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No matter how much we would like to use feminism to justify our choices, feminism cannot be interpreted to encompass any risky, self-hating, violent thing a woman does to herself, or takes money for doing, or pays someone to do to her. Feminism does not value women’s subordination and women’s pain. It doesn’t value healthy women’s lifetime dependence on the medical system for nutritional supplements or hormones—inevitable outcomes of weight-loss surgery or transsexualism. Feminism doesn’t value a standard of beauty for women comprised of extreme thinness, regular Caucasian features, smooth hair, young-looking skin without wrinkles or blemishes, and lack of visible body hair. Feminists know this standard purposely excludes most women and is designed to keep us feeling anxious about our appearance and dependent on surgeons and cosmetic companies for expensive reassurance. Feminism values women as the subjects of our own lives, not objects to attract and hold another’s gaze. It values cooperation between women, not the competition and comparison fostered by presenting us with image after image of women we’ll never look like—women who, in fact, don’t exist, given the extensive and now-infamous use of airbrushing and retouching in fashion photography. Fat women have been very damaged by the beauty standard under which we’re the ugliest of the ugly—but the feminist response to that is not to dress our fat selves up in lingerie and pose for the NOLOSE newsletter or Dimensions magazine. Feminism does not value expanding the categories of women available for male sexual exploitation; it values ending the sexual exploitation of all women.
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“Sex positive feminism” is not feminist
home-of-amazons:
First of all, in this post I’m using the term “sex-positive” in reference to the support and defense of the sex industry and the overall celebration of turning human beings into commodities and sex into a service.
“Sex positive” (or “pro-sex”) implies that anyone who doesn’t go along with the porno-loving, pro-prostitution jacktivists is sex negative, anti-sex, prudish, sexually repressed, and doesn’t want anyone to have any fun. “Sex positive feminism” embraces “sexual freedom” on the basis that women being able to make choices is “liberating” and “empowering.” The pro-porn, pro-prostitution, pro-objectification agenda, however, is far from feminist. I could, but really don’t want to, affirm this in about 10 minutes by looking at the most popular porn videos and examining the way that the women are treated. However, many other people have written comprehensive analyses on mainstream porn. I’m genuinely amazed that anyone can watch that kind of stuff and not end up permanently traumatised.
Feminism isn’t, and never was, a movement based on “choice” or the illusion thereof. Obviously I want people to be able to make choices, including those that I strongly disagree with, provided they aren’t harming anyone else. But the problem with mainstream feminism’s “choice” philosophy is that it praises individualism, and by extension the idea that any act a woman chooses to do is feminist.
And in that, it tosses pornified and prostituted women into an invisible dirt corner because their reality is an unimaginable slavery that no one wants to see.
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Knowing that our real life horrors resemble porn and are actually used as porn should give some people a clue but it doesn’t.
— FCM
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The truth is that if you’re with a guy who uses porn, you’re with a guy who at his core believes that women are subhuman fucktoilets.
Women never want to believe this, for about 386 reasons. The idea of being objectified by the entire ruling class of default humans is too awful to contemplate. The implications are unthinkable. Women disdain to consider that life under the auspices of a culture of domination inexorably taints all relationships. But mostly they just don’t want to have to confront the porn-usin’ dude they love, the dude who will think they are being unreasonable, the dude they know will dump them before he’ll give up his porn.
So they think maybe their Nigel is different. A dude who believes that women are subhuman fucktoilets would have to be a mean, nasty sociopath, right? But their Nigel isn’t that guy; their Nigel is nice and smart and funny. He’d never dream of being violent. He makes great hummus. People like him. He’s a progressive. Sometimes he even does housework. He voted for Hilary. Yes, this Nigel uses porn, but he’s a great guy, so his porn use cannot possibly indicate that he eroticizes misogyny. And even if he does eroticize misogyny, that must mean that the eroticization of misogyny is no big whoop, or possibly even a swell thing for all concerned, because a guy as great as Nigel would never do anything to hurt anyone.
Nope, sorry. I will now unleash the aphorisms.
Pornography is the graphic representation, not just of violence against women, but of male supremacy. It degrades all women. It erodes the humanity of all women. Porn use fetishizes violence and supports male supremacy. Porn is the expression of patriarchy. Porn use is the practice of patriarchy.
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rookiemag:
♀♀♀♀♀Happy Women’s Day ROOKIE’S!!!♀♀♀♀♀
collage by me
- Petra
wow yeah let’s celebrate sexploitation
good job
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So much of what we see in pornography, especially “fetish” or “BDSM” pornography, is based on the Nazi concentration camp theme, with women being kept in “dungeons” being sexually tortured by “dominant” men. Sometimes we see the reverse, with women dominating men, or women dominating other women, but this is far less common, and it’s still the same theme.
Yet, all of this fascist, racist, misogynistic hatred has been packaged and sold to the male public as sexual liberation and freedom. And men on the “left” have swallowed it like a giant cum load.
