#anti exploitation

[alyceinwonderland777]

You are against the sex industry because you see sex as something "sinful" and don't see sex workers as human beings. I am against the sex industry because of its exploitative nature.

We are not the same.

[aloeverawrites]

Is there an anti slave labour, anti human exploitation symbol that’s as regulated as vegan ones? Because I really feel there should be, we should make it as easy as possible for people to boycott.

[vegantinatalist]

Anyone and everyone is welcome to send me asks or dms with questions about veganism! I am like a walking library and very much encourage it.

[tummyyummies]

exploiting anyone on film is bad, male, female, animal, it's all bad and evil people

[prodigalwitch]

Not only do men lack the basic empathy not to exploit women for their own sexual entertainment, but they also have the NERVE to come online and brag about it. Calling marginalized women “wild animals”? Making jokes about the fact that she was eastern European- and therefore likely trafficked into this? Absolutely callous and cruel.

And yet, he receives virtually no backlash. In fact, most of the comments are calling him "precious" because he claims to have 'fallen in love' -with a woman he knew all of 20 minutes, objectified, made fun of, and barely spoke to- or "hilarious" for his sexist little jokes.

We truly are in hell!

[mxjackparker]

The only way in which selling sex is exceptional as a form of work is that it involves having sex.

Sex work is not more emotionally intimate than all other forms of work. Emotional intimacy can be involved in therapy, care work, and writing about deeply personal topics.

Sex work is not the only form of work which can involve genital contact. This happens in medical environments, care work and when giving genital piercings.

Sex work is not uniquely dangerous. Fishing, construction and underwater welding all have high fatality and injury rates.

Sex work is not more prone to trafficking than all other forms of work. People are trafficked in huge numbers in the agricultural industry and for the manufacture of textiles.

Sex work is not the only form of work which involves frequent sexual harassment. People are often sexually harassed whilst doing bar work, waiting tables and providing health care and social assistance.

Sex work is not the only type of work that is criminalized. Other types of work like busking without a license, drug dealing, con artistry and any kind of job which requires authorisation form a third party where that isn't obtained.

Stop it with the sex work exceptionalism! Treat it like other work.

[kropotkindersurprise]

Michael Parenti on the extraction of wealth from the so-called Third World by Western Capitalism. [video]

[rainbowpopeworld]

[nando161mando]

Hmmmm I wonder if there's a connection here.....

[nando161mando]

Disabling features to make money

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

[shutinthenutouse]

[fallofthecelestial]

Okay. Since we're going over all the takes on Mr. X at this point.. What if his powers really don't have a backside. What if (the state of) his normal life is the backside.

What if his normal life is akin to that of heroes where he has to pretend to be something he's not and follow rules that the people who control his life came up with to further their own goals. What if he can only be free of other people's beliefs and expectations when he's a hero.

What if in reality he truly is like everyone else. The other heroes. The ordinary people. All those who work themselves to the bone, who are tired and overworked and sick of all the exploitation...

What if when he's in the form of the number one hero.. when he becomes the most sought after product on the hero market..

Is when he gains the freedom to truly be himself

[veganfairylights]

So we should let endangered animals go extinct as some have recovered well what in zoos? Should we let the ones born there die in the wild as they can’t properly function outside?

The majority of animals in zoos are not endangered. They are simply there because humans want to look at them. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also, if zoos truly had the animals' best interests at heart, they wouldn't allow visitors. They'd build bigger enclosures. They'd focus on keeping the animals wild and not letting them get used to humans, ever.

There are thousands of wildlife sanctuaries that actually focus on saving endangered species without submitting them to unnecessary, stressful human contact.

@acti-veg has a post going more into detail.

And to answer your last question: if an animal cannot survive in the wild, that doesn't mean that a zoo is its best option. Yes, it may need human help to survive, but it doesn't need spectators. It doesn't need a tiny enclosure. It needs as much freedom as it can get with as little human intervention as possible, and that is something that zoos are never going to provide, because at the end of the day, they're using animals as entertainment and for profit. And that will always be unethical.

[nando161mando]

The only real solution