All men are trash

The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) is a UK-based union for sex workers, and became a part of GMB, another general workers union and Britain’s third largest union, in 2002 after a vote to become an affiliate. Like @feministclassicist mentioned before me in the thread, Douglas Fox is one of the many donors to the IUSW, and is also a part of Amnesty International, which I’ll address shortly. Fox owns the largest escort service in north-eastern England, and has dedicated a lot of time, money, and resources to lobby for the legalization of pimping, brothel-owning, and sexbuying.

In 2010, Douglas Fox published a post on the official IUSW website, wherein he routinely refers to women who are prostitutes as “whores,” claims that Julie Bindel and other anti-coercive sex industry feminists are not “true feminists”, claims prostitution does “not institutionalise the sexual objectification of women”, and states “the whore challenges social oppression of both men and women by refusing to conform to narrow oppressive role prescriptions.”

These statements are diametrically opposed to the lives and vocalized experiences/desires of the overwhelming majority of so-called “sex workers”, who want to leave these industries and find other sources of labor, but often don’t have the resources to do so. [2] [3]

In 2008, Douglas Fox proposed a motion for blanket decriminalisation of the sex trade at the Amnesty International (AI) Annual General Meeting, a proposal that became international AI policy seven years later.

In October of 2014, Alejandra Gil, the Vice President of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), was arrested for running a massive sex trafficking ring, using APROASE (a proclaimed sex-worker led sex work Union, for whom she was a co-chair member) as a front for her illegal activities. In March of 2015 she was charged. Despite that, the very NSWP article I linked paints Gil out to be a victim, and dismisses her guilt.

“Turn off the blue light” is a primarily European campaign, whose mission is “to raise awareness on the violence, crimes and discrimination against sex workers, a marginalized female group and mobilize public opinion and stakeholders in order to tackle these phenomena” Despite this self-proclaimed mission, the campaign is backed and funded by characters such as Peter McCormick, a convicted pimp who rakes in millions of Euros from his online prostitution service annually. Additionally, his son, who was convicted of running 6 brothels is another advocate for the campaign. TJ Carrol is yet another of these traffickers and pimps who supported the campaign. Carrol ran the largest trafficking/prostitution ring in Ireland, and utilized African gangs to traffick women and sell them into sexual slavery, where oftentimes they were horribly abused and unable to escape. Carrol and his associates used voodoo rituals to terrify African women into staying in the industry, and he also groomed his daughter into the business. Tony Linnane is yet another convicted pimp who backed the campaign. He was also connected to an incident wherein a woman was “threatened with being burned alive after gasoline was thrown on her.” Had enough yet? Mihai Selaru is a brother owner and pimp who plead guilty to beating the prostitutes forced to work for him, and threatened to starve a woman if she did not bring in more business.

Claudia Brizuela, a former leader of Asociacion de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina (Association of Women Prostitutes of Argentina) (AMMAR) and a founder of the Latin American-Caribbean Female Sex Workers Network (LA-CFSWN), was arrested and charged with sex trafficking. The LA-CFSWN was represented by none other than Gil Alejandra.

Julie Bindel, through her fantastic and diligent research, discovered that the #notyourrescueproject hashtag and campaign, which claimed to be a “sex-worker-led” campaign was actually created and sustained by burner accounts of Dr. John Davies by women he had pimped and trafficked. Primarily, he posed as a disenfranchised woman from the Indian sub-continent named “Molli Desi.” All of the pictures of “Molli” were actually pictures of a woman he had trafficked from Bangladesh. Davies was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Migration Studies Department of Sussex University, where he routinely hid behind his respectability as a doctor in order to promote trafficking denialism. Davies was also involved in an adoption scheme called the King Solomon Foundation, which operated out of Romania, and where he sold the children of prostituted women for up to $20,000.

a girl/woman who desperately wants male approval at the expense of other women

into:

a girl/woman who doesn't wear makeup/shave/wax/get botox/get cosmetic surgery and speaks to other women about how it's harmful

Genderist: hey, sex =/=gender!!!

Radfem: yes.... thats why we define womanhood by sex.... not gender.

Genderist: but theres more than one way to be a woman!

Radfem: yes....... thats why we define womanhood as a sex-based experience.... bc sex has no bearing on a persons capabilities or personality.

Genderist: well gender is infinate & deeply personal. How one woman feels abt womanhood differs from another woman!

Radfem: yes.............. all women are individuals, but they all have 1 experience in common that is biological, & objectively neutral: that is being of the female sex. We think there should be a word for half the human population that shares this diverse yet unifying material experience. Thats word (in english) is "woman".

Genderist: ok but..... not every afab wants to be referred to as a woman??

Radfem: thats their choice, but an aversion to being referred to as a woman doesnt make "woman" any less of a female exclusive experience 💀.

Genderist: ..... sex=/=gender!!!!!

https://www.bustle.com/p/women-who-defied-gender-roles-were-once-imprisoned-in-asylums-55320

Genderist: hey, sex =/=gender!!!

Radfem: yes.... thats why we define womanhood by sex.... not gender.

Genderist: but theres more than one way to be a woman!

Radfem: yes....... thats why we define womanhood as a sex-based experience.... bc sex has no bearing on a persons capabilities or personality.

Genderist: well gender is infinate & deeply personal. How one woman feels abt womanhood differs from another woman!

Radfem: yes.............. all women are individuals, but they all have 1 experience in common that is biological, & objectively neutral: that is being of the female sex. We think there should be a word for half the human population that shares this diverse yet unifying material experience. Thats word (in english) is "woman".

Genderist: ok but..... not every afab wants to be referred to as a woman??

Radfem: thats their choice, but an aversion to being referred to as a woman doesnt make "woman" any less of a female exclusive experience 💀.

Genderist: ..... sex=/=gender!!!!!

There can be no other logical, rational basis for women’s oppression; unless you think men were just being “mean” or something.  No, it was for a very real, profit-centered reason.  Men without families and heirs could not build empires (or even working farms) and without this centralized, religiously-sanctioned consolidation of the family, the state could not have evolved.  The state then effectively empowered men to be women’s keepers until very very recently in human history.  

THIS is the origin of women’s oppression.  

So yes, women’s oppression is because of vaginas.  Also: uteri, ovaries, ovum and menstrual cycles.  That is just a fact.  This is what got us consigned to the lower class, and our vulnerability during pregnancy and childbirth is historically what kept us weak and dependent on men.  And this is how patriarchy evolved.  

To write “vaginas” (or other female body-parts necessary for baby-making) out of the history of patriarchy and the evolution of the state, is flatly incorrect.  

It is also anti-feminist, since this account effectively erases the one thing women were allowed to do, the one exception to our limitations:   birthing and raising children.  Anything women dared to do, had to be somehow connected to that.  So, the first women artists and writers were women who painted their children’s portraits; sang their kids songs or made up stories and poems for them; knitted/crocheted/sewed their clothes, created pottery for the family to eat on, etc.  Women’s creativity was harshly limited to domesticity like this, and yet, we found ways to express ourselves regardless.  It is a story of SURVIVAL.  To explain to our daughters (as Virginia Woolf did) why there is no female Shakespeare or Chaucer, is to go back to….. VAGINA.  We were only allowed to have babies and failing that, teach or take care of some other woman’s babies.  Period.  

Because yes, that is the historical reason we were oppressed.  BODIES.  VAGINAS.

I do not want to oppress trans women, but I do not want to erase the history of the SOURCE of women’s oppression.   In your comments and in the comments of certain other Tumblr trans women, I see a continuous attempt to do that.  

Why?  

It is deliberately anti-feminist and seeks to erase women’s history.

Like… real feminists and LGB activists fought tooth and nail to get these privileged, western (and often white) children easy access to birth control pills, condoms, abortions, divorce, custody, maternity healthcare, gay marriage, single/gay couple adoption and economical independence, plus legal bans for other bodily autonomy violations such as FGM, rape, sex trafficking, pedophilia, arranged marriages and child marriages. All those because they were linked to women’s bodies and reproductive capabilities.

And now TRAs and libfems have enjoyed these privileges long enough to start stupidly believing that misogyny exists because it just, for no apparent reason, targets certain disembodied internet identities and zodiac personality types.