#exploitation

[link1n]

This is years old, but the situation has since worsened.

[nando161mando]

That is the truth sadly

[kapitaali]

[aliliosblog]

I agree for most of it, except the sex work thing. I personally believe that a lot of the circumstances around sex work in the modern and pre modern age are problematic. A lot of them start under 16. There is almost always some type of abuse that comes into this line of work. The notion is mostly built around the exploitation of women for the benefit of men, porn is an example. It is also more coercive than a lot of types of work (also being coerced into sexual labor is different from being coerced into non sexual labor), at least under capitalism. It also, a lot of the time, perpetuates gender stereotypes. Sexuality should be normalised but for lots of people it isn’t a regular thing and shouldn’t have to be. There is aspects of sexuality like consent, privacy, health, psychology, intimacy, risks and diseases that are peculiar (not exclusive) to it. Therefore, it should be regulated. You can normalize it without necessarily treating it as a regular thing.

Lines of thought that seem Normal but are actually rooted in extreme puritanism:

-Seeing the nude human body is inherently traumatic -Sex scenes in art are pointless -Wearing kink-related clothing in public is the similar to performing a sex scene in front of unwilling participants -Depicting female characters expressing sexuality is always degrading -People's sexual fantasies are always an endorsement of the behavior they want to see in real life -Sex work is more traumatic and coercive than other types of work The goal is to treat sex as just another thing people do. That is a much healthier attitude than hiding it! It's not uniquely traumatic, it's not weird to talk about it or include it in society.

[rainbowpopeworld]

[kropotkindersurprise]

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

[profeminist]

“Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor – both black and white, both here and abroad.”

—  MLK, “The three evils of society,” 1967

[randomdeinonychus]

This is a fun flick if you can handle a very sleazy premise.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so theres a lot of posts going round about the titanic wreck and the missing submarines; all of them that ive seen have made very good points about how shoddy the submersible seemed to be and how the company decided to wait eight hours before reporting it, and how this is a play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the ultra-wealthy who paid like 250grand a ticket for this thing.

but what i havent seen any posts about is how the titanic wreck is a gravesite and this tourism is disturbing the graves of over 1500 people.

sometimes its kinda hard to remember that those on the titanic were real people; it was over a century ago, the story has been romanticised in so many ways (like the movie), theres conspiracies theories galore that cloud everything with misinformation, but at the end of the day, those who died were real people.

do you want their names? heres a list of them; its a long read. and for fun, heres another site where you can see photos of the children and babies who died aboard.

their bodies are long gone and their lives long forgotten. all we have to remember them and honour them is the wreck itself. its all we have of them and it is their gravesite. its their tombstone.

caitlin doughty/ask a morticians video on the great lakes discusses the topic well, and why we should leave these shipwrecks alone because again, they are the gravesites of all the souls who died aboard those ships. we rarely have bodies to recover so we really are left just with the wreck.

and what really upsets me about titanic tourism is how the majority of those who died that night were not the ultra-wealthy rich folks you might picture when you think of ocean liners.

61% of the first class passengers survived

42% of the second class passengers survived

24% of the third class passengers survived

24% of the crew survived **

the majority of those who died that night were regular folk; not to be cliche, but they were just like us. titanics wreck is not only a gravesite for over 1500 people, its also a majority working class gravesite.

and look at us now. look at what were doing. the ultra-wealthy can pay the equivalent of peanuts to them to disturb a mass gravesite of the exact kind of people they exploit today to hold onto all their wealth. 

its easy to point and laugh at these dumb idiots in their playstation controller submarine, seemingly held together with super glue and duct tape, but its also important to remember that what they were doing was simply disturbing a gravesite for fun. though the company does research, these guys werent down there to conduct research, they were there so they could brag about it to their friends. its like “climbing mount everest” while your sherpa does all the work.

if you cant tell, i have a lot of feelings about this. shipwrecks and ocean liners are one of my special interests and im currently building a (beginner’s) model of the titanic, for fucks sake. but i would never go down to see that wreck because its a fucking gravesite and we should not be disturbing their final resting place.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[weirdlookindog]

[anonyme-glace]

My big brother who finally figured out what I do for a living while he scrolls through tumblr and recognizes me wearing the sweater he got me for Christmas. Of course I don’t show my face but he knows it’s me. He knows he needs to scroll but he doesn’t. He watches me tease my nipples through it and watches as the sweater rides up my stomach. He watches me take the sweater off and cup my tits. He watches as I lean back and take off my panties. And he certainly watches when I begin to stretch myself out with a dildo that’s coincidentally the same length and girth as his cock. He messages me and starts sending me gifts and money. All this leading up to when he finally asks to do a facetime with me. He says he deserves it after all that’s he’s done for me.

Now my blog is all about couple posting. Posting sex tapes where I’m calling him my brother. But of course theirs no way that’s true, right?

[fefe600]

Their father was so awful they really had a dance party the day of his funeral 💀

[junglejim4322]

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. 2

[phobic-human]

"It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment .Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible."

- J.V. Stalin