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Girl, wtf are you talking about? We (the human species) all originated from Africa which makes the women who were the first slaves, in fact, black. Clearly you've never picked up a history book or studied biological anthropology if you think that the transatlantic slave trade is the first instance of enslavement. The world and human beings existed long before the era of colonization, before race was invented and lines were drawn between people with light and dark skin, before white people even genetically started taking shape. There are documented instances of men trading their daughters for dowries and inventing the concept of 'virginity' to get better prices way before dispersion and globalization. It's not racist to call out a system that has historically ignored and downplayed the commodification of female bodies.

There is absolutely zero indication in this post that OP is saying that women don't desire sex. The fact that you conflate prostitution with sex is highly concerning. Sex should be consensual and pleasurable and, as you rightfully pointed out in your first paragraph, it is oftentimes a means of procreation, especially in the age of early modern humans. The monetary element immediately negates any type of consent, which cannot be bought.

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the difference between prostitution and any hazardous occupation is that in dangerous jobs, the harm is a side effect. in prostitution, the harm being done to you is the job.

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The other thing about this too is that it's often framed in a way of being frustrated or angry with the white victim/victim's family and downplaying their grief and the crimes committed against them by saying "this statistically doesn't happen as often" instead of demanding that women of color and their families get equal amounts of coverage, support, and resources when they go missing. It's the APPROPRIATE response to be scared and outraged and devastated when gender-based violence occurs, lest we normalize it and lose our sense of humanity and empathy. It's about keeping the same energy across the board for all female victims. Ashley Loring HeavyRunner's case deserves the same amount of eyes on it as Gabby Petito's did, and that can be done without reducing Gabby to a trope.

'Missing white woman syndrome' / 'true crime is cringe white feminism' belief has mixed in scarily well with the weird sex trafficking misinformation/qanon protect the kids vibes to create a social/political left that is hesitant at best to discuss gender based rape, violence and murder at all. It's genuinely seen as like a cringey white millennial lady thing to do to be invested in true crime. True crime is fucked for sure but it's also the only mainstream place right now being realistic about the genuine violence that women and girls face.

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your sex is literally just your body. it is a completely neutral biological characteristic. it says nothing about you. nothing about your personality is incompatible with your body. you can act/dress/behave any way you want regardless of your sex! neither your personality or body need to change!!

baffling how this take has become so demonized

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being a lesbian is fucking bleak right now

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I wish bi/hets would decenter men☕ from their lives. Put yourself first.

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Discussing whether or not sex workers “enjoy their job” is an enormous waste of time from a Marxist perspective (which so many of you claim to have).

Do we discuss whether or not the steel workers enjoy their job? Do you discuss whether or not the the slaughterhouse workers enjoy their job? No! That’s never brought up whatsoever—for whatever reason, we immediately understand that a random laborer’s personal enjoyment on the clock is not relevant.

What is relevant is discussing how labor is built upon coercion. The ruling class has stolen the commons and thus forced us into repetitive work for money, which we all “need” to have in order to pay our taxes—and our taxes are used to fuel military excursions meant to steal even more resources to make the ruling class even more powerful.

In other words, all labor that is exchanged for money is coerced. This is very, very basic Marxism 101.

Sex work is thus, like all other work, coerced. And coerced sex is rape.

It is honestly a bit sickening to me how quickly y’all point to personal enjoyment. I’ve never seen that argument used elsewhere at all. I’ve never seen a self-described Leftist say “some cashiers enjoy being on their feet :)” or “some field workers enjoy being in the sun :)”

What an absolutely absurd thing to argue! And y’all who humor them by point out the health risks, the testimonies, etc.......just absolute ABSURDITY.

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  Choice feminism will never yield any real results because it treats the patriarchy-the system that traditional feminism aimed to destroy- as almost nonexistent. Yeah okay, ‘patriarchy’ is thrown around as a buzzword, but it’s never seen as a legitimate means of controlling women by choice feminists. Here’s why.

    Choice feminism assumes that every choice a woman makes is made in a vacuum. A woman’s choice to wear makeup is her choice made without the influence of beauty standards pushed by a trillion-dollar beauty industry made by men. A woman’s choice to do sex work is her choice uninfluenced by hyper-sexualization and misogyny created by the porn industry once again created by men. A woman’s choice to participate in kink culture is her choice uninfluenced by the porn culture and influence men created to keep women submissive. 

          Critical thinking is thrown away just so choice feminists can say ‘look at me! I’m empowered doing things men have always expected me to do and benefit from’. Proving some half-thought-out point about women’s autonomy is more important than breaking free from the financial, political, and cultural systems of oppression the patriarchy created for these feminists. 

          Throwing around ‘fuck the patriarchy’ does nothing when you don’t acknowledge it as an extremely powerful force that penetrates women’s lives and influences decision-making. 

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"Nobody is born with a gender. We are born with a set of expectations imposed upon us that massively disadvantage girls & privilege boys."

— Julie Bindel

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Another based TikTok woman being 100% right about religion, love the tendency ✊

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of course many women are gonna identify as non-binary if you tell them that womanhood is a feeling, something you have to be conected to, to feel and to be conscious of everyday. it's not. and most women actually don't feel anything. "i don't know what feeling like a woman feels like/i don't really feel connected to womanhood most of the time so i am probably not a woman and must be non-binary!" no it's just totally normal. womanhood is not a feeling. we don't go around having a constant womanly feeling and loving everything about womanhood 24/7. this idea is totally made up, and most women wouldn't know what the fuck you're talking about. same goes for "being a woman is being totally happy about your gender" no. not all women like being women, and saying this implies that being a woman is feeling good with all gender rules and stereotypes (because that's the def of gender) and not only it is false, but also sexist. being a woman isn’t a feeling or a connection, it is a reality.

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aging is beautiful and natural never let any moid convince you otherwise

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radfem infighting will get us nowhere. some of us are OSA. some of us have kids. some of us still wear makeup. some of us have a job that relies on our appearance. some of us still shave.

it's important to be united towards our goal, and that means sometimes people are going to be at different places in our lives.

our first step is waking up and understanding the influences of the patriarchy, and then working against those influences and forging a new path.

fighting with each other about every little thing will derail us and set us back. we should work together to break away from the patriarchy, not fight each other because we're at different stages.