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@getting_hurt desperately trying to call off their attack dogs from our fb/insta pages cos making their community look bad when it is groups like theirs responsible for breeding/enabling/emboldening them in the 1st place. #vaw #mvaw #onlineabuse #misogyny Image
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For those who don't know: I have a YouTube channel with feminist content discussing #prostitution, #porn and other forms of #MVAW and #objectification. Here are my 2 cents on #WAP and #OnlyFans. Image
Making the point for me: Just by using the hashtag #OnlyFans I get DMs asking if I need help promoting my account (which doesn't exist). Well, I shall use the opportunity to once again share the face of the pimp-pornographer who is making most of the money here: Meet Tim Stokely. ImageImage
Tim Stokely - owner of #OnlyFans - is literally a banker's son and long-time pornographer. Every person calling this form of online "sex work" empowering looks like an absolute clown, once you apply basic critical thinking. Porn culture is made by men for men. Through and through
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I'm really trying to understand this. Where are all the women and feminists who would be raging through the streets if this story was about a man and a tabloid abusing survivors’ trust?
news.com.au/national/unpro…
I understand supporting friends when they’ve made mistakes. I understand we should never support mob attacks and pile-ons, particularly if someone is not doing well.
I also understand (all too well) how difficult it can be to be the recipient of survivor stories and what it’s like to be unable to respond at times.
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Chocking in porn is something feminists critical of the porn industry have been raising for at least a decade. What happens when you eroticise #MVAW en masse? (and then tell everyone it’s not MVAW) This. A must read. #EndVAW #pornharms theguardian.com/society/2019/j…
And, of course, there is a female pornographer saying the real problem is that choking isn’t generally shown in an appropriate BDSM context. Which is just more gaslighting. We have to be able to name men’s violence against women if we ever hope to address it, let alone end it.
See also @DrLauraTarzia’s important chapter on BDSM and violence against women in ‘Freedom Fallacy: The limits of liberal feminism.’ booktopia.com.au/freedom-fallac…
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A thread on what it’s like to be a female academic conducting critical research into the sex industry - or a journey through my last month at work. #MVAW #VAW #EndVAWG #EndDemand #highered #academia
Invited to speak at a UN consultation relating to gender, business and human rights. Despite discussions of the Modern Slavery Act and trafficking, no-one really wanted to talk about trafficking for sexual exploitation. #humantrafficking #modernslavery
But we do, as a wonderful colleague has worked hard to have panel specifically on aspects of this. At the last minute, the line-up is changed to include someone speaking on behalf of a sex industry lobby group.
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Something else I try to do every year on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is to tweet parts of Dworkin's "I Want a 24 Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape." Read it in full here: rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/learn/resource… #MVAW #EndVAW #VAW #VAWG #16Days
Dworkin, addressing male allies: "We don't have forever. Some of us don't have another week or another day to take time for you to discuss whatever it is that will enable you to go out into those streets and do something." #MVAW #EndVAW #16Days
"We use statistics not to try to quantify the injuries, but to convince the world that those injuries even exist...But I hear about the rapes one by one by one by one by one, which is also how they happen. Those statistics are not abstract to me." #MVAW #EndVAW #16Days
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