Liberty

Hopefully, people start realizing that having a specific, derogatory, word for gender critical women, while it's males that commit the vast majority of violence against trans identifying individuals is not a coincidence. They stop using it to shut down all productive conversations, and then we can finally retake feminism back.

Also, legalizing sex work would make it easier to protect women who have been trafficked and punish their traffickers

There was a statistic on radblr (don't recall who posted it) stating that a third of women inmates in the USA where jailed for prostitution. Don't know if it is true but you get the idea.

End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) has an informative publication on this issue called "Raped, Then Jailed: The Risks of Prosecution for Falsely Reporting Sexual Assault", which includes the case example of the 18-year old OP is referencing:

If you’re trying to talk about trafficked girls and your audience has someone in it who has been conditioned to believe the only morally upright and correct way to refer to any position in the sex trade is specifically as a “sex worker”, then they’re going to get up in arms about you referring to them as prostitutes or sex slaves, and you’re going to get derailed every time before you ever manage get to your point

That person is never going to hear about the child sex slaves, either because they interrupted the person trying to tell them about them to correct them on the terminology or because they were so steamed about it they stopped listening and labeled them a swerf, as if that actually means anything at all

The woman in the video explains that a lot of women's expectations was to only be doing it for a short while, until they get out of a bad situation, and then quit, being more financially stable and on their feet. She explains that even if you have only 12 subscribers, that is 12 m*n who are used to having continuous intimate access to you, and if you one day decide to stop, they are immediately going to get offended and upset. Because they've been paying for this, they'll feel entitled to keep having continuous access, and they'll find a way to make it happen.

She then goes on to say that if you want to make money at all, you'll have to show your face in the videos, and they'll be able to use AI tools to find your identity almost immediately. What happens next is they find your friends, family members, and your job site, and blackmail you; you either return to onlyfans, or they send the content to everyone you know. And if you say no, they will harass all your friends and family, and if you get any kind of job, this will get harassed too. Women then face the immense pressure of having not just themselves, but everyone in their life harassed to the point where they can't stand it anymore, and return to OnlyFans just to make it stop. They'll become isolated and have everyone in their life turned against them.

This effectively stops them for having any other kind of job or profession because it's impossible to stop the subscribers from finding out and sabotaging the entire thing. She explained a woman was put through this and forced to continue onlyfans, when she only had 12 subscribers. Two of them were blackmailing her. So thinking you can try it out and get out, you can't really, it's not just that the content might get out, but you're entire family and friend group and coworkers and job site might get involved.

The other meaningful fact she brings on is that you are unlikely to reach any success if you look like an adult women; it only works if you can pass as a child. I can't link the video because in the other half she berates women, and I don't want that content on my blog, but I found this story important, because it wouldn't cross my mind how big the danger is. I didn't know that if you get even one crazy subscriber, it's impossible to quit.

The other thing I saw women who previously had an OnlyFans account say, is how awful it was for their mental health, and the perception of their own bodies. They noted that even if it felt okay at the start, it keeps feeling worse and worse and they were deteriorating the entire time it was going on. It's impossible to not be affected. And the general, putting yourself in the harm's way, getting stalked, having to move often, having m*n break into your place, and delude themselves into thinking you want them and are specifically interested in them so any invasion in your life is welcome and warranted, is something women might not be aware they're exposing themselves to.

Even more if you are a radical feminist.

You should acknowledge that women have been oppressed and degraded throughout all history and you continuating that abuse and degradation, specially when you don't agree with what she thinks or what she does is doing the dirty work for the patriarchy.

You should try to understand her, try to have a dialogue if you can, try to change her point of view if you want¹. And if you don't you let her live her life and don't expose her to more insults. That's just plainly misogynistic.

The moment you attack a woman because she disagrees with you, you are eroding your own rights and giving men the tools to attack you, and don't be surprised when women do it to. Patriarchy has always used this strategy against us, putting ua against each other, we can see when they try to pit mothers against daughters, friends againts friends, strangers against strangers, the thing is that we don't focus in the bigger issue.

So please, try to not fall for this and respect all of our sisters.

Black women are 3-4 times more likely to die in childbirth, dying at the same rates as women in Mexico or Uzbekistan.[x] It’s not a coincidence why many black mothers are turning to doulas and midwivery [x][x] more than other races - provided they’re in a position to get it. This is backed up by the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and the National Center for Health Statistics - home birth and midwifery is providing better care and lower risks of maternal mortality.

We see how it impacts women's abilities to focus on academics and sports. But what about even our ability to politically engage and make political change? In both the virtual and real worlds, misogynist fascists find these outfits the best way to keep our minds off politics.

In the policy of the Argentine and Chilean military Juntas to keep leftist women political prisoners in nothing but skimpy underwear. It was not just a humiliation tactic and security precaution, although it was that. It was about exactly this- "The effect described above is explained by them as a result of constant body monitoring caused by self-objectification, which basically takes up a major chunk of our attentional resources and impairs our cognitive performance."

While women do have the freedom to wear what clothing we want. We have to ask why are there certain types of clothing, that military dictatorships think is the best weapon against women making revolution?

This very important Harvard paper by Dr. Barbara Sutton demonstrates how feminine beauty practices was literally used as torture against leftist women. As a way to control us so we couldn’t even think of politics-

In listening to women’s testimonies, I learned that feminine beauty products, including makeup, hair removal wax and nail polish, became available in at least some of the camps. Relatedly, survivor Isabel Fernández Blanco also spoke about a kind of “rehabilitation” directed to some detainees in El Olimpo: in one of the offices of this CDC, “women painted their nails, combed their hair [. . . .] I suppose that the compañeras who were in charge of taking us out and bringing us to the GT2 Office were in charge of rehabilitating us, right? But nobody ever talked about politics either, or . . . anything. As I tell you, it was mere . . . nail painting” (Memoria Abierta, Testimonio de Isabel Fernández Blanco, Buenos Aires, 2005). As many of the detainees were activists, the absence of political talk and the presence of beauty practices is especially significant. The activist body was apparently to be replaced, in the case of women, by a domesticated, conventionally beautiful, feminine body.