Thoughtsofanangrywoman - I’m Angry

i went to a leftist festival last month and there was a panel dedicated to prostitution, why abolition is the only road to go for leftists and how to help and support prostituted women exiting the trade, and i keep thinking about that union organizer who said, "we hear more and more that 'sex work is work', but if that were true, then there'd be professional trainings leading to a qualification for prostitution, then there'd be prostitution diplomas, then high schoolers could send applications to follow those trainings and become prostitutes. but we all know that all these things don't exist, and if they did exist we would all recognize them for what they are: a grooming business encouraging pedophilia and violence against women and girls." and what she said later; "trade unions that argue that 'sex work is work' never engage in legal battles against pimps or brothel owners. they don't even recognize that pimps are the bosses of the prostitution market. "sex workers' trade unions" don't fight pimps because sex workers' unions don't represent the alleged "workers" (prostituted women), they represent the bosses: pimps."

and that made me think of what Kajsa Ekis Ekman said about the trade unions that consider prostitution to be work and prostituted women to be workers: they offer trainings about condom use and spend millions of dollars funding "worker peer education" about "safe sex".

So one again, it's prostituted women who are held responsible for the spreading and the prevention of STDs - not the johns, not the pimps. the prostituted women, many of them victims of sex trafficking. "As human trafficking expert Malka Marcovich has pointed out, this means a return to nineteenth-century ideals of hygiene, where the onus was “primarily on the women to take responsibility for the health of ‘the customer’, so diseases would not be spread to their families” (2007, p. 347)."

It's quite obvious to any trade union organizer that prostitution is not work and the sex trade can't be organized as a trade union. a few months ago, the biggest unions in my country (which included the traditional left-wing trade unions as well as students' unions) issued a paper condemning the 'sex work is work' narrative and the pimp lobbies got so mad about that because they know their strategy isn't working because leftists know what left-wing politics look like and they know women's liberation doesn't come from prostitution. Now it's interesting that the biggest voices of the "sex work is work" movement come from the USA, where the anticapitalist left doesn't exist. American liberals love to pass reactionary politics as revolutionary but not because they are stupid in their own country does it mean they should influence the actually left-wing labour movement in other countries, right?

also like war happens for reasons. when the Americans massacred and raped civilians in Vietnam they did this because every villager was a potential communist or a sympathizer and if you threatened them with death and sexual violence they would be too afraid to help the communists because the costs were potentially too high. they did not do this for no reason, or because they were "evil" , they did it because it was intended to have implications and effects on the conflict. It obviously did not have the intended effects entirely, and Vietnam was liberated despite the Americans best efforts at terrorizing and subjugating its people. but the Americans were not committing war crimes against Vietnamese people for ethereal reasons stemming from the inate nature of good and evil but rather because they thought it would be an effective strategy to win a guerilla war and because they didn't see Vietnamese people as people

"why should I care about Africa"---> lives in a country that's upheld by the current and past exploitation and destabilization of Africa

No bro sorry. I don't think it's cool or cunty that zendaya was trained to wear heels that she said were painful since she was 14. Sorry bro. I just don't.

In an alternate universe, societies that use oral tradition are coming out with studies proving that "documents", a primitive writing system used by various tribes in Europe to keep track of history, are actually very accurate despite common wisdom being that physical documents are so easy to destroy or forge that they couldn't possibly be relied on to contain any truth