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angelbutt_dollface posted:

this newslady is upset because some jerko sent her an email that was all huffy about her weight which makes sense i guess but then she starts acting like she's been cyberbullied and eventually compares getting an email telling her to slim down to problems people face wrt racism, ableism and the like which pretty much forced my eyeballs to roll completely around and im now looking at my own brain


lol i just watched this and lol

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lol http://www.ibtimes.com/kenneth-krause-stands-email-bullying-wkbt-anchor-jennifer-livingston-being-fat-video-799729
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according to the internet that's ron livingston from office space's sister

gonna need you to just go ahead and lose 60 pounds, mmkay? thaaanks

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Recently I was reading an essay called "Disarming Images" about an exhibit of art for nuclear disarmament which was held in the early 1980s. And I noticed that the author of this essay points out that according to the dictionary, Webster's Third International Dictionary, the name "bikini" given to the bathing suit comes from comparing "the effects of a scantily clad woman to the effects of an atomic bomb." When you think about this, and you think about the horrendous death, destruction, mutilation and suffering alive before dying that was caused by the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Japan, and what would result from the much more powerful nuclear weapons these monsters have today—when you think about all that, and you think about the reasons for naming the bikini after all that, and what kind of view of women this promotes—do you need any other proof about how sick this system is, and how sick is the dominant culture it produces and promotes?

Bob Avakian
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Revolutionary Communist Party
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i dont get it
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i get it, and onc eagain he's right
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reo tweedwagon
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um actually the castle bravo test was like 15 megatons and modern warheads rarely break half a megaton. "more powerful weapons" my ass. their just more destructive cos of MIRVs and improved targeting systems get your facts right avakian god
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pfft at least fat discrimination is recognised by some people, i got probated again on somethingawful because of my moral and political beliefs, that's oppression, Classicists are the victims of discrimination and bigotry but you don't hear about that in the media.
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paging klamsek: w/r/t the question of whether working for minimum wage is more dehumanizing for a westerner than working in sex work and having some agency. thoughts????

Hi! I'm a sex worker. And I'm avoiding doing my homework so I'm going to go on a rant.

I've done many different kinds of sex work. I've been a cam girl, a porn performer, a professional sub, and a performer at a peep show (similar to a stripper). I've also been working in retail and food service simultaneously.

I get so frustrated at how I'm treated at work. It really gets to me. I find myself involuntarily crying once I get into my car to drive home. I hate how dehumanizing it is. People don't acknowledge me as a person. They think I'm less than them because of my job. Maybe they don't actively think that, but that's how they treat me. Oh, by the way, I'm talking about the food service job.

When I'm doing sex work I can refuse a customer. I can be rude to them if they are being rude to me. I don't have to apologize for their mistakes. I don't have to be sweet when they are being inappropriate. I negotiate my limits, and I only do what I feel comfortable doing. They don't get to order off the menu, I'm not going to bend over backwards for them.

I find it oppressive to work for minimum wage. I find it oppressive to act like the customer is always right. I find it dehumanizing to apologize for things that aren't my fault, like how much something costs or if you order something wrong and you want it remade the correct way. I find it dehumanizing to say "Hi! How are you?" and in response get "Yeah I just need a blah blah blah" and then have a customer go back to their cell phone conversation. I hate being reduced to a cash register.

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i think part of the problem is that the issue is framed as "can a reasonable woman consent to having sex for money". and i think that is obviously true. but the issue is more that men are abusing women. like i think that having sex with a prostitute is abusing a woman, for the same sort of reason that having sex with a child is (it is a distortion of consent that can reasonably cause harm). and i don't mean that in a wholly liberal way, i mean like it is a shameful and damaging thing to women as a class. so the law isn't designed even to protect this or that woman, but women as a whole. this is similar to how obviously you can have sex with an underaged child and they might be fine with it, but the point is to help people in that situation and not this or that specific child.
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getfiscal posted:

like i think that having sex with a prostitute is abusing a woman, for the same sort of reason that having sex with a child is


so women are basically children?

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Petrol posted:

so women are basically children?

i mean that when they are put into a position where they are commodifying their bodies then there is a distortion of consent, like, you can't go by what an individual woman says about it because they are put into that position by their class. there is also a general sort of harm that comes from commodifying women's bodies (an externality) which would be sort of repugnant to cost into the situation in my mind.

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tpaine is a sex worker in the niche field of "bacne farming"
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the answer to the externality, of course, is to buy commodification offsets with every porn download/lap dance
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gyrofry posted:

the answer to the externality, of course, is to buy commodification offsets with every porn download/lap dance


Yeah but where would the money go to? Like you can't plant trees to combat rape culture.

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getfiscal posted:

Petrol posted:
so women are basically children?
i mean that when they are put into a position where they are commodifying their bodies then there is a distortion of consent



perhaps the same could be said for all labour

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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

perhaps the same could be said for all labour

which is why i support criminalizing the hiring of labour. :angel: