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hmmm there is something insidious about how people are like “teen girls are being indoctrinated into being radfems and they’re far too stupid to understand anything” and then also seeing people encouraging teen girls to start an onlyfans the second they’re “legal” and seeing like teenvogue tell you how to suck dick. people don’t see teenage girls as mature enough to have opinions on anything actually important but somehow we’re mature enough to be nothing more than sex objects

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did you know that trans women’s brain structure is similar to cis women’s and unlike cis men’s, (and conversely, trans men’s is similar to cis men’s) ? so yeah what you feel is real and is not a creation of your brain. trans women are women and trans men are men.

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Ok so recently I’ve been looking at (strangely for the first time) blogs about traditional femininity - typically Christian women who embrace ‘traditional gender roles’ like crafting, cooking, cleaning and dressing up nicely for their husbands etc. Very few that I’ve seen espouse anything maliciously anti feminist and I have a lot of empathy for it all - wanting to escape to a pastel cottage with a loving spouse and a family and never having to work in an office is an understandable dream and I get it. But the bleakest fucking thing, the bleakest part of that whole scene, is that they think that by being kind and ladylike and subservient they will genuinely attract a Traditional Man with similar values who will cherish and love and protect them. But take a guess what I also found in this community! All of the ‘traditional gender roles’ blogs run by men, that these women happily interact with and consider to be a part of their movement, are porn. They’re not photos of old books and rose gardens and fresh pies like these women’s blogs are, they’re photos of women bound and bent over and serving their husbands naked in aprons and heels. And they’ll like or share a photo of a rainbow haired 21st Century punk girl in bondage gear just as soon as a photo of a blonde homemaker [on her knees] - they don’t give a single fuck about ‘tradition’ or family values, they are literally just every day run of the mill misogynists who have realised that they’re more likely to be given a living doll to abuse if they call themselves traditional. Obviously I don’t agree with the traditional femininity thing but above anything else I am so, so heartbroken for these women. Please know that men who openly talk about their love of upholding male dominance do not care how lovely and sweet you are, they hate us all just the same.

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*Content warning - discussion of child sexual abuse

In 2019 Collective Shout reported on then 19-year-old Instagrammer Belle Delphine selling her bathwater online. Belle’s bathwater sold out in rapid time, prompting significant Youtube commentary and media outlets reporting on the bizarre trade. In response, Instagram shut down her account.

In the lead up,  Collective Shout had documented behaviour more disturbing than the selling of bathwater. The movement had condemned the paedophilic aesthetic which is Delphine’s stock-in-trade, arguing any normalisation and eroticisation of children must be resisted.

The Instagram shutout was a win. But it was no surprise when Delphine migrated to other platforms, primarily Patreon and more recently OnlyFans, where she could better monetise her content.

The main appeal for her overwhelmingly male audience is her look: that of an anime figure orchestrated to appear much younger than she is, by wearing braces and children’s clothing, surrounded by the accoutrements of childhood, including soft toys. They flocked to her in droves, at a time when OnlyFans was on the ascendancy.

In mid-2020 content subscription service OnlyFans grew tenfold as the Covid crisis confined people indoors and forced many women out of jobs, as covered here and here.

OnlyFans is a site for creators to sell content to fans, but this material is largely pornographic and those ‘creators’ are disproportionately women.

OnlyFans offers a more personal encounter, with any woman able to create ‘girl next door’ style content. Whereas ‘cam girls’ of the past would talk to and perform live for e-johns in a studio or their own bedrooms, women on OnlyFans have to curate their entire persona day in day out and ‘chat’ to any buyers who message them.  

A consumer can pay Pornhub $20 for videos of millions of women, or pay one woman $20 for a more personalised experience. Ahead of the trend Pornhub made its ‘amateur’ category subscription only years ago, with viewers able to buy particular videos from certain profiles and ‘tip’ them. But OnlyFans is now the go-to platform for this content.

For Delphine it was a goldmine.  Last summer she went from earning $665,000 a month (of which OnlyFans takes a 20% percent cut), to netting millions of dollars a month by the end of the year, through branching out into hardcore video pornography.

With the release of two ‘professional’ porn videos, Delphine’s OnlyFans platform has rocketed.

This demonstrates how OnlyFans and wider porn hosting sites and social media now have a reciprocal relationship.

Delphine has become a crossover artist.  She not only uses social media to advertise her OnlyFans, but traditional porn sites now host video clips leaked from her OnlyFans, signposting viewers directly to it. In turn her OnlyFans links back to industry porn sites and her social media. That loop exists because it is lucrative for all platforms and parties involved.

At the age of 21, Delphine is now the highest paid ‘porn actress’ on the planet. The specific reasons for her success make for uncomfortable reading.

The year for Delphine began with being decried across the Twittersphere.

Delphine’s name trended on Twitter in January as she was admonished for the disturbing themes of her latest pornographic film. In the video, Delphine dresses in the clothes of a typically young adolescent girl, a man in a balaclava ties her up, kidnaps and drives her to the woods where she is depicted being forcibly raped against a tree. The video ends as many porn clips do; Delphine’s face is ejaculated on and slapped.

Due to her small stature and mode of dress (see below), Delphine resembles a child. The fact that she is bound and gagged is suggestive of  Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) – thus the widespread condemnation.  

Delphine’s first pornographic film, released one month earlier, had similar themes; she has sex with a man dressed as a teddy bear on a bed of children’s toys, the man remains disguised throughout by leaving the teddy bear mascot head on. Delphine again is dressed as a typical prepubescent child. Essentially, it’s a visual representation of sexual intercourse with a child (child rape) in a child’s bedroom, with a man dressed as a children’s toy.

Delphine also references other porn genres, such as hentai (as below with her holding a squid, a common character in hentai porn cartoons) to ensure wider promotion of her videos. (Hentai is illegal in Australia).

It is easy to recognise this depiction as a replication of child sexual abuse for a paying adult male audience. Some of Delphine’s OnlyFans content shows her behaving like an infant (thumb sucking, etc.) while using sex toys. She employs a number of app features to make herself look more infant-like and ‘kiddish’, in a cartoonish way.

But in the videos, the man in the balaclava who is seen forcibly controlling Delphine for sexual arousal, the person holding the camera filming the whole thing, and all who are profiting from the video’s circulation, have entirely escaped criticism.

Delphine doesn’t exist alone: she is supported by a system that treats profiting from catering to paedophilic fantasies as acceptable. She is the product of the sexualisation of girls from birth; and which rewards young women for adopting pornified roles and behaviours. Delphine’s content, while deserving condemnation, needs to be analysed within its broader contexts (see for example ‘We need to talk about ‘teen’ porn’, by James Evans, recently published by Collective Shout).

Yes Delphine is partaking in and reproducing porn culture, contributing to its pervasiveness, clearly incentivised by huge sums of money. But she is also a product of an already existing sphere of influence – the ubiquitous sex industry and its mainstreaming everywhere, including the social media platforms where she started out.

Delphine knows her audience, specialising in the tropes that have garnered a legion of paying e-johns thus far. The infantalisation of adults is the flipside to paedophilia’s adultification of children. Delphine’s anime image is a direct product of a culture where adolescent features are increasingly prolonged into adulthood, combined with vast numbers of men who are willing to pay pricey subscriptions for content that resembles child sexual abuse.

There have been personal costs to pay.  Delphine’s family have reportedly disowned her, something she makes rather tragic ‘jokes’ about, presumably in an attempt to exorcise the hurt caused. Undoubtedly, Belle’s astronomical rise has been facilitated by an army of Youtube reviewers, and normalised by various social media personalities’ fascination with her, all of who seem to find her an oddity to mock, and consider her a figure of fun.

The escalating extreme nature of porn – and its cross-promoting and cross-normalising on  social media – makes safeguarding and monitoring children’s internet use more difficult. Social media and Youtube are becoming direct gateways to porn consumption. Youtube has no age limit for viewership, and despite all the porn-related content you can find there, TikTok has an age restriction of only 13+. And many even younger children have accounts on it, able to watch and sing along to porn-style music videos like WAP.  

Porn is no longer an industry of its own, but permeates all levels of society, homes, schools, workplaces.  It is now as accessible for ‘content creators’ as it is for consumers.

Because of that mass proliferation, women making self-made porn need to specialise and cultivate a niche in what is now a saturated market. Belle Delphine has done this with her performative sexualised child-likeness. Other women will be pressured to partake in harmful and extreme practices to stand out from the crowd. Given the mega profits it attracts, it is likely we will see Delphine imitators.

Blurring between social media and pornography results in being able to interact with women as though they are your social media peers, but also consume them as sexual products.

What are the social effects? Porn becomes a completely dominant, all-encompassing ideology, promoting sexual servitude as the norm from Instagram to OnlyFans to Pornhub.

Mind Geek (owners of Pornhub) executives are currently being made to answer to the Canadian Parliament’s ethics committee for hosting illegal content including non-consensual sharing of images and Child Sexual Abuse Material.  See transcripts here and global letter calling for criminal investigation here.

Perhaps this historic examination of the largest pornography dispenser in the world will lead to a flow on look at what is being permitted elsewhere, including on social media and OnlyFans.  And perhaps the day is coming when normalising sexual interest in children for profit will no longer be tolerated.

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“Consent violation”, “scene gone wrong”

Too much words for blatant rape. They really likened it to a mundane boundary crossing.

#antikink #radfem #bdsm #antiporn

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I’m just so sick and angry.

TW: Misogyny, Ableism

Saw this pop up on Twitter last night and thought I'd share. Wasteofenamel (trans woman) tweeted about cis women complaining, Riamuofficial (radfem woman) engaged with the tweet, and Wasteofenamel replied with ableism and misogyny. This led to all of Wasteofenamels followers becoming increasingly misogynistic and ableist towards Riamuofficial. All posted below.

Anyways. The maleness is showing.

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To be a woman is to be “in a constant state of bargaining,” the author and columnist Nesrine Malik wrote in her book, “We Need New Stories.”

Ms. Everard’s disappearance called attention to the terms of a safety bargain so ubiquitous that many women might never have considered it in such terms: that in order to buy their own safety from male violence, they must make the “right” choices. And that if a woman fails to do so, her fate is her own fault.

Online, women shared the details of their side of that bargain. What they wore. Where they walked. Whom they checked in with before they left, and after they got home. When they would go out alone, or with other women, or with men.

Some reflected on their own close calls. Nosisa Majuqwana, 26, an advertising producer who lives in East London, said she told her friends, “Thank God I was wearing trainers, thank God I was carrying a rucksack” on the night a strange man approached her on a deserted path, pulled out a knife and told her to be quiet. “You would never walk home in London wearing heels.”

But Ms. Everard’s death has led Ms. Majuqwana and many others to reject the bargain outright.

“It doesn’t matter what women do,” Ms. Morgan said. “We can be hypervigilant, we can follow all the precautions that have been taught to us since we were children.”

…Why does the burden of women’s safety fall on women, rather than on the men who are the source of most of the violence against them?

“Women’s freedoms are seen as dispensable, as disposable — very much like sometimes, tragically, women ourselves,” Kate Manne, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University and author of two books on the ways sexism shapes society, said in an interview. “There is just an immediate assumption that men’s lives won’t be significantly affected by this,” so they cannot be asked to make sacrifices to change it.

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Hold up a sec; help me understand something. Your gf who you love with all your heart gets a miraculous once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring her strap to life for one night and have real sensation in it. She's super happy and excited that she'll get to feel what it's like being inside you and feel closer to you than ever before, and you'll both get to feel good together and maybe even come at the same time. You'd still tell her "no fuck off I don't do dick"?

I don’t think I can spare the energy to actually answer this question I’m too distracted by the unsettling second-person prose you’ve written about me and my nonexistent love life. Take it back to Wattpad and leave gay people in peace mayhaps? 

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#ReclaimTheseStreets

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ngl I don't get how it's feminist, progressive, or helpful at all to make fun of Ellen page's bangs or fashion or whatever from that photoshoot. idc if she doesn't look good, I thought part of our whole fucking point was demoralising women's appearances, and the fact that she buys into misogynistic trans bullshit shouldn't magically make it palatable to all of us to poke fun at how she looks when it's her ideology that's ugly. I kept waiting to see that photoset with a serious address of how distressingly thin she is, like she looks emaciated and unhealthy, but instead I keep seeing all these comparisons of her appearance to embarassing/negative things.

idc if you don't agree and wanna start shit over it, like I literally don't care y'all have fun with a screaming match in the notes, but Im disappointed and sad.

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Conservatives accidentally criticising capitalism when they’re trying to criticise women’s rights  

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holy shit i’m losing my mind

“neither am i” oh so you’re allowed boundaries but female lesbians aren’t? i’ve seen this argument so many times, trans lesbians who identify as such because they’re not attracted to penis but demand females are attracted to theirs… if this ain’t male entitlement…

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the “feminine women are more oppressed than masculine/gnc women because femininity is more frowned upon than masculinity” is the weirdest hill that libfems insist to die on

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Also, the way that the government will use sex work as a way to deny benefits to people is something that shouldn’t be ignored -  if sex work is legalized and therefore considered employment, you would need to report your earnings. If you refuse to engage in sex work, it could get you kicked off the program because you would be “refusing employment”. 

The Netherlands doesn’t allow sex workers to be considered eligible for a lot of benefits, so it’s not at all theoretical.

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i haven’t seen any posts regarding the outcry that’s happening in the UK right now so: the murder of sarah everard, who went missing in london last week and whose body was found a few days ago and the publication of a survey which found that 97% of women in the UK have experienced sexual harassment has caused public uproar about misogyny and violence against women. sarah, who went missing as she walked home from a friend’s house, did everything women are “supposed to” as she walked home in the dark: wear bright clothing, stick to main roads, walk under bright street lights. the last image of her alive is from CCTV footage taken about 30 mins walking distance from her home, in which she can be seen talking to her boyfriend on the phone. the man who’s been charged with her murder is a cop. and not just any cop, a diplomatic protection officer, which means he’s one of around 5% of cops in the UK that carries a gun, although he was allegedly off duty at the time. we don’t know how sarah was murdered yet, but her body, which was found dumped in woodland miles from her home, took a few days to properly identify for a yet unknown reason. (edit: she was identified by dental records, meaning she was no longer recognisable enough to be identified by a family member) FIVE independent investigations have been opened in connection to the cop’s arrest. the uk gov is going to debate making misogyny a hate crime. violence against women isn’t new, but the level of outrage this time is significant. women have had enough.

update: a peaceful vigil that was held tonight at clapham common, london, one of the last places sarah walked through before her abduction (source), has turned violent. (the relevant hashtag is #reclaimthesestreets.) the london met police are now snatching and arresting peaceful protestors, less than two weeks after one of their fellow officers snatched sarah off the street and murdered her. (sources x,x) sarah was a white woman, so this protest against the police is specifically with regards to their misogyny and male violence against women in general.

women in the UK have had enough.

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but why is it that when people talk about internalized misogyny it's always girls who hate on girls who are super feminine and never girls who mock other girls for not wearing makeup or having visible body hair? i dont think girls who think they're not like most girls are the #1 enforcers of patriarchy