The people who wish to maintain the patriarchal status quo are not stupid. The ‘blue light campaign’ is evidence of this, as it seeks to normalize the abuse and trauma that are inherent in female prostitution. I offer a handy rule of thumb when it comes to ’empowering ideas’ put
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Dead Wild Roses: Rachel Moran on ‘Choice Feminism’
Ah, the freedom of choice… https://blackswallowtailbutterfly.tumblr.com/post/173588985512/antiplondon-the-concept-of-choice-is-rooted-in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Julie Bindel on Prostitution – RT Interview
Oh, look, female sexual slavery is a bad thing. Go figure. 🙁 P Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Female Sexual Slavery, Julie Bindel, Prostituion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Prostitution Stories from the Frontline
Naming and deconstructing a problem on the societal level is not “shaming”. It isn’t about your personal ’empowerment’ or any of the other neo-liberal drek that passes for so much of mainstream feminism these days. So the example here is prostitution and no – I won’t call it ‘sex work’
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Post of the Day – How Could You Even Defend Prostitution and Porn? – Furious RadFem
The world’s oldest profession is easily the world’s worst ‘profession’. “We know working in prostitution causes higher rates of ptsd than participating in war, we know women are severely abused during sex, we know sex industry is heavily linked with child trafficking and human trafficking, we know most participants have to be severely drugged in […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Origins of Prostitution
Divide and conquer has always been an effective strategy. Applied against women, it has blossomed into one of tap roots of Foppression. “The feminist historian, Gerda Lerner, showed that prostitution has not always existed. It first arose at the beginning of patriarchy, which was relatively recently in the long history
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