women who are “stuck in their ways,” the women who have distanced and isolated themselves from any of the other women in their lives…

the world isn’t made up of ideologically pure women or noble, flawless victims of the patriarchy who are damaged but do no damage themselves. the world isn’t split into good, interesting, politically active women & bad women who you can ignore (unless you feel like making fun of them). the world is primarily composed of women who do not already agree with you. and they’re still worthwhile women who deserve to be liberated as much as the ones who do agree with you.

[anelimvix]

WTF ?🤯

[honeyapplebutterfly]

Trans men in my replies: I understand where you’re coming from but I just have some key ideological differences perhaps we could have a civil discussion over DMs and

Trans women in my replies: get raped and die ugly cumslut foid

[aftonfamilyvalues]

the tumblr obsession with marsha p johnson is entirely performative. despite the pedestal, none of these people could tell you a single accurate detail of marshas life.

[ultra-radfem]

can i make this absolutely crystal clear: if you watch porn, you are supporting porn. 

it sounds so obvious but i have had too many guys tell me that just because they watch it doesn’t mean they necessarily support the industry. but???

what the hell do you think support means? do you think it’s your quiet disapproval that’s going to help us end this? it doesn’t matter that you, deep within your heart, don’t actually condone the stuff. they don’t need you to condone it. they just need you to click on it.

if you watch porn, then you are guilty of supporting it by fuelling the demand, regardless of whether you mean to or not. end of discussion.

[iovehappy]

i love popcorn

[veritablevent]

watching the great halsey debates happening on twitter and marvelling once again at how a woman being a little cringey is just as bad as a man being misogynistic. if not worse.

[persimmonteas]

fantano saying halsey has main character syndrome because she wrote an album about her cancer diagnosis/worry about leaving her kid behind and then unironically telling Variety today that he is the most important music critic ever is crazy