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Excerpt from a 90s feminist website, aboutface.com, about (female) child exploitation (disgusting adverstisment image tw btw)

The predominance (77 PERCENT !!!) of girls being targeted is repulsive

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Excerpt from 90s feminism website, aboutface.com, about tokenism and misogynoir

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Excerpt from 90s feminist website, aboutface.com, about beauty culture

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What legalised prostitution looks like

A lot of well-meaning activists, including feminists, especially from countries that do not have legalised prostitution, advocate very loudly and very passionately for that legalisation. And I understand that, given I was one of those activists until a few years ago. But most people have no idea what legalised prostitution looks like, and back then, neither did I even though it was all around me. It's usually presented publicly as the pretty face of a luxury escort who smiles into the cameras and says she loves her job. But she represents perhaps ten percent of German prostitution - at most. So I figure I should talk about what it actually looks like. It looks like the owner of the Paradise brothel getting invited onto talkshows and lauded as a businessman, with his brothel seen as the epitome of the nice, clean, ethical German brothel, all certified and above-board, right until he was sentenced for human trafficking. It looks like Berlin's bio toilets, the city's grand solution to residents complaining about the street prostitution impossible not to notice along Kurfürstenstraße - let the women be raped in public toilets then, instead of in the street. Out of sight, out of mind. Most of the women along Kurfürstenstraße speak no German. Most are under control of a pimp. Many have no permanent address. But at least city council can pat themselves on the back for their little wooden toilet boxes. It looks like johns salivating at the idea of Ukrainian women, suddenly left homeless by war, ending up in German brothels - sadly not simply a fantasy of theirs, but a common occurrence. It looks like a group styling themselves as an NGO handing out flyers offering to help Ukrainian refugee women get into prostitution while the police tries to warn them about human trafficking. It looks like underage girls pulled out of legal or illegal brothels every other month. Like strip club ads on the public buses I had to take to school every morning. Like high-rise brothels with a different skin colour or nationality on each floor. Like flatrate brothel offers, finally outlawed after the sheer obvious abusiveness became too much for even our politicians to turn a blind eye to. Like boys in my eigth grade class joking about their dream job: being a pimp sounds good to them. It looks like survivor Huscke Mau leaving a talkshow for her treatment there, made to explain and defend her experiences, doubted, belittled. it looks like the Netzwerk Ella letters. It looks like casual "job offers" on the street; if one woman is for sale, all women are. It looks like one hundred women in prostitution murdered by johns or pimps since the legalisation came into effect in 2002. It looks like human trafficking experts estimating nine out of ten women in German prostitution being forced, by poverty, by trafficking, by a loverboy pimp, by addiction. Like Germany being the trafficking capital of Europe. Like eight out of ten women in German prostitution not being German. I could go on, but this is getting long, and I imagine my point has been made. The German government itself conceded in a review of the legalisation of prostitution that prostitution has become no safer, conditions have become no better, crime has not gone down, prostituted women have become no richer, and no one is factually getting any promised social benefits. But at least the state is getting brothel taxes. Now you know what legalised prostitution looks like. Maybe it's time we look at other approaches.

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Excerpt from 90s feminist website aboutface.com about violence against women

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“The word pornography, derived from the ancient Greek 'porne' and 'graphos", means "writing about whores." Porne means "whore," specifically and exclusively the lowest class of whore, which in ancient Greece was the brothel slut available to all male citizens.

The porne was the cheapest (in the literal sense), least regarded, least protected of all women, including slaves. She was, simply and clearly and absolutely, a sexual slave. Graphos means "writing, etching, or drawing."

The word pornography does not mean "writing about sex" or "depictions of the erotic" or "descriptions of sexual acts" or "depictions of nude bodies" or "sexual representations" or any other such euphemism. It means the graphic depiction of women as vile whores. In ancient Greece, not all prostitutes were considered vile: only the porneia.”

- Andrea Dworkin, Pornography (1981)

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Another day, another "unforseen" abuse against women.

Cambridge gave a village in northern India a bunch of drones and spy cams to watch wild life. And surprise, surprise: men immediately used it to film women using the bathroom in the forest and sharing it online. They buzz them with the drones while they're gathering lumber and food and it intimidates them out of singing and communicating. This leaves them more vulnerable to animal attack and is literally getting these women killed.

There's no neutral item that can't be turned into a weapon when men have hate in their hearts.

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that rule 34 thing about how “if it exists there’s porn of it” is really the closest men have come to admit that they’ll fetishize and strip the humanity of literally anything 

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Liberal feminists for men’s rights: "Men can cry" "Men can wear pink" "Men can wear dresses" "Men deserve flowers" "Men don’t have to pay the bills" "Men deserve princess treatment too" "Men's mental health matters" "Men deserve better" "Feminism is about equality" 🥺

Liberal feminists for women’s rights: "Women can sell their body to make money" "Women can wear sexy revealing clothes" "Women can be housewives serving their husbands" "Women can enjoy violent sex" "Women can have casual sex with men" "Feminism is about choice" 😍

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Normies on twitter have found about the term "febfem" and they are big mad about it.

Obviously they're pushing the "that's transphobic" line because that is the first line of attack whenever women try to set boundaries. But I think it is more they are enraged that a woman could find men sexually attractive and still choose to not date them. Quite a few people are going "just say lesbian", but lesbians don't find men attractive, like, by definition.

This ties back into something I was saying the other day about how normies will accept labels like "asexual" or "aromantic" but get enraged at 4B. Women are only allowed to set boundaries through the language of identity (to the extent that they are allowed to set boundaries at all), once you frame the desire not to have sex with someone as an active choice rather than an identity all the worst people online decide you are Lady Hitler for choosing to not have sex with them.

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God i prayed for the tide to turn for her. i’ll never forget for the rest of my life how she was treated

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Excerpt from 90s feminist website aboutface.com about workplace misogyny and the beauty industry

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“but feminism makes men uncomfortable sometimes” 

good

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Take the penetrative sex out of porn and you end up with men casually beating women

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if you watch porn you're disgusting and pathetic and i genuinely hope you die

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Incels work hard to prove they are assholes