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Jan 20, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read Read on X
U.S. primaries are coming up soon which begs the question who can make the most meaningful change for disenfranchised Americans and women in particular. I'd like to endorse one candidate that has actual meaningful policy proposal for women: #AndrewYang
#AndrewYang's wife #EvelynYang is a survivor of sexual assault and has recently begun to speak out publically leading to 15 women coming forward against the same perpetrator. In a Yang administration violence against women could finally be a priority:
#AndrewYang is also the first and only candidate to endorse the #NordicModel meaning criminalizing anyone who makes a financial or sexual profit off of a person in #prostitution, and decriminalizing that person themselves. He did some actual thinking on the issue to come to this.
He keeps endorsing policies that are not broadly popular with mainstream male dominated culture: Taking a critical look at pornography for example. Stating publically that women in particular need financial support and make wiser decisions with money. #AndrewYang #AndrewYang2020
#AndrewYang has support from across the political spectrum. He has concrete proposals that speak to the majority of Americans - especially on fighting poverty and loss of jobs. He is continually talking about people with disabilities as well and how the state keeps failing them.
#AndrewYang is a political outsider who has not held office but he has spent years looking at data and talking to experts on the actual population's issues and developed policy proposals from there. Find out more yourself and see what might speak to you: yang2020.com

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Feb 2
This horrific feeling that a lot of people are having in regard to the #Epstein files is what I (and many other feminists) had many years ago when we realised that there's virtually no protection for rape & trafficking victims of all ages & that perpetrators just get away with it
I'm not trying to say that we are better or smarter than anyone else but that these types of crime (rape, trafficking, forced abortion, child abuse, torture, femicide) are incredibly pervasive & once you realize that you can't unsee it. It exists in all domination-based societies
I realised that girls and women (and some vulnerable boys and men) from a lot of the same backgrounds and with life stories like Epstein's victims were ending up in my country Germany's legal (and also flourishing illegal) prostitution industry and I could not unsee it.
Read 11 tweets
Jan 31
Let's not forget that #BillGates is one of the world's largest funders of pro #prostitution organizations that push for legislation that makes it harder to investigate and prosecute sex trafficking. Similarly, Epstein (and Musk as we knew) promote(d) the #surrogacy industry.
Virginia Guiffre was only able to make her escape from Epstein after he and Maxwell began pressuring her to become their surrogate. Reproductive and sexual exploitation are tied at the back and both deliver children to anyone who has the money for it. youtube.com/live/IVx0sADS1…
A large portion of the international pro #prostitution lobby has pushed not just for the denial of the harm done to adults but children as well. They've promoted language like "child sex worker", talked about economic opportunity or that girls "love" pimps ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/mor…
Read 8 tweets
Jun 1, 2024
In Hamburg, there is a street lined with #brothels that women and children are not permitted to enter, it's called "Herbertstraße".

Did you know that the gate keeping everyone but sex buyers, pimps, and exploited women out was set up by the Nazis?

(The gate is usually closed.) Image
The gate at Herbertstraße was set up in 1933 under the Nazis to shield on-goings from view. Officially prostitution for a woman's own profit was illegal, especially in a street setting, but under state control, it was permitted and widely practiced.

(Herberstraße today). Image
A group around a local pastor want to create a monument right outside Herbertstraße to remember the women in prostitution under the Nazis who were stripped of their rights, shunned and murdered between 1933-1945. Nazis also systematically trafficked women into state-run brothels. Image
Read 17 tweets
Oct 10, 2023
The life of Joop Wilhelmus - an exemplary tale of many a "#sexualrevolution|ary's" extreme hatred of women and children...🧵 Image
Joop Wilhelmus is born in 1944, son of a Communist, sent at an early age to GDR socialist fraternization camps. Begins writing in leftwing papers at 14. Noticed for his braggadocio, claims of having first had sex at 12 years of age, and attracting "hot chicks" with his politics.
Jumping on the bandwagon of the sexual revolution in the 60s he soon becomes one of the Netherlands' most notorious pornographers, founding (among others) the adult porn magazine "Chick" in 1968. His fans are proud of the fact that he is hated by "the bourgeoisie and feminists".
Read 24 tweets
Oct 9, 2023
There's a new website educating about the largely forgotten and understudied history of Nazi military brothel networks during WWII by German feminist historian Anne S. Respondek. "The male right to sex" in full brutal force looks like this... 🧵wehrmachtsbordelle.de/2023/09/12/gla…
During their time in power the Nazi war machine established a brothel network stretching entire occupied territory. Brothels catered to (nearly) every sector of the male population incl. not just soldiers, SS, police and elites, but military allies, workers and even camp inmates.
The history is glossed over in large part because post-war Germany still maintained its hatred of prostituted/sexually exploited women while also wanting to justify its continuance of the prostitution system (openly in the West, covertly in the East).
Read 17 tweets
Jun 25, 2023
One of Germanys biggest news magazines, Der Spiegel, headlines:

"We will be ashamed"

Deploring 20 years of failed German #prostitution policy.

Here's the story of how the law let women down, the people (often survivors) ringing the alarm & the politicians admitting the mistake
The article opens with the story of "Lena" (20), the victim of a "loverboy" pimp, a trafficker who makes their victim think they're in a loving relationship - in Lena's case a martial arts world champion. Atypical about her story is that he got sentenced to 6 years and 3 months.
Lena's story is not a singular case, the article explains. There are countless women and some men & trans people trafficked to Germany annually. Most traffickers dont have a day in court nevermind the men literally paying to rape, the latter's actions are only criminal since 2017
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