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oh so you say sex is a service?

why are there not more hygiene regulations? mandatory gloves? mandatory condoms? obviously there have to be mandatory controls where the service is observed by an official.

what about mandatory std tests for sex buyers? should they not also be id‘d for followup questions? is pissing and shitting on another person legal if you pay for it? doesnt seem like a healthy work environment to me.

if it‘s a service, there need to be more regulations and rules to avoid health complications. how long is the client allowed to strangulate the prostitute? how hard is he allowed to hit her? how long is too long for penetration? how many clients per day are allowed before it becomes a health issue?

considering the prevalence of drug abuse and trauma, there should be mandatory therapy and regular drug tests. why are prostitutes allowed to work on drugs and drunk? that does not seem like a job like any other. what a weird service.

is the service to make the client come or to perform a certain sexual action? is the client allowed to sue if the prostitute interrupts the service because she is in pain? what demands are appropriate and which are not? there should be a catalogue.

how long should a blowjob be? is deepthroat a health hazard or labor like any other? what about anal? is lube mandatory?

what about kinks? are all kinks allowed? what about cumming on the prostitute? would that not constitute a health hazard? no other job that deals with bodily fluids has this lack of regulation and demand for it.

should it not be mandatory every prostitute gets a bodyguard considering the prevalence of violence and abuse? should sex buyers not id to avoid violence and prosecute offenders? should sex buyers not prove that they are not convicted sex offenders or domestic abusers? if it‘s a service, there should be worker protection right?

do you see how ridiculous it is to say sex is a service. prostitution can never be regulated. it has to vanish.

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there is no safe way to be choked. pls reblog

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Back when I had a Facebook account I once commented that I thought drag queens were misogynistic caricatures of women and this liberal pseudo-feminist came down on me very agressively like I was a piece of shit for thinking that and we ended up debating the pressure of femininity on women and I don't remember exactly how I snuck it in the conversation but I said I was a trans woman and her tone completely changed it was insane. She calmed down instantly, became super respectful, all of the sudden I was allowed to disagree and she understood where I was coming from, even though my arguments hadn't changed at all. All it took was pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. No more snarks, no more personal attacks, no more rudeness. My friends saw the conversation and were bewildered as well. I was only allowed a feminist opinion if I pretended it came from a man. I was only treated with empathy and respect when I pretended I was a man. Ridiculous.

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 YOUNG KENYAN WOMAN HOLDING A DIK-DIK, MOMBASA, 1909

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Why do people say “if the victim were a woman you wouldn’t be laughing”? People laugh at women. People laugh at a woman’s pain. People hate women.

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you know why it’s so critically important to celebrate women over the age of 40? 

because young women and girls need role models. need someone to aspire to become as they age. 

as it is, society basically tells girls and young women: aspire to be 18-22. do not aspire or imagine past that, for you are useless without youth and beauty. do not aspire to be wise, or strong, beautiful without youth, or valuable with lines and wrinkles. and THAT is scary. we put a cap on aspirations for girls, because we want them to think the ideal comes and goes by 20–when really, we’re at our best for many, many years beyond.

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turn the gender dial up to eleven tonight baby i want the cissies to look at me and wonder if /they're/ a boy or a girl

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being able to tell someones bio sex literally by the way they type is just so funny to me

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i think it's hilarious how terfs try to frame themselves as being supportive of the trans community when "trans exclusionary" is literally in their name

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Subway Sandwich Thighs: A Blight Upon Women's Legs in Comics

Please, No More Subway-Sandwich Thighs!

I want to talk about a comic art convention I see from time to time that really gets up my nose.  Now, when I say convention, I mean an accepted technique or practice in the field rather than a gathering of gloriously enthusiastic nerds in costume.  In this instance, I am talking about a particular drawing shortcut that is accepted as “solid” and “professional” in the industry that I find teeth-grindingly lazy and bizarre.  I call it “Subway Sandwich Thighs”. As illustrated below:

As you can see, the thigh and the calf are sandwiched together, mid-air, without anything pressing against the underside of the calf to make it that way. Legs do not work that way, not even in bendy women. We cannot bend our legs and make them do that in mid-air. For that to happen, we need to put our weight on our bent legs, kneeling on the ground. It is the weight of our bodies that pushes the two parts of the legs together. Usually, the legs splay to the side, so that they aren’t pushed together too hard. We often sit on the side of our butts after about three or four minutes, cause that shit is uncomfortable.

As an experiment, go in front of a mirror, and try to bend your leg as much as you can, pressing your heel to your buttock. Do not use your hands to press the foot and buttock together – just check how close you can get naturally. If you’re a guy, I really want you to try this.

Now, stand there and imagine flying for more than ten minutes in that position. It fucking hurts, doesn’t it? It’s tight, it’s unnatural. It’s the sort of thing a dancer does for two seconds before leaping away into another pose. It is not a natural position to take.

I half-jokingly wonder if artists employ it because it evokes the mental imagery of a woman splaying on top of a man during intercourse, straddling him. It can display the buttocks in a pleasing way, and it also makes much of the crotch. But it’s the most ridiculous bloody drawing convention outside of the Rubber Spine thing, and I’d be more than happy if it died a quiet death.

Here are some gymnasts, naturally flexible people, bending their legs in the middle of routines. Notice their aren’t squishing the two halves of their legs together:

Here are some women kneeling. Just for reference for later corrections:

And now, some corrections:

Okay, enough of me picking on JSC.  Here’s the nitty gritty of the matter, and a hat-tip to stylistic choices:

Thanks to tumblr’s downscaling, the red text is: Leg too long, No pelvis all butt, heel goes where? and Where leg go? as well as “This looks odd but my body is really like this”.

The anatomy I’ve done isn’t perfect, but I think I illustrate my point.

The Anatomy of a Fuck Up:

So what’s happening here? Why are people making this mistake over and over? The reason is twofold.

One: Mistaken anatomy. When these artists draw their stuff to arse-up, face-down, no-time-to-fart deadlines, they don’t have the leisure I do to stop and think about how a woman looks when doing these poses. So when they have to think about a woman flying mid-air, they think about a woman kneeling, rather than an actual woman with her leg in the air. They just transfer the kneeling leg position to the upright position, even though the human muscles, tendons and body mass DO NOT ALLOW for that to happen.  With kneeling positions, they just go ahead and trundle out the shortcuts they learnt earlier in the piece, without thought to how heels and butt-cracks work.

Two: It’s Not Important.

In most situations, accuracy of a woman’s anatomy is not important in a comic book or graphic novel. A female character must be alluring above all, so certain anatomically impossible conventions get the wave and are never fixed. Other people learn these “shortcuts” and that it’s okay to draw like that, and it keeps on happening. FOREVER.

I’m not saying don’t use sweeping lines for style.  I’m just saying let’s not have utterly ridiculous anatomy going on.  These women characters take up so little space already.  Draw them as the leg is supposed to look and suddenly they have legs and tendons and physical signs of strength.  I guess that isn’t sexy enough?

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there is something very sinister about changing the definition of lesbian for the purpose of “being inclusive” because that argument operates on the assumption that lesbianism and lesbians exist to include. it was never about inclusion. lesbianism is exclusive by nature and if u have a problem with that then you’re just voring the rape culture boot at this point because newsflash: you are not entitled to lesbians, their bodies, or their emotions

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when you spill some light radfem aligned opinions in a conversation and your friends agree with you

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The right: hey we’re gonna take all women’s rights away <3

The left: there is no such thing as a “woman”...

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“I have a praise kink” “I have a body worship kink” men are starving women of basic love and affection to the point where women are starting to believe that to even desire such things from their boyfriends is strange and quirky, an occasional novelty treat only awarded to her on the condition that he gets to fuck

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