#women against pornography

[femalethink]

Pornography is regularly used in ways that have nothing to do with sexual explicitness. Rather, pornography is commonly understood as a form of propaganda, a representational style linked with defamation and desensitization, if not destruction. Patricia J. Williams, who thinks legally, critically, and gracefully about race, sex, and injustice, calls pornography a "habit of thinking," and one that informs all manner of abusive and exploitative attitudes and relationships. Pornography, as I am using the term, is just that, a worldview, a way of thinking and acting that sexualizes and genders domination and submission, from the bedroom to the war room, making domination masculine (even when a woman plays that role) and submission feminine (even when a man plays that role), and making both the essence of sex. By wedding sexuality to inequality, pornography conditions women and men to have a substantial investment in maintaining the oppressive status quo—again, from interpersonal relationships to international politics.

Pornography kills off, and then substitutes itself for, the erotic—the life force, the earthy and ethereal force of growth, fruitfulness, exuberance, ecstasy, connectedness, and integrity. Pornography severs eroticism from intimacy and empathy and bonds it to voyeurism and objectification (of the self and of another). It incarnates pleasure in acts of hatred. It would have all of us believe, even those of us getting the "fuzzy end of the lollypop" (Sugar/Marilyn Monroe's lament in Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder, 1959), that without a certain measure of power and powerlessness, danger, fear, pain, possession, shame, distance, and violence there wouldn't be any "sex" at all. Of course, the simultaneously pornographic, monotonous, and erotophobic culture tends to make that true. Variously damaged, alienated, and desensitized, pornography can become what we need in order to feel at all.

Some applaud pornography because it allows access to sexual imagery and language and easily offends offensive religious morality. Yet pornography is no real alternative to systemic sex-negative morality; rather it is an intrinsic part of it. Pornography and mainstream morality both stem from and continually reinforce a worldview that first makes a complex of body/low/sex/dirty/deviant/female/devil and then severs these from mind/high/spirit/pure/normal/male/god. For both, sex itself is the core taboo. Moralism systematically upholds the taboo and pornography systematically violates it. In the complex that evolves from this absurdity, taboo violation itself becomes erotically charged. Evil becomes seductive and the good mostly boring. Without patriarchal moralism's misogyny, homophobia, demand for sexual ignorance, and sin-sex-shame equation, pornography as we know it would not exist. And, together, the two work to maintain the sex and gender status quo.

—Jane Caputi, "Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture."

#jane caputi #feminism #radical feminism #radblr #radfem #women against pornography #anti-porn #feminist film theory

[20th-century-scrapbook]

The original WAP: the feminist group Women Against Pornography giving a tour of Times Square’s sex shops, 1979.Credit...Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times

#1979 #NYC #new york city #Times Square #WAP #Women Against Pornography

[certifiedcatgirl]

Andre Dworkin; Pornography: Men Possesing Women. 1981

#radblr #radical feminist safe #women against pornography #pornography is misogyny #abolitionist #radical feminists do interact

[transgenderbasketballplayer]

William F Buckley EPIC FAIL! Forgets Inar Bergman name! ("That swedish guy" 😂😂😂😂)

#william f buckley #andrea dworking #firing line #firing line with william f buckley #feminism #women against pornography #epic fail #news fail #funny news #political debate

[vispare]

– Andrea Dworkin, “Pornography, Men Possessing Women” (1981)

#radblr #violence against women #radical feminist safe #sex based oppression #andrea dworkin #female gaze #i hate men #anti prostitution #dworkin #anti pornography #antiporn

[vampiremiffy]

me having a "debate" with a dude in my ig dm's (because i reposted on instagram stories a twitter screenshoot about how you wouldn't trust a person who consumes CASM/child abuse sexual material so why should women trust a man who consumes violent porn) about kink and porn, he just said "i bet you consume fast fashion", i dont and even if i did how is that remotablely comparable? leftist men love to talk about class and capitalism and shit but the moment WE, AS WOMEN, talk about THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN, its not true, or its "not as bad as [redacted]"

sick and tired of men who always will find excuses as to not take responsability over women's oppresion

#pornbrainrot #radfem #anti pornography #antikink #radfems do touch #feminism #radblr #sexism #violence against women #male violen

[coochiequeens]

Finland’s Center for Legal Protection of Health Care also stated that Penttilä should be classified as an extreme danger to others, and the Appellate Court intervened and extended his prison term by one additional year.“ The original sentence was only 9 and a half years and that was the THIRD woman he strangled to death.

A Finnish serial killer who targeted young girls and women has been categorized as a “female” criminal by Wikipedia, prompting criticism on social media. Michael Maria Penttilä, 57, has been described by national media as the “only Finn to meet the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) definition of a serial killer,” having sexually abused and strangled multiple female victims to death, including children. Penttilä was born Jukka Torsten Lindholm, but is also known as Michael Pentholm.

Penttilä has a lengthy criminal record, which was recently highlighted in response to the revelation that he is classified as a “female” by Wikipedia. Many women expressed their outrage using the hashtag “notourcrimes,” which indicates opposition to male violence being recorded in statistics as having been committed by a woman.

Even as an adolescent, Penttilä committed sexually motivated and violent crimes. In 1981, at the age of 16, he abducted a teen girl, locked her in a basement, and beat her. Penttilä choked the girl with scarves and threatened to rape her, but she was able to flee. As punishment for the sadistic offense and a series of petty thefts, Penttilä was held at the Kerava Youth Facility in 1984 for one year.

Penttilä’s first known murder victim was of his own mother, Laina Lahja Orvokki Lindholm, whom he strangled on August 26, 1985, just after his release from the youth detention center. However, the crime was initially considered accidental by authorities, and the verdict in Penttilä’s case was ultimately decided to be wrongful death.

The next year, Penttilä met two 12 year-old girls and convinced them to accompany him to his apartment by promising to give them money to buy alcohol. He then locked one of the victims in the bathroom before using a belt to fatally strangle the other girl. Penttilä proceeded to rape the surviving girl, who was eventually able to escape after neighbors overheard her screams for help and contacted law enforcement.

It was only upon his arrest for the rape and murder of the young girls that the truth about Laina Lindholm’s death was revealed. During interrogations, Penttilä described to police how he had waited for his mother to fall asleep before donning her blue leather gloves and one of her scarves and choking her to death. He told authorities he killed his mother because she had begun dating another man since divorcing his father, and because he blamed her for not attempting to secure an early release for him from the youth facility.

In March of 1987, the Oulu District Court ruled that Penttilä was guilty of the murders of his mother and the child, and sentenced him to 9 years and seven months’ imprisonment. Despite this, the Rovaniemi Appellate Court intervened and held that Laina Lindholm’s death was not a murder, but instead a lesser crime of negligent homicide, and reduced his sentence to seven years.

Disturbingly, Penttilä confessed that he visited his mother’s grave after the killing.

Just one year after Penttilä was granted parole in May of 1992, he again choked a woman to death in his apartment in Kempele. The victim was a 42 year-old woman identified in press as Arja, and Penttilä admitted to causing her death, but claimed the murder was accidental and a result of engaging in the sadomasochistic sexual practice of erotic asphyxiation. 

Months later and while in prison, Penttilä told law enforcement his chilling motive behind the slaying. He said that he had confessed to having a “sexual abnormality” to Arja. Before her death, he told Arja that he was only capable of sadomasochistic sex, which included bondage, whipping and strangulation.

The Oulu District Court sentenced Penttilä to 9 and a half years, and a psychiatric evaluation was conducted. The examination concluded that Lindholm was sane and aware of his actions, and was therefore guilty. Finnish media reported that “[Penttilä’s] sexual inclination towards S/M sex and desire for strangulation did not show up in the examination because he focused on being as normal as possible.”

Finland’s Center for Legal Protection of Health Care also stated that Penttilä should be classified as an extreme danger to others, and the Appellate Court intervened and extended his prison term by one additional year.

In 2000, while incarcerated in Hämeenlinna Central Prison which houses both male and female inmates in separate wards, Penttilä began to wear make-up and dress in women’s clothes. According to psychiatric reports, Penttilä had a preoccupation with a hyper-masculine and violent male ideal, despite his fetishistic crossdressing tendencies. 

However, the prison’s director soon forbade him from wearing make-up and dresses, citing concerns about security. Penttilä then filed a formal complaint to Parliament’s ombudsman and attempted to argue that he was being discriminated against because female inmates were permitted to wear “men’s clothes.”

While in Hämeenlinna, Penttilä was granted permission to marry a woman named Hannele Pentholm, who was convicted of killing her husband and serving a life sentence. The two were married a short time, only two years, and after their divorce Penttilä adopted the name Michael Maria Penttilä and began claiming to be a lesbianwoman.

After he was released on parole in November 2008, Penttilä again attacked three more women on separate occasions. In May of 2009, he attempted to strangle a healthcare worker who he had called to his home to perform chiropractic services. The woman was eventually able to escape after calming Penttilä down and convincing him to release her.

He continued his violent pattern twice more: first strangling a female housecleaner he had hired to tidy his apartment, and the second just three weeks afterwards.

On June 11 of 2010, the Oulu District Court sentenced Penttilä to six years for three aggravated assaults and attempted aggravated assault, as well as aggravated rape and deprivation of liberty. The next year, the Rovaniemi Appellate Court once again interfered with the ruling and reduced Penttilä’s sentence to just four years and five months. The final verdict was upheld in October of 2012.

Penttilä was released in December of 2016, and just two years later, he murdered a prostituted woman by strangling her with stockings in his Helsinki apartment. Additionally, he had been found to have planned to murder a 17 year-old girl in 2017.

He is now serving a life sentence for the brutal slaying. 

During deliberations to determine whether Penttilä should be charged with homicide or the lesser crime of manslaughter, the court heard how he had spent hours of each day viewing pornography depicting asphyxiationleading up to the murders he had committed.

Psychologist Jan-Henry Stenberg told the Helsinki Court of Appeal that Penttilä’s pornography consumption illustrated the premeditated nature of his crime and highlighted the tendency for pornography use to escalate towards more extreme content. It was revealed that Penttilä had mimicked the actions of one of the men in a pornographic video he had watched.

Despite repeatedly targeting women and girls for sexually motivated violence, Penttilä is now listed as a “female serial killer” on Wikipedia, where editors have argued amongst themselves over this classification in the site’s open-access backend.

The page was initially created in 2018 under Penttilä’s birth name, Jukka Lindholm. 

Few changes were made until last month when, on April 5, a trans activist Wiki editor known as Maddy from Celeste updated the serial killer’s name to Michael Maria Penttilä and cited “deadnaming” as the reason.

Editor Maddy from Celeste, a pseudonym which is a nod to a video game character and its developer, is credited with having created the page “Transgender history in Finland,” and identifies as queer, trans, and non-binary.

“A serial murderer has zero rights – stop with the pathetic gender crap, HE is not a she,” reads one comment on the article’s edit page.

Other comments can be seen in the edit history and depict a back-and-forth exchange over “misgendering”, with one anonymous editor stating, “This person was born a male. Humans cannot change sex.”

In July of 2019, the category labeled “transgender serial killers” was deleted by Wikipedia editors. However, a category does exist for “female serial killers,” and Penttilä is one of two entries in the section regarding Finnish criminals.

Penttilä’s sadistic killing spree resembles the criminal behavior of American serial killer Harvey Marcelin. Marcelin, who identifies as transgender and uses the name Marceline Harvey, murdered three women and dismembered two of his victims’ bodies. Marcelin similarly targeted women trafficked in the sex industry, and is currently being held in the women’s ward at Rikers Island in New York. 

Like with Penttilä’s entry, a dispute between various Wikipedia contributors broke out over Harvey’s pronounsin 2022.

By Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

#Finland #wikipedia #Michael Maria Penttilä Is Jukka Torsten Lindholm a man #NotOurCrimes #He was sent Kerava Youth Facility for only A YEAR for abutting beating and choking a teen girl #Rest In Peace Laina Lahja Orvokki Lindholm #Another TIM with a history of violence against women and his own mother #Rest In Peace 12 year old girl murdered by this freak #Oulu District Court #How is choking you mother to death negligent homicide and not murder? #Another man claiming a woman being choked to death was a sex act gone wrong #Rest In Peace Arja #Transbian #he had spent hours of each day viewing pornography depicting asphyxiation

[malfunctioningmeatsuit]

be a leftist and stop watching porn.

If you say you are a leftist and don't have fight against the porn industry, you aren't a fucking leftist.

If you equate pointing out disgusting things that happen in pornography to being a prude, you aren't a fucking leftist.

If you dismiss the countless instances of maltreatment of those involved in the porn industry, you aren't a fucking leftist.

If you look over the exploitation of marginalized groups by porn companies, you aren't a fucking leftist.

If you can't accept that porn companies have made MILLIONS of dollars off abuse, you aren't a fucking leftist.

If you dismiss victims of abuse because SOME people like making porn of themselves, you aren't a fucking leftist.

The porn industry makes bank off the abuse and fetishization of countless marginalized communities.

Spread awareness and education and call out "leftists" who still support porn while claiming to be pro worker.

Enjoy erotic art and literature from independent artists, have consensual sex, or use your imagination.

Call out the hypocrisy of so-called allies of women, people of color, gay people, workers, etc. watching porn.

Educate your friends and family, leftist or not, about the harm their porn consumption causes and help them find alternatives.

If you're truly leftist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-rape culture, pro-worker, etc. stop watching porn.

-

If you are suffering from a porn addiction and need support, feel free to talk to me as I've been there myself. It is not your fault.

#anti pornography #leftist #feminism #radfem #support sex workers #anti capitalist #protect women #stop abuse #lgbtq #lgbt #leftist feminism #leftism #socialism #radical feminism #anti slavery #human trafficking #labor exploitation #worker rights #anarchism #end violence against women #anti racism #exploitation #fetishization #liberation #end the sex trade

[mozagg]

The 16 rules of misogyny. I thought y'all should know about them, because the first step to solve a problem is naming it 💪🏽✌🏽

"If you’re a woman who exists in this world, you’ve probably recognized patterns of male behavior that are used to silence, belittle, and control women. Women have been finding and naming these behaviors for years — as second-wave feminists knew, naming and recognizing is an important step in consciousness-raising. This is why men don’t want us to be able to do it.

As feminism is being corrupted by male interests and attempting to reframe male sexual access and denial of our experiences as “inclusive,” one woman has come up with a tool to help women recognize the misogyny around them. Rose, a 73-year-old second-wave feminist who goes by the username “TheBewilderness” online, has written, with the help of her friends, the “Rules of Misogyny.”

Originally only nine rules, the list has expanded to name an increasing number of male-patterns over time. The rules have taken on a life of their own, and women are expanding upon the list and creating memes and graphics based on their own experiences.

Learning these rules, and applying them when you encounter male behavior in the wild, can help every woman avoid patriarchal gaslighting. These rules are reprinted here (with permission) to help maintain a record."

#radfem #radblr #peak trans #trans cult #transwomen are men #rad fem #radfem friendly #anti prostitution #trans violence #tra nonsense #anti sex work #anti sex industry #antimasculism #anti pornography #anti beauty #anti beauty culture #anti beauty industry #anti makeup #antiporn #male violence against women #male violence #male socialization #male privilege #male entitlement #misogyny #sexism #survivors #the 16 rules of misogyny #male's gaslighting

[msclaritea]

Today’s feminists just to want to strip women of their rights

MICHAEL DEACON

COLUMNIST & ASSISTANT EDITOR

17 January 2024 • 4:34pm

The "Free the nipple" campaign was supported at this 2018 Women's March in New York

"I’m sure no sane woman needs to be told this. They’ll know it all too well from their own experience. But just in case, here’s an essential rule for life.

Never trust a man who tells you he’s a feminist.

All right, so it’s theoretically possible that he’s being sincere. More likely, though, he’s saying it to preen and show off: verbally pinning a medal to his own chest. Or, even more likely, he’s using it as a kind of chat-up line.

“Hey, baby. Aren’t men dreadful? I’ve noticed, because I’m different. More sensitive. Better. Say, why don’t you come back to my place, so we can enjoy some intercourse. By which I, of course, mean sitting down to read the seminal feminist treatise of that title, written in 1987 by Andrea Dworkin.”

Still, there is one place where you’re unlikely to encounter men of this kind. Spain. Spanish men don’t pretend that they’re feminists – because, it seems, they’re openly hostile to feminism. According to a new survey by the national Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, published this week, almost half the men in Spain say that feminism “has gone too far”. And they aren’t alone. Because almost a third of Spanish women agree.

It’s a striking result. Here in Britain, however, I think the picture is slightly different. It’s not that feminism has gone too far. It’s that it’s lost the plot altogether. And for us men, at any rate, it’s become utterly impossible to understand what it wants.

It didn’t used to be this way. Twenty years ago, when I was starting out in journalism, I worked for a lads’ mag, called Zoo. And, without exception, feminists absolutely loathed it. They endlessly denounced it as a vile, tawdry rag that promoted the sexual objectification of women – and because of this, they wanted it banned. Or, if not banned, sold inside a brown paper bag, so that no one could see the scantily clad women on the cover.

Naturally enough, we at the lads’ mag didn’t support their proposal. But we at least understood where they were coming from. Of course they objected to a magazine full of semi-naked women, rude jokes and tips on “pulling birds”. They were feminists. By definition, they were bound to hate it. We always knew what feminists stood for, whether or not we agreed with them.

These days, though, we haven’t a clue what they’re on about. Because many of today’s young feminists no longer seem to be campaigning for women’s rights. They’re campaigning against them.

They’re opposed to female-only sports. They’re opposed to female-only prisons. They’re opposed to female-only public lavatories and changing rooms. And any woman who dares to disagree, and politely suggests that women should be allowed to retain their right to female-only spaces, is branded a hateful old transphobic bigot. Feminists used to argue that women are discriminated against on the basis of their biological sex. Now, however, they seem to be arguing that biological sex doesn’t matter at all, or even that it doesn’t exist.

Meanwhile, they actively support prostitution, tweeting “Sex work is work”, as if it were a perfectly acceptable or even admirable career choice. On top of that, they run campaigns such as “Free the nipple” – a demand for women to be given the right to post topless photos of themselves on Instagram. It’s extraordinary. For years, old-school feminists fought for Page 3 to be abolished. Next thing you know, today’s young feminists will be fighting to bring it back.

Come to think of it, perhaps this is the real reason why some men like to claim that they’re feminists. They’ve noticed that this new type of feminism suits them very well indeed."

See? I said just the other day that Feminists are Anti-Feminine. So, let's ask the hard questions, shall we? We know that most women who can afford to hang out, being Feminists are from privileged backgrounds, in the first place. And yes, historically, some Feminists were known for being into alternative lifestyles (think Mary Shelley's mother or the Sex Dom women who inspired Wonder Woman) but what has been happening to them, recently?

More Bait & Switch? That is MORE LGB women as Feminists?

A systematic takeover of that area by people loyal to those who WANT to destroy families?

Flat out Bought and Bossed? Ideologues?

I know one thing. The Women's March, a potential source for Good and for championing rights was taken over by the Silicon Valley-backed, Bernie Sanders, who filled it with openly antisemic assholes like Linda Sarsour. Never thing you know, the group was championing EVERYTHING except what was good for women. Bottom line, it feels like yet more infiltration from groups helping to destroy relationships between men and women, not helping.

#Today’s feminists just to want to strip women of their rights #They’re against female-only sports #prisons #public toilets... and any woman who dares to disagree is called a hateful old transphobic bigot #Bernie Sanders #Silicon Valley #Peter Thiel A Fascist Gay Billionaire Pushes Pornography And Prostitution #The Catholic Church Supports Peter Thiel

[shotmrmiller]

a little prologue before i eventually write the schmeat.

pornstar au!

f!reader

Simon retired from the adult entertainment industry at 38 years old, but he'd been in it for a decade and a half.

He left his mark, going down in history as one of the greatest of all time in pornography. Simon was a living legend, and his cock was equally legendary which even attracted the attention of famous personalities. In fact, he made sure they signed an airtight NDA just to have the privilege of having his phone number.

It eventually became dull, however, and decided it was time to call it quits. He'd had his fun and now explicitly works behind the scenes with the casting and directing.

Not for the lack of trying on his hires' part though. He cannot recall how many times he's had actors trying to entice him into bending them over the black leather couch or fuck them against the walls of their dressing rooms.

Simon had retired and meant it.

That was, until you.

A fresh face, a rookie in the business but he's completely mesmerized by the video he's watching featuring his protege, Johnny. The scene itself was nothing special, just a dad's best friend script, but you...something about you was extraordinary.

He felt his manhood stir as he watched your lips parting in a silent scream as a climax washed over you, causing your toes to curl and fingers to dig into Johnny's biceps as he split you open on top of a kitchen counter.

Your eyes clenched tightly in bliss; head thrown back in pleasure. You weren't faking it in the least, not that it was ever in question— there was a frothy, milky cream around the base of Johnny's cock, your body twitched with the aftershocks of it, and he's had more than a lifetime's worth of women and men underneath and on top of him to know what a real orgasm looked like.

You looked delectable. His mouth watered as he thought of getting a taste of you— he wanted to eat that pretty pussy of yours like it was to be his last meal, push his thick fingers into your slick hole and make you ride his hand until you hunched over and gushed arousal down his wrist and forearm.

Simon palmed himself roughly outside of his trousers and hissed when Johnny covered your mouth with his as he rubbed your slippery clit under the pad of his thumb until you broke away to let out a choked scream— another peak that Johnny takes as his.

He fucks you through it with a slow undulation of his hips, just like Simon taught him, and only when your limbs are loose, syrupy, does he finally relent and in a few thrusts, he's pulling out and covering your glistening slit with his spend.

Simon grips his phone so hard, it makes a cracking sound. He's had A-list celebrities with unrivaled beauty begging for him to see them again. He's had Aphrodite in his bed and Adonis on his knees.

And yet none compare to the sight of you, skin dewy with saliva and sweat, damp hair sticking to your forehead, and another man's cum dripping out of you.

He's enthralled.

Simon tosses his cell and briskly walks toward his kitchen island, where his laptop sits. In a matter of minutes, he's sent an email to the company you work for and told them to name their price, he'd pay anything to get you in his studio.

They readily agreed, of course. No one denies Simon anything.

Simon runs his tongue over his teeth in anticipation; he's gonna lift you to the very stars.

Ghost is about to make his long-awaited return and only for you.

#call of duty #simon ghost riley #simon ghost riley x reader #cod mw2 #cod mwii #simon riley x reader #cod #cod smut #johnny soap mactavish

[konigsblog]

cw: consensual-somnophilia. 18+

saw someone talk about this in my inbox, and it's been plaguing my mind since. :(

könig who summons succubus-reader due to his loneliness.

könig is in the middle of his forties, without a wife, or even a girlfriend. of course, he's been to prostitutes and has watched cam girls and pornography numerous times -- although, he craves something more, desires the ownership and possession of a girlfriend. instead of going out and meeting women, or putting himself onto dating apps, he takes a much more depraved route. he summons an incubus, going to sleep with the hopes he'll wake up to a demon jerking him off, or taking his slick, bulbous cock so well.

and it happens...

he's awoken to the pulsating and throbbing sensation of his hard cock, the warmth and wetness of your wet, gummy walls tightly wrapped around his meaty cock. he's shaking with anticipation and arousal, trembling and breathing laboriously, unable to catch his breath as you giggle softly, holding his wrists down. you look so soft as you grind down onto his lengthy, veiny shaft, your soft breasts bouncing as you get off to the large and thick feeling of his hung dick.

könig's hands are held down beside his head, feeling himself grind skywards into you, pleading for more through guttural growls, sticky balls pressed firmly against your tight rear, cumming so quickly as he'd missed the sensation so badly. ;(

waking up to his boxers sticky and soaked with his hot, sticky fluids, huffing and puffing as he fantasies about the moment, unsure whether he has a wet dream, or you really visited him that night. :(

#orla speaks #könig x reader #könig x you #könig x y/n #konig x reader #konig x you #konig x y/n #tw: somnophilia #konig smut #könig smut #könig modern warfare #könig mw2 #könig mwii

[inkskinned]

no, but really, we need to talk about the casual objectification that has become the fallback discourse of the internet: if you're pretty and dressed nicely, you're a slut. and if you're even vaguely outside of their body standard, you're fucking disgusting.

too-frequently, people position sex workers as being "the problem". they sneer you're addicted to pornography, you don't know what a real woman looks like. but real women are in pornography. the real bodies on display are not the issue here: the issue is that other people feel extremely confident when commenting on someone's physique.

2000's super-thin is slowly worming its way back into the public ideal. recently i saw someone get told to "go for a run", despite the fact she was on the thinner side of average. not that it would ever be appropriate to say that: but it's kind of like sticker shock when you see it. people think that is fat? holy shit. do they just have no idea about things?

but what are you going to do about it? that's the problem, right. because chances are - you're a normal person. we can say normalize carrying fat on your body, but we are not the billion-dollar diet industry. we are not the billion-dollar fashion industry. we are just, like. people. who are trying to make content on the internet, without being treated shittily.

as someone who has been on both sides of things: you are treated better when you are thin and pretty. this is statistically correct. i am not saying that you cannot be bullied for being thin; i'm saying there are objective institutional biases against certain bodytypes. there are videos of men and women who lost weight all saying: i now know for a fact exactly how much worse you're treated. in the comments, some asshole inevitably says something akin to you deserved to be dehumanized when you were fat.

which means that ... the easiest thing to do is be pretty and thin. it is the path of least resistance, because of course it is, because any time you post a picture of yourself without a thigh gap, someone immediately comments something like you need to try a diet.

the other half is also dehumanizing though, huh, just in a different way. when i put on makeup and nice clothes, i am told i slept my way to the top as a professional. do you know how many women in STEM have told me they purposefully dress to "unimpress" because they already struggle to be taken seriously and if they're ever considered pretty - it for some reason takes away from their authority.

so they make it seem like it's your fault. you, existing in a body - it's your fault! if you didn't want shitty comments, don't have a body. they position us against each other like chess pieces; vying for male attention we don't even need.

and i can be an authority on this unless you think i'm fat and unattractive. when i am pretty and thin, i'm an activist. when i am just a normal person who makes a good point: i am immediately dismissed. nobody fucking believes you if you're not seen as attractive. you literally lose value. you cease to exist.

but the whole time, it feels like - is anyone actually grounded the fuck in reality? the line of "pretty and thin" keeps shifting. nobody seems to understand what "a normal weight" even looks like, because it's not something that exists - you cannot tell a person's health by looking at their body. even if you think you could tell that, even if you're sure a person is dangerously overweight - people are not your dolls. they do not need to be dressed up or displayed properly to soothe your aesthetics. you aren't concerned for them, you're stealing their agency. you don't get to say if they're "allowed" to take pictures and post them on the internet - you don't get to tell them how to exist.

people hide behind "the obesity epidemic" without any actual qualifications. they crow things about "normalizing unhealthiness".

but it's bullshit. i have visible abs. there is a pair of parallel lines on my body, even when i'm relaxed; where my obliques meet my abdominal wall. i am proud of this because it means i'm strong, because i overcame an eating disorder only to be ripped as fuck. it is genetic and physical luck that i even get any definition, i'm pleased as punch.

but it does mean that my abdominal wall sticks out a little bit. the other day i posted a video of myself dancing, and, for a moment, my shirt slipped. you could see a little bit of my stomach. i was cartwheeling to the floor. moments before this, i'd had my foot over my head.

a guy slid into my DMs. a row of vomiting emojis prefaced: you should really lose some weight before you think about dancing.

i stared at it for a long time. there was a time when i would have been triggered by this, where it would have encouraged me to starve myself. i would have ignored the fact i'm flexible, agile, good at jumping: i would have lost the weight for a stranger's passing comment. i would have found myself and my body fucking disgusting.

and for what? to please what? because why? so that he can exist in this world without an unchallenged eyeball? what would my self-hatred even accomplish? usually i write paragraphs. obviously. on this particular occasion, in this body i've been at war with for ages: i just felt exhausted.

it shouldn't be even worth saying. it shouldn't be hard to explain. all of this emotional turmoil when he cannot even comprehend the most basic truth: i am not an object on display for him.

#spilled ink #writeblr #warm up #like if im getting fatshamed. babe......... wake up #is there fat on my body? yes :) #btw this behavior wouldn't be okay even if I WAS overweight!!! that is my point!!! #it is both that people have no idea what weight is supposed to look like #and even if they DID... they do not seem to understand that PEOPLE ARE NOT DOLLS #YOU DO NOT GET TO TELL THEM HOW TO EXIST #if you respond anything akin to ''but raquel there IS an obesity epidemic'' #you're blocked and reported. #go fucking DONATE TO A FOOD BANK THEN. volunteer in a food desert. start a free fitness program #GO GET A DEGREE AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICE IN NUTRITION IN UNDERPRIVILEDGED LOCATIONS #FIGURE OUT HOW TO LOWER FOOD COSTS. FIGURE OUT HOW TO NORMALIZE AND STANDARDIZE #ACCESS TO FARM-FRESH FOOD. PROVIDE ACTUAL FREE ACCESS TO OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES #FIGURE OUT HOW TO TEACH PEOPLE HEALTHY CHOICE MAKING WHILE ALSO LOWERING THE COST OF MEALS. #THE AVERAGE GROCERY BILL OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN HAS QUADRUPILED IN THE LAST YEAR. #SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!!!!!!!!! #you don't want to help these people!!!!! #you want to bully them but still feel like a good person! #you want to be justified in your hatred of an entire CLASS of people!!! #you don't give a fuck about how it makes them feel!!!! #you care ONLY about whether or not YOU get to VIRTUE SIGNAL that YOURE so thin and pretty!!!! #it is BECAUSE of people like you #and the fact you tolerate fatphobia - BECAUSE of that normalization. that men like the one who called me fat #feel like they can get away with it. #bc there's a line for you where you WOULD be okay with it. where if i WASNT thin you'd be okay with it. #which means the line can always be pushed in a certain direction. and it's always going to appeal to male aesthetics. #''well you didn't deserve it'' maybe fucking NOBODY does babe. maybe we should just all agree not to comment on ppls bodies!!

[communistkenobi]

Another issue that seems to fuel effemimania is our cultural tendency to sexualize femininity and femaleness in all its forms. While countless feminist writers and theorists have analyzed the ways in which the sexualization of femaleness and femininity permeates virtually every aspect of our culture and has a negative impact on most women's lives, they have typically ignored the way this tendency creates an environment in which "male femininity" is almost always considered in purely sexual terms. For example, most popular images and impressions of trans women revolve around sexuality: from "she-male" and "chicks with dicks" pornography to media portrayals of us as sexual deceivers, prostitutes, and sex workers. And of course, there are the recurring themes of trans women who transition in order either to gain the sexual attention of men or to fulfill some kind of bizarre sex fantasy (both of which appear regularly in the media, and also in Bailey and Blanchard's model of MTF transgenderism). In this context, it's easy to understand why Bailey and Blanchard were able to get away with proposing a homosexual/autogynephilic model for MTF spectrum trans people without ever being challenged by their professional peers to apply their theories to FTM spectrum trans people. To do so would require these predominantly straight- and male-identified gatekeepers to view masculinity and maleness in purely erotic terms--in other words, to reduce maleness to the status of mere sexual object (something that they would be loath to do in the unlikely event that this line of reasoning ever crossed their minds). This unwillingness to sexualize masculinity to the extent that femininity is sexualized explains why the gatekeepers endlessly dwelled on every perceived nuance and variation that occurred in the sexual practices and fantasies of the MTF spectrum population while simultaneously adamantly claiming that there was no such thing as female transvestism, no erotic component to FTM crossdressing, and no such thing as a gay-identified trans man.

— Whipping Girl, pp 134-135 (2nd Ed)

Serano also talks about how transmascs were routinely viewed as more “psychologically stable” compared to transfems by medical professionals because it was seen as “basically rational” for a woman to want to be a man, but hysterical, pathological, and disturbing for a man to want to be a woman. Furthermore, trans women were routinely at the whims of the sexual desires of the professionals who oversaw their medical transition, with many doctors outright stating in medical documentation that they used their own levels of sexual attraction to their transfem patients as the basis for whether they would refer them for surgery or not. And on the flip side, if trans women were too feminine, too attractive to the cishet male doctors, they would be accused of faking or exaggerating for attention, while trans men were praised for their performance of masculinity and escaped the sexual eye of the overwhelmingly straight doctors - because it would be gay to do so, and of course these doctors aren’t gay! How dare you even suggest that!

The conclusion ultimately is that there is no good way to be a woman - trans women are stuck in a double bind where they must perform an incredibly rigid standard of femininity in order to be given access to hormones, and are then punished if they “go overboard” or their performance of femininity doesn’t suite the sexual tastes of the doctors who gatekeep their ability to transition. This is again where transmisogyny has a massive amount of explanatory power as a concept, and why trans men do not face this same double-bind - our masculinity can be denied as fraudulent, and often is, but the act of pursuing masculinity in the first place is seen as a genuine, taken-for-granted common sense pursuit, a “mercy” that is not afforded to our transfem siblings.

This is not to pit transmascs against transfems, but to acknowledge the basic reality that our masculinity provides us with some bargaining power in medical and psychiatric contexts, not because trans men don’t face discrimination or transphobia, but because we have the ability to be rewarded by patriarchy for our identity as men - which is itself a violently misogynistic privilege. This fact should enrage you, not towards trans women for pointing this very obvious and basic fact out to you, but towards the people and institutions conducting this violence in broad daylight

#even old new york was once new amsterdam #whipping girl #transmisogyny tw

[ukrfeminism]

The creation of sexually explicit "deepfake" images is to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales under a new law, the government says.

Under the legislation, anyone making explicit images of an adult without their consent will face a criminal record and unlimited fine.

It will apply regardless of whether the creator of an image intended to share it, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said.

And if the image is then shared more widely, they could face jail.

A deepfake is an image or video that has been digitally altered with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace the face of one person with the face of another.

Recent years have seen the growing use of the technology to add the faces of celebrities or public figures - most often women - into pornographic films.

Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman, who discovered her own image used as part of a deepfake video, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was "incredibly invasive".

Ms Newman found she was a victim as part of a Channel 4 investigation into deepfakes.

"It was violating... it was kind of me and not me," she said, explaining the video displayed her face but not her hair.

Ms Newman said finding perpetrators is hard, adding: "This is a worldwide problem, so we can legislate in this jurisdiction, it might have no impact on whoever created my video or the millions of other videos that are out there."

She said the person who created the video is yet to be found.

Under the Online Safety Act, which was passed last year, the sharing of deepfakes was made illegal.

The new law will make it an offence for someone to create a sexually explicit deepfake - even if they have no intention to share it but "purely want to cause alarm, humiliation, or distress to the victim", the MoJ said.

Clare McGlynn, a law professor at Durham University who specialises in legal regulation of pornography and online abuse, told the Today programme the legislation has some limitations.

She said it "will only criminalise where you can prove a person created the image with the intention to cause distress", and this could create loopholes in the law.

It will apply to images of adults, because the law already covers this behaviour where the image is of a child, the MoJ said.

It will be introduced as an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.

Minister for Victims and Safeguarding Laura Farris said the new law would send a "crystal clear message that making this material is immoral, often misogynistic, and a crime".

"The creation of deepfake sexual images is despicable and completely unacceptable irrespective of whether the image is shared," she said.

"It is another example of ways in which certain people seek to degrade and dehumanise others - especially women.

"And it has the capacity to cause catastrophic consequences if the material is shared more widely. This Government will not tolerate it."

Cally Jane Beech, a former Love Island contestant who earlier this year was the victim of deepfake images, said the law was a "huge step in further strengthening of the laws around deepfakes to better protect women".

"What I endured went beyond embarrassment or inconvenience," she said.

"Too many women continue to have their privacy, dignity, and identity compromised by malicious individuals in this way and it has to stop. People who do this need to be held accountable."

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper described the creation of the images as a "gross violation" of a person's autonomy and privacy and said it "must not be tolerated".

"Technology is increasingly being manipulated to manufacture misogynistic content and is emboldening perpetrators of Violence Against Women and Girls," she said.

"That's why it is vital for the government to get ahead of these fast-changing threats and not to be outpaced by them.

"It's essential that the police and prosecutors are equipped with the training and tools required to rigorously enforce these laws in order to stop perpetrators from acting with impunity."

#articles #mvawg #law

[zeldasnotes]

Whats in the chart of an escort? 💵

18+

I will especially take a look at these asteroids:

Aphrodite(1388) - Patron of prostitues, goddess of sex, love and beauty.

Geisha(1047) - Geisha, a member of a professional class of women in Japan whose traditional occupation is to entertain men, in modern times, particularly at businessmen’s parties in restaurants or teahouses.

BLM Lilith(h13) - Rebelling against the traditional expectation and roles for women.

Annie Sprinkle

Annie M. Sprinkle is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former prostitute and advocate for sex work.

Aphrodite conjunct Ascendant: She identifies with the same things as Aphrodite. We usually live out the myth of the asteroids we have on the Sun or Ascendant.

BLM Lilith in the 2nd house: Lilith in the 2nd house in common in people who might not want a ”regular job”. Its also common in people who use their body and sex for financial gain. Lilith is also at 10°

Midheaven at 8°: Midheaven in a Scorpio degree often indivates working or being known for something taboo. Shes famous for 8th house matters.

Uranus in the 10th house: Shows changing the industry or society in some way. Shes a an activist for sex workers rights. She worked for the production of feminist based xxx movie content, include understanding of female genitalia and xxx movies based on women's desires, Sprinkle has contributed to feminist pornography and the larger social movement of feminism.

Geisha & Lust in the 6th house: Lust is basically her job & her job very similar as the job of a Geisha. Geisha is in a Sag degree and she worked with sex education and teaching how to please.

Eros in the 2nd house: Makes money on erotica.

Ulla

Famous French prostitute based in Lyon who, in 1975, led the "Prostitute French Women" movement.

Eros conjunct Ascendant: This makes for a very sexual person who most times enjoys expressing their sexuality.

Midheaven at 11°: Midheaven art an Uranus degree = unconventional job and public image.

Mercury in the 8th house: She is a spokesperson(mercury) for prostitues. Very knowledgeable in the field of 8th house themes.

Asteroid Lilith in the 6th house: She rebels through her work and daily routine.

Pluto in the 5th house: She entertains (5th house) with sex (Pluto). Pluto is also the 8th house ruler.

6th house ruler in the 8th house: Working with 8th house themes.

Ashley Dupre

(no birthtime)

Ashley Dupre was a high payed call girl who is now married to former governor of New York.

Lust conjunct Moon: Lust conjunct Moon is a sign of a very lustful person.

Eros at 8°: Attracted a powerful and rich man because of this job. (He was her client at first)

Lilith conjunct Sun: She was not what the ”typical” woman is expected to be but still got a high position in America because of her marriage to the governor. Lilith conjunct Sun is typical in the charts of women who demand the same respect as men.

Geisha conjunct North Node: A lifetheme of entertaining men.

Mars at 2°: Making money(2°) of sex and the body(mars)

Nina Arsenault

(no birthtime)

Nina Arsenault Canadian performance artist, freelance writer, and former prostitute who only perform oral sex.

Mars at 10°: Her body and pleasure (mars) is her business(10°)

Geisha conjunct North Node: A lifetheme of entertaining men.

Eros in Capricorn: Making erotica her business. Eros is also conjunct MC which strengthens this.

Lust conjunct Pluto: Her lustful nature gave her power and money. She made incredible amounts of money.

ASTEROIDS MENTIONED: 1388, h13, h58, 1181, , 16, 433, 1047, 4386

#astro notes #astrology #astro observations #astronotes #lilith #birth chart readings