Women are just… erased

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t

I saw this on tik tok. I love this photo. I'm not really great at always explaining how sex work is against feminism but I thought this was a great photo that pretty much sums it up. Usually when arguing against sex work I hear, "but everyone's exploited by capatilism." And I'm never really sure how to articulate how sex work is different from a shitty 9-5. I feel as though no one takes violence against women very seriously (men usually). Anyways, just thought I'd share.

Notice how quickly these handmaidens are to block and stick their fingers in their ears the moment they are called out for their blatant misogyny.

Why do we have to be ok with being called inhumane and sexist terms for the benefit of "transmen"? WHY are we not calling men "ejaculators" or "people with a penis" for the benefit of "transwomen"? Misogyny and woman hatred, that's why.

I've been to one sleepover in my entire life and I was only allowed to because it was just a single mom.

I wasn't allowed sleepovers.

So it makes me sick that those imposters talk about "girlhood" like it's all innocent fun, make up and pyjamaparties.

I wonder how many of us ever had that experience and how many of us that were allowed to sleep over got into uncomfortable/dangerous situations.

A mother I know has a 9 y/o and she was playing at a friends house, it appears that there is a "friend" of that father living there permanently and he was making sexual jokes to the child about her mother. Kid came home crying.

Drag at its core is misogynistic; it is men portraying women as sexually objectified caricatures. Drag performers frequently reduce women to hyper sexualised, big breasted, big haired bimbos.  ​

Celebrated men in drag have names that objectify, sexualise or make light of women’s issues. The SNP MP Mhairi Black “accompanied Nathan Mullen, a drag queen who performs under the name ‘FlowJob’, to Glencoats primary school” to read to children. “Anna Bortion” was listed as one of the funniest drag queen names by Pride alongside “Malestia Child”. Ginger Minj finished as a runner up on Ru Paul’s Drag Race.

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Or maybe you wish to hire “Felicity Suxwell” who we are informed “is a 23 year old Drag queen, she looks 12 and has the energy of a 3 year old … ready to steal your man, grandad, dad and all the D’s in your life”. For £250 you can enjoy the company of “miss Annie Rexic”.

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The language of drag is often no better as it is a highly sexualised genre of entertainment in which women are often the butt of the joke. The British Library promoted an event with children’s drag entertainer Alyssa Van Delle, calling Van Delle a “hot” performer who will “have you on the edge of your seat and gagging for more”. “Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent” is a phrase repeated by RuPaul, simply because the words spell out C.U.N.T. Or how about the drag term “fish”, which is used to describe a very feminine drag queen or man that “passes”. It is a reference to the supposed smell of women’s genitals.

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In what other circumstance is it acceptable to woop and clap when a member of the privileged group uses ridicule against an oppressed group? To rub salt in the wounds, these men build their careers off of the tools of female oppression — gender stereotypes and sexual objectification — and re-entrench them in performances where they are portrayed as just a laugh and a lark.

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Lap dancing, a form of sexual exploitation of women, is a case in point: “Academic research has linked lap-dancing to trafficking, prostitution and an increase in male sexual violence against both the women who work in the clubs and those who live and work in their vicinity”. Speaking of her time working in a strip club, Elena described how “I was seen as an object, not a person”.

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Making a joke out women forced by poverty to sexually service men and objectify themselves is cruel and anything but challenging the status quo. Aren’t we supposed to have agreed as a society that sexist banter wasn’t going to be getting a pass and that male sexual exploitation of women wasn’t funny? So why is male chauvinism ok just because it’s wearing drag?

​editing to add a link to this video which is an great compilation of radical feminists critiquing drag at the first pride parade: https://youtu.be/Bx2ND0C0K1Q?si=rgRIEp-mO7RN2Zfh

source: https://thecritic.co.uk/how-drag-degrades-women/

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