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we’re really somehow supposed to believe that “sex work”, pornography, 30-step make up routines, hook up culture, bdsm, patriarchal religion, shaving every inch of our body, cosmetic procedures and surgery, looking like we haven’t aged a day above 18, etc. is all supposed to be “empowering” for us? be for fucking real.

can you imagine how ridiculous it’d be if i said that men should spend 3 figures each month on beauty “maintenance”, should be slapped and choked during sex, should have to cover their hair and bodies for “modesty”, aren’t allowed to look older than a high schooler….

yet these same standards are enforced onto every woman and girl. interesting.

Pushing misogynistic beauty standards. 59 thousand likes. Comments full of women sharing their stories of being so desperate to get rid of the hair that they cut themselves badly. And any woman who suggested telling them to keep it was met with hate and “orrrr we could give them a choice!”

The Comments I Don’t Believe Are Staged………… Yikes

men who don't want their girlfriends to wear revealing outfits: "I view women's clothing as an invitation, and my woman's clothing shouldn't invite men other than me. I should be in control of this so other men know she is already owned."

There's ample evidence that porn normalizes sexual violence, including everything jackalopiel listed and more. Men (and boys) casually, openly, make jokes about incest, choking women, and misogynistic/racist porn tropes about women of color.

It has resulted in men choking and hitting women without even considering that she may object to it. More women and teenage girls than ever are having to seek medical care due to injuries from things like choking and anal sex.

Numerous men have used "rough sex gone wrong" as a defense in murder and domestic abuse trials. Judges, juries, and responding police officers have been swayed by this.

Porn has increased the rate of juvenile rape and sexual harassment - i.e. little boys harassing, touching, and raping little girls and younger children of both sexes. It has also increased sexual harassment of teachers and adult female caregivers.

I'd wager that the omnipresence of porn online, especially the prevalence of cartoon and furry porn, which is easy for kids and teenagers to stumble into accidentally, has made grooming even easier for predators, both online and off.

That's before even discussing the exploitation of women in the industry, who are financially held hostage, become drug addicts to cope with the work, and are sometimes left with lifelong disabilities like incontinence and severe PTSD. Women who do exit the porn industry face unending sexual harassment. And that's just in the "regulated" American porn industry.

Impoverished/trafficked/prostituted women around the world are forced into porn and will never see any of the profits. I have zero doubt that the porn industry fuels rape tourism to places like Thailand.

Men post videos and pictures of their wives and girlfriends, who never consented to those things being shared, and may well not have even consented to them being taken in the first place. Men put hidden cameras in women's bathrooms, changing rooms, and rentals like Air BnBs and then post the videos online without women ever even knowing she was recorded.