Thread by @EllyArrow

Don't understand how Western academics studying global south women & kids exploited by "sex tourists" aren't embarrassed when they argue that these groups are "constructed as vulnerable". Socioeconomic power, white and male privilege are real everywhere - except here apparently🤡

Reading an article by a Candian "feminist" researcher interviewing women in Brazil, inc. favela communities, concluding that they're going through a "moral panic" and that really white men aren't doing any particular harm when they purchase access to women from these communities.

This Canadian "feminist" researcher is crying that women in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil who organized massed anti-rape protests were against "sex tourism" & had slogans like "We scream that we are women and not World Cup souvenirs, that we are women and not commodities." The gall

Brazilian feminists supported by socialist groups and unions don't understand what they're on about with wanting "sex tourists" out of their communities. Bunch of dummies need to be educated by a woman coming down from Canada who knows the men from her country mean no harm ♥️

I don't usually call for this, but I might suggest that Western "feminist" researchers do their ethnographic research by prostituting themselves for a few months in e.g. a favela and see if they still think their countrymen are sweet innocent fun companions.

Here's what my countrymen have to say about why they pay for #prostitution - in Germany and abroad (because having a massive local sex industry does not stop men from going to e.g. Thailand, but normalizes and encourages the behaviour):

https://twitter.com/EllyArrow/status/1329025049572102144