#feminist labor

[certifiedgrrrlkisser]

SW is a majorly fucked up and exploitative industry but since OF is self-employed I think it functions differently from a pimping or studio model. Ofc there might still be powers the website has over you, Idk those details. I would still think it would be a lot less than a pimp or John could have over you in-person.

You're correct that there is less direct interpersonal exploitation, however there is still significant social coercion due to capitalism.

I am NOT anti sex worker. I fully believe sex workers should be protected and there ARE ways to minimize potential exploitation. OF can be one although you never know what goes on behind the camera. Legalization and regulation are necessary but the Nordic model actively harms sex workers.

My critique of the sex industry comes from a labor feminist standpoint and honestly extends beyond just the sex worker industry as a larger labor critique. I believe all labor is exploitative when people are unable to have full autonomy when deciding how they want to labor. Under capitalism, no one has full autonomy in choosing their profession because we are all coerced by financial need. Sex work is scrutinized far more harshly because it is a female-dominated field. However, there is still valid feminist critique of SW as an industry. In sex work, (primarily) women are expected to "sell their body" like all other physical laborers, but they are also expected to sell the experience of intimacy in a way that even traditional customer service roles do not.

I find Catharine MacKinnon to be largely repulsive due to her blatant ignorance regarding lesbians and BDSM (as well as her bioessentialist beliefs that all men are pre-destined to be rapists due to male sexual desire) however she was correct about one thing:

If prostitution is a free choice, why are the women with the fewest choices the ones most often found doing it?

Catharine MacKinnon (1993) “Prostitution and Civil Rights”. Michigan Journal of Gender & Law vol 1 https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1192&context=mjgl

MacKinnon rightfully points out that women who are already marginalized and exploited are more likely to enter the sex work industry. Why is this? Capitalism.

I have written a short paper on feminist labor critique (covering both sex work and domestic labor) and I will publish it to my substack when I find the time to re-edit it.

[liberaljane]

Reproductive labor is work -- typically designated to women -- that is required to sustain human life. It's unpaid, and is often invisible or unnoticed.

This includes tasks like cooking, cleaning, caring for children and more necessary to raise future generations. It's time to bring visibility to this labor, and acknowledge it for what it is: work. Far too many women and fems take on the bulk of household and domestic tasks in addition to having full time jobs -- also known as the 'second shift.' It's time to end gender inequality at home.

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[womendeservehumanity]

I’m already over the delivery driver discourse but it’s so funny how leftists will put your head on a spike if you dare say prostitution is slavery because “sex work is real work!” and “prostitution is the oldest profession in the world”. Yet it’s perfectly sound to call delivery drivers “burger slaves”.

Somehow it’s more degrading and debilitating to drive to a restaurant, pick up food, and deliver it to someone’s house. THATS slavery.

Yet this 👇🏾 isn’t

[redditreceipts]

amazon telling their workers to not join a union because they are concerned about *checks notes* privacy

[uter-us]

radfem help !!

2 of my little cousins (14yrs and 15yrs) are both girls dating boys right now, and together we are coming up with a "dealbreaker list" of things they will never put up with from their bfs! and also we are including positives, like so they aren't just looking for the absence of bad things, but actual positive things

what do yall think are the most important things to add? (i put extra info in tags)

Thank you so much!!!

[radicalfacts]

radical facts - short feminist facts

#patriarchy

Women's unpaid Labour

Worldwide, women and girls perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. This work adds $10.8 trillion to the economy every year.

With this unpaid "shadow-labour" alone, women contribute as much as 6.6 percent to the global GDP.

It exceeds the combined revenue of the 50 largest companies on last year’s , including Walmart, Apple and Amazon.

(Data via Oxfam & ILO)

[atopvisenyashill]

There were so many ways to die, and if the king should perish, who then would follow him? King Aegon himself, when asked, put forward his cupbearer, Gaemon Palehair, reminding the regents that the boy had “been a king before.”

As a bastard born of a whore, Gaemon counted for little in the court, so when Ser Gareth asked Lord Peake to make the lad the king’s whipping boy, the Hand was pleased to do so. Gaemon’s blood and Gaemon’s tears reached the king as none of Gareth Long’s words ever had, and His Grace’s improvement was soon marked by every man who watched him in the castle yard, but the king’s mislike of his teacher only deepened.

[hairtusk]

Marilyn French, The Women's Room (1977)

[toongrrl-blog]

Oh my God, I hate all of them...Men. I, uh, hate men. Mark, Bash...Even when I'm fucking the cute young ones, I just, I like to take my hand and just, pfft, crunch their face into the pillow, just hard because they are just so free. They make the choices. They dictate the terms and I just hate asking them for anything.

Debbie Eagan, GLOW "Outward Bound"

[gacha-incels]

post edited July 18th with new info ✌️ from the Feminism Thought Verification Joint Response Comimitee (link is to the Korean Women’s Workers Association’s repost) regarding the wildly misogynistic post in the Hyundai Heavy Industries branch of the Metal Workers Union newsletter. the company urged the removal of an advertisement where a hand that was kind of in the 🤏 could be seen. sorry it auto translated this as “water polo girlfriend” idk what this means but it doesn’t really change the overall message of what you’re reading. this is how the page in the newsletter looked

the autotranslate on the right side idk it’s kind of a mess, you can try doing it on your own time or help me out if you would like, but the other side is readable and you can see how unbelievable it is to put something like this in a newsletter. saying you need to “fix” feminists at a psychiatric hospital, on the other side it said these are women with “mental leprosy” putting this secret man hating hand everywhere…there’s something so fundamentally revolting seeing such angry, violent and gleeful misogyny posted like it’s normal, and then these guys act like they’re actually the victims of what they think is a “female dominated society” and it’s women’s fault they can’t get jobs.

more information as provided by @sagaschan ! Thank you

NEW- Hyundai branch’s apology

(end of the new section)

the rest of the article on the KWWA site. again this is basic mtl so you’re getting what you’re getting, nothing perfect but enough to understand the basics like usual…

[liberaljane]

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[femmefatalevibe]

Hey, I've recently discovered a Youtube channel, The Financial Diet, and they have some really good material. I've mostly been listening to the stuff about how domestic chores aren't evenly distributed in marriage. Whether a woman chooses to be a career woman or a housewife, she's still getting the short end of the stick and will usually bare the majority of the weight for the household. I'd recommend this video in particular, Solving The Problem Of The Adult Toddler Husband. They bring up some really good points that have sat with me since I first watched it. For example, a group of very accomplished women left the house for 2 hours and WWIII broke out at home because their husbands couldn't manage. All the women had to abandon their plans and go tend to the house. Hearing stuff like this gives me pause. I'd really like to get married and be a mother, but it just seems like a bad business move, no matter the type of man a woman marries. I'm not the sacrificial type--I want to be a mother and a wife and still maintain my own identity. Just thought I'd share this here because I live in a region where I'm not allowed to bring up these issues lest I sound like a, feminist (*gasp*).

Hi love! Yes, I think The Financial Diet channel is great. Chelsea has some great, easy-to-understand tips regarding personal finance/money management, and I love her guest contributors/podcast guest episodes. Oh, this notion highlighted in this episode is SO true IRL. A 2008 study found that husbands add 7 hours of housework a week to their wives' plates, while wives decreased a husband's household chores by 1 hour per week.

Check out Melanie Hamlett on TikTok if you want to dive further into this topic. She labels the man in this dynamic under the patriarchy as "King Baby," and it gets me every time!

The Commercialization Of Intimate Life by Arlie Russell Hochschild is a wonderful read on this topic (and the most intersectional text I've found on the subject).

Glad to share more on this topic in the future if there's interest xx

[redditreceipts]

One of the worst consequences of patriarchy is unequal pay and the bad working conditions for women. These include: 

no maternal leave

discriminatory hiring practices

harassment from higher-ups and colleagues

lesser pay 

no or bad healthcare benefits

etc. 

Also, the jobs typically occupied by women are paid worse around the world, while oftentimes being more demanding and higher in stress, such as nurses, teachers, cleaning personnel, etc. 

Material equality is crucial for women’s liberation! 

In the United States, women in unions make higher wages and reduce the gender pay gap significantly. Women in unions on average make 205 $ more per week. The union bonus is higher for women than for men, especially for Latina and Black women: unionized Latinas make 271 $ more per week, while Black women make 175 $ more per week. This effect is also true for Asian and white women (Asian women in unions make more than men lmao)

Unions provide health protection for female workers in precarious working conditions: 84 percent of unionized workers have access to employer-sponsored healthcare, while only 54 percent of non-unionized workers have access to healthcare 

Patriarchy is a social construct that was implemented to extract free labour from women. Patriarchy is a justification for lesser pay, worse jobs, harassment in the workplace and a healthcare system that is centered around the male body. 

If you want to help women, especially women of color, join a union today!

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[womenshistory]

Cornelia De Bey (May 26, 1865 – April 3, 1948)

Suffragette, homeopathic doctor, labor advocate, and Chicago public school administrator.

De Bey advocated for major school administration reform, exposing corruption, more democratic decision-making, and the unionization of teachers. She was involved in the Settlement House Movement — a reform movement which prioritized women's involvement in Progressive Era reforms — and the Women's Trade Union League, and was a member of the Woman's City Club of Chicago.

[defleftist]

Being the oldest daughter of a divorced father means going home for the holidays involves such a great level of physical and emotional labor I don’t know that I classify this time as restful in the least.