Society and the Unconscious Bias

Same with : “Se faire baiser”* = “To get fucked” the exact same also means “To be WRONGED”.

* NOTE : it’s rarely or never commonly used for men because it is PASSIVE (meaning a man cannot be/get fucked by a woman).

Then they try to back-track and say things like “Well you already speak perfect English so it’s fine” and I’m like “My grandma didn’t speak very good English when my grandparents settled in the UK from Finland, what are you trying to say?” 

And they’re like “Well I’m sure you’re grandparents had useful jobs and weren’t just sponging off the system.” like… nah, my grandma mended clothes and my grandad sold garden sheds, they weren’t exactly brain surgeons 

“But they…” just admit it, it’s not white immigrants that bother you, I doubt Americans go on marches protesting the Canadian undergrad students who overstay their visas or all the germans and scandinavians who just rocked up in the Midwest one day and decided to call it their own.

them: 

- https://www.skincancer.org/prevention/skin-cancer-and-skin-of-color

I’m not saying women are never shallow but we aren’t the ones demanding male actors live on chicken breast and spinach for months on end so they can be suitably muscular and veiny!! Meanwhile, whenever a female celebrity gains like 10 lbs, even if she was very thin to begin with, she’s immediately going to be universally yelled at for “letting herself go” and magazines and talking heads will speculate that she’s pregnant or depressed or whatever else they can use to slander her. 

he’s probably freaked out (rightfully so) but in the back of his mind he’s probably also thinking “worst comes to worst, I could probably fight her” until:

this happens and he’s like:

and immediately starts reevaluating every bender he’s ever met, thinking of every time Katara totally could’ve killed him, and is forever grateful that she has morals lol

bonus post war convo between Zuko and Azula:

So you don’t have to watch the video every time you need one of these hacks immediately:

1. If you feel nauseated, smell rubbing alcohol.

2. If you feel like throwing up, start humming.

3. If you have a runny nose, put your tongue to the roof of your mouth and press your thumb to your forehead for about 20 seconds.

4. If you have a headache, pinch the webbing between your fingers and rub it back and forth for about 1 minute.

5. If you’re lightheaded from standing up too quickly, clench your butt cheeks.

6. If your arm’s dead/has the pins and needles feeling, rock your head back and forth.

7. If you need to pee badly, think of sex to trick your brain and relieve the pressure.

8. If you have a migraine, stick your hands in ice water.

Okay so for the last couple of months I have read a lot of research on this topic. It came to my attention through a post on Tumblr and ever since then I have read many studies, articles, statistics and reports of victims on the porn industry. And it’s depressing. It really made me cry at night in bed multiple times because it just absolutely baffles me how people can be this cruel to one another and how no one is talking about this issue. It’s shocking and it hurts me as someone who cares deeply about human rights and other people. And I came to the conclusion that you should sign the following petition: http://chng.it/pMr5NXQVyR

It’s a petition to shut down Pornhub. Hopefully the whole company. Now you may be asking yourself:

What has this company done and why should it collapse?

Well, for one, the reasons that are listed underneath this petition.

It blatanly ignores while at the same time profiting off revenge porn; a crime that can lead to character assassination, harassment and trauma for the victim as well as seriously ruin their lives. It can even go as far as a person taking their own life. 

The GirlsDoPorn scandal

Racism

The sexual assault of a 14 year old girl ended up on their website and she begged them to take it down and they didn’t give a shit

They verified a 15 year old trafficking and rape victim

And of course they have no problem fetishizing rape, pedophilia, torture, racism, misogyny and abuse. 

Rose Kalemba was the 14 year old girl which I talked about. Whether the porn shown on this website is acted or not (which you can never know actually), rape and abuse are NOT a form of ‘sexual expression’ and should not be supported by the Terms of Use. And it is absolutely sick that people and porn companies just tolerate videos where the plot is straight up that someone gets raped as something that may “appeal to many people around the world”. Rather than just accepting this we need to do everything that is in our power to make sure we can create a future in which everyone can see how this is actually one of the most morbid, disgusting views to come out of this society and is unacceptable and unforgiveable. This is NOT okay:

It’s disgusting. It stands against basic morals, disregards human rights, tolerates crime and traumatizing experiences as a fantasy and lacks compassion and understanding for victims of sexual assault; rather it fetishizes those crimes. This is not only disrespectful for the victims but also can cause people to fetishize rape or have reduced empathy for rape victims (more to that at the bottom of the post). 

Before continuing of course I also know the debate that exists about the sex industry and the porn industry. Radical feminists agains liberal feminists, people saying porn and sex work should be banned, people saying it should be legalized and decriminalized etc. 

So I want to clarify that I’m neither

a radical feminist

a liberal feminist

a SWERF

religious

a communist

I’m a political science student who came across this topic by chance, read multiple sources on it and was absolutely horrified by what I learned from them. 

But honestly? In this post it doesn’t really matter where you stand in the debate on the sex industry. Or whether you’re a radical feminist or a liberal feminist or christian or muslim or neither of those things. It doesn’t take any particular political view or ideology or religion to realize that this is not okay. And whether or not you want porn to be banned or not:

We need

more education on the topic for both children and adults

to hold traffickers, rapists and abusers as well as the companies that profit off them accountable for their crimes

to emphasize and make sure that rape, teen porn, pedophilia, abuse and racism are not a category for sexual enjoyment

better health care for the people working in this industry as well as regular physical and mental health checks for them

to make it as easy as possible for them to leave the industry and seek help if they need to. 

to make sure people understand what is wrong with this.

And of course if Pornhub gets shut down, there will still be other sites where this happens. There will still be many companies profiting off rape and sexual exploitation. It is impossible to just ban it all. So you may be asking yourself, if this is the case then:

Why does it make sense if one company gets shut down? Why would it make a difference if I sign this thing?

If the company gets shut down the topic will get media attention. Probably even worldwide. This will raise awareness about the human rights violations being comitted in the porn industry. People who see this may think critically about the media they consume for the first time ever.

Pornhub is one of the most popular sites for pornography. The company getting shut down would have an extremely important symbolic value. It would show that society does not condone this kind of shit. It would show that we stand up for the basic morals we have been preaching for so long.

It could help some of the victims!

It can be a first step in working towards the things listed above. If the topic gets more attention it will be easier to educate people on it, to get them to listen to you, to organize real life demonstrations and to contribute to activism against the issues happening. 

The company receives consequences for the atrocities they profit from and that they condoned for long enough

What else can you do against human rights violations in the porn industry and fetishizing crimes?

The easiest thing: Don’t consume it. It doesn’t matter on which side of the debate you stand. It can’t go on like this. It’s the same reasoning that is behind not buying meat from shady mass production companies or not buying clothes from stores who let their products be produced by children. If you show them that you will consume the media they produce no matter what the conditions are and contribute to the industry the way it is now you’re slowing down change. 

Educate the people around you on it. Speak up when the topic is brought up. Share the research, the articles, make posts on social media.

Organize demonstrations if you can

There is an app called TraffickCam where you can upload photos of your hotel rooms so it is easier to identify places where sex trafficking and rape takes place!