A few days ago, my BFF tagged me in the following quote from Anne McClintock on Facebook.
“Society demonizes sex workers because they demand more money than women should, for services men expect for free.”
Despite instantly un-tagging myself, I was stoked on the quote. But then I started reading the comments. Never read the comments. What I found was “feminists” trampling women they instantly labeled as mentally unstable, addicted, and abused. Women who must not be reasonable people for “choosing” the “job,” just like that, with the quotation marks, as if to say that sex work as a choice is preposterous, and that as a profession, it’s laughable. As someone who is a sex worker, I find it incredibly insulting that “feminists” would behave in a way that marginalizes an already isolated group of women. How did feminism progress into something that makes me feel less than equal?
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The venomous hatred of a certain kind of rad-fem for sex workers is on the order of everything these harpies pretend to despise – racism, sexism and every other kind of vile bigotry. That’s because they’re vile bigots. As Nina often remarks, she’s never been treated in such an ugly fashion by any man as she has by anti-sex-work “feminists,” who get their very own set of scare quotes because scare quotes signal lying and that’s just what they do.
Those trolls just LOVE the comment section. It IS ok to use comment section to make someone feel BETTER if situation calls. Not impossible for rad-fem and kind heart to be in one body? ‘,sigh’, #bigotsruinedplanet2014
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