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[someone-will-remember-us]

A new law in Belgium celebrated by activists for providing a “labour contract” to prostitutes will also enable their pimps to punish them with a government mediator if they refuse sex more than 10 times in a six-month period. The Belgian Parliament voted for the law on May 3, with 93 in favor, zero opposed, and 33 abstentions.  

The legislation is being touted as a win by UTSOPI, the Belgium Union of Sex Workers, which had lobbied extensively for the legislation. The law outlines that prostitutes will receive health insurance, a pension, maternity and holiday leave, and unemployment benefits. Their pimps will be forced to provide them with a “safety button” to use for emergencies.

Their website claims that the law “is a historic step in the battle for sex workers’ rights” and will create a “respectful, fair relationship” between prostitutes and their pimps, with UTSOPI spokesperson Daan Bauwens telling media that he believes “Belgium is really demonstrating that it aims to protect sex workers, regardless of any moral judgements about the profession people may have.”

Prostitutes are to be granted “rights” to refuse sexual acts, stop sexual acts, perform sexual acts in the manner they prefer, and refuse to sit behind Amsterdam-style windows (public facing windows where prostitutes are on display). However, should a prostitute use these “rights” 10 times within six months, their pimp can then call on a government mediator to intervene.

All pimps must have a registered office and apply to the Belgian government for approval to offer contracts to prostitutes. The contracts will be disguised as hotel-restaurant-café (HoReCa) contracts so that prostitutes can remain anonymous.

Andrea Heinz, a prostitution abolition advocate, called out the new legislation on X (formerly Twitter).

“There is little chance this will (actually) favour women. Under legalization/full decrim, pimps become ‘managers’ with the backing of the state to further entrench and maintain their power. Pimps see women they sell as products, not people deserving of full dignity & respect.”

Outside the realm of so-called “sex work” activism, social media users have expressed horror at the new law.

“So the [government] helps pimps to coerce sex, what a disgusting idea,” posted X user @Bob16747466.

[kthulhu42]

Look at that response.

"You're very strong to have kept the faith, and signed up for *further surgical intervention and more pain*"

This person has undergone painful and distressing medical experimentation and people are applauding them for their bravery and faith.

[queerism1969]

[vouam]

I love radfems that aren’t afraid to criticise certain religions.

I would like to see more of it tbh, a lot more.

I live in a country that is not very religious, and so sometimes feminists in my country don’t address it as much as they should. Think about the entire worlds population and the prevalence of religion in society, its impact on culture, the government, the law. Almost all of the oppressive ideology promoted by major religions is aimed at women.

Here’s just a few things that major religions promote/justify:

- Child marriage

- Sex slavery

- Purity culture

- Modesty culture

- Victim blaming

- Less inheritance for women

- Women’s witness testimony worth less than a man

- Silencing of women in public spaces

- Polygamy only for men

- Gendered stereotypes

- No financial freedom for woman

- Physical abuse

- Emotional and verbal abuse

The list goes on and on and on, this just scrapes the surface.

I honestly argue that these religions should be one of main things we address and fight against. They are the blueprint of modern patriarchy.

[mandyfem]

women needing safety/privacy from males= bigots

They'd wanna invade the bigot bathrooms too after a while because how dare women have anything for themselves.

[ruger35mm]

FEMinism is for FEMales

[redditreceipts]

here's something for y'all lovely transmed people

okay then go to therapy and learn to cherish the fact that you're not affected by dysphoria lmao

these people are just plainly talking themselves into mental illness, instead of being glad that they're not affected by one of the most devastating and crippling psychological horrors: the feeling that your body is not your own

I mean I myself am not horribly dysphoric (though it has been worse, admittedly), and I don't say that I understand someone that feels that they have to medically change their body so they can feel well. But even for me it seems so offensive and contradictory: If you actually had dysphoria, you wouldn't wanna have it lol

but well I guess mental illness and developmental disabilities are next on the chopping block for things you can just identify into by sheer power of will without showing any symptoms

[kanelia]

[kkoffin]

DOES ANYONE, ANYWHERE, HAVE A PDF OF

Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Women’s Liberation by Andrea Dworkin

PLEASE??? I CANT EVEN BUY IT ANYWHERE, BEST I FOUND IS A $40 HARDCOVER?? HELP

[radmeet]

Hi radblr friends !

This account is dedicated to sharing resources for radfems all around the world to connect based on location or interests.

It was created following an idea formulated by @unabombastic in this post :

I will reblog in the following days all resources, discord server links and related posts I have found. Most of these were compiled from @nansheonearth .

From now on my dms and askbox will be open to any suggestion. You can send me links I may not have seen before or asks if you want to meet up / chat with radfems from your area.

I try to organise the posts the best I can with the main following tags :

location

discord

follow train

organisation

suggestion

and other specific locations (countries, states, cities), hobbies or demographics (see : woc, lesbians etc).

Currently working on : [List of pre-existing Discord servers]

For now, reblogs are queued until May 16th.

NB : This is a sideblog.

[kthulhu42]

Trying to not let the anger get the better of me but I just saw a bunch of Trans-identified-males post their "pregnant bellies" on tiktok for mothers day and of course I am currently VERY personally involved in this situation

And they're just so fucking pathetic and disgusting and their captions are straight up lies "I'm the first trans woman to have a uterus transplant, I'm going to be a mother" and it's all bullshit

They have no idea how overwhelming and scary and life-changing it all is, they just want to pose with their fucking taco bell bloat to get Internet clout

[vouam]

TikTok I just saw… (the audio says “let’s fucking go? let’s go!”)

It’s genuinely so fucking dystopian how a male can feel some type of euphoria from misogyny.

The creator then made a response video to some of the criticism and basically said ‘regardless of if you think I’m a woman or not, I look like a woman, so I am one and I experience misogyny.’

Firstly.. imagine how tired we are! You’ve spent years trying to emulate us, imagine how it feels when we’ve been perceived as female since childhood. Men are sexist to women because of our sex, it’s in the name. Being that sex and having the struggles that come with it vs being misidentified as that sex are very different things.

Secondly.. looking like a woman and redefining ‘woman’ as an identity and not sex are also two very different things. I have no problem with men that look like women, but calling the word ‘woman’ an aesthetic, a set of physical or psychological traits, or ANYTHING other than chromosomes is insanely offensive and negates hundreds of years of activism that gnc woman have fought for, and died for.

[yonistic]

TIFs claim to not understand sex-based oppression & still have an issue with “AMABS”:

TIMs claim to not understand sex-based oppression & still know exactly who to threaten with sexual violence:

[feliaes]

men be like "if women are really that intelligent, why are all major discoveries made by men? 🤓" as if they didn’t quite literally burn women alive if they were smart back in the day

[kkoffin]

Friendly reminder to the Americans to remember that other countries exist, and ur way of spelling and measuring things is in fact, the odd one out. Remember this before u embarrass urself like this.

Makes sense tho for a TIM scrolling thru radfem tags to find something to be mad abt lol. How on earth can you consider leaving ur country when ur so busy starting fights on tumblr.com for no reason? and what on earth do you mean cultural differences exist?