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I think this messaging that sex is just the same as any other activity, that there are no special social conditions or statuses or emotions attached to it and that it’s just something you do has rotted people’s brains. In your attempts to normalize a human activity in the face of conservative shame mongering you have so removed the social complexities of sex that you have run right back around into the embrace of rape culture.

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Average “the sex industry should be regulated not illegal ❤️ sex work is work” liberal when asked to expand on exactly what protections they think these women deserve

posts that prove horseshoe theory. put respect on OSHA's name right now.

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I just wonder why no one campaigns so hard on what workers “want” when it’s not prostitution. Have you ever met a trades man? Unless they have risen high enough it’s in their job description, they hate OSHA and safety compliance and safety restrictions. Every year roofing remains one of the highest if not the highest fatality jobs because men refuse to take the 3 minutes to put on proper safety gear. They would rather fall to their deaths than wear a harness correctly. And yet we don’t have anyone on the left campaigning on their “human rights” to do their job more efficiently, to do their job how they are comfortable, to do it how they want. We don’t have anyone saying OSHA makes it harder for roofers to earn a living or calling OSHA roof worker exclusionary for protecting their safety against their and their clients’ wills.

And yet any time even the most basic of protections for prostituted women is brought up you all fall hook line and sinker for pimp propaganda and start yelling about how required condoms will ruin the porn industry and how lawmakers are to blame for taking income away from vulnerable sex workers. You see it in how everyone always says “legalize and regulate” but no one can ever name what those regulations should be.

Like you guys call yourselves leftists and then side with the bosses who are openly saying they will retaliate against their “workers” if safety regulations pass. And you think you are on the right side of history

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I think part of the reason we like to think of progress as linear is to shield ourselves from the horror of history. It’s a nicety to think that people of bygone eras thought in some fundamentally different way from ourselves, a less enlightened way. In this way we delude ourselves into thinking maybe it wasn’t so bad for them. Maybe our grandmothers didn’t suffer as we would in their place; after all, they didn’t know any better.

They knew.

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Why do companies even bother having a rewards program if they’re gonna be stingy about it. Do not come into my inbox if you are offering less than 25% off. “$1 off if you spend $25 or more TODAY ONLY” don’t piss me off

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People talking about grade inflation as this crisis of education always seem to miss the root cause of all this, which is capitalization of the higher education system. “Kids aren’t earning their grades anymore” yeah because professors have hearts and they know the difference between an A and a B could mean tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships lost. And on the high school level, universities have to continually refine their acceptance criteria to maintain the artificial scarcity that generates their profits, and high school teachers and counselors and students all know this. How is a high school teacher supposed to grade impartially knowing it could be the difference between a child going to college or not? Between a child escaping poverty or not?

As long as the higher education system is allowed to remain for-profit grade inflation will continue, because we have allowed grades to be turned into a currency. As long as the exchange rate between As and scholarships keep going down, the teachers will keep grading higher and the students will keep padding their resumes because it’s that or lie down and give it all up at 18

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There are ways to talk about the horrors of pregnancy and birth that don’t directly call women’s bodies after birth ruined and mutilated btw, a weird and insane thing to say about a vulnerable person who has just gone through a significant medical event. Like you guys can personally oppose ever being pregnant or giving birth without being misogynistic assholes

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Average internet leftist right now

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You can pry dunking out of my cold wet hands

stop dunking things it makes them annoying to read

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NEVER kill yourself (saw an older lesbian couple irl)

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Every social media should have a dislike button and you should not be able to turn the stats off

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Sorry all the conspiracy theories about tiktok being shut down because The People were being too revolutionary and radical is kind of insane to me. Tiktok? The tiktok where young girls are told they need to prevent wrinkles at 18? The tiktok where Amber Heard’s rape testimony went viral as a soundbite to mock? The tiktok where the misinformation is so thick no one could even identify why there was a boycott against Starbucks? Do you guys think just maybe it was more to do with the fact that multiple American billionaires’ share prices were affected by the app’s success? Perhaps?

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I never thought I would see the stage of internet leftism where people are saying it’s actually your moral imperative to be scammed and, furthermore, promote scams on the off chance it might be a real person

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I love tumblr lol. Where else can you get takes like “the patriarchy exists because men hate sex” you all are so dumb it’s like crack

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Okay maybe no one’s immune to scam tactics but let’s not pretend intelligence has nothing to do with it. Like at the end of the day some of yall really are just stupid

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A mutual will always be their icon to me. Idc what I know about you in my head you look like your icon. You could be blogging about like being bent over the toilet w period cramps and in my head that’s george costanza with anime blush doing that