normal woman with a normal amount of hobbies

it's been a while but i'm finally back into knitting! i've recently made this Skyrim themed cardigan based on the landscape of Tel Mithryn and its surrounding views. this one was a lot of fun to design and get everything lined up!

So the other two in my group are used to my antics by now. We’re all friends, so the pair of them decide that the one guy in our group gets to be the nurse. Now, my Juliet and I have been friends for a couple months by this point, so I decide to be a little more dramatic.

We put Juliet on a spinny chair, and pump it up as tall as it goes, and my baby, closeted lesbian ass crouches on the floor, ready to be as melodramatic as possible. Like, I’m about to do a rendition that makes William himself walk into the class and tell me to take it back a notch or twelve.

And then I look up.

And holy shit.

There she is, Juliet, haloed in the worst fluorescent light known to mortals across the globe. Light just streaming down around her, that weird off-green colour that it always is. And she’s the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. My little gay soul is barely holding on as the words barely leave my lips, breathlessly. “But soft… what light from yonder window breaks?”

And Juliet was the sun. Romeo was not exaggerating that line at all.

This is an objective truth, but being exploited by capitalism as a worker and being exploited by capitalism as a sex worker isn't the same thing for the exact reason getting mugged and getting raped isn't the same thing. Idk if you noticed but there's that extra lacquer of something.

Going by the (correct) framework that all labour under capitalism is coercive then all sex work is also coercive and what do we call coercive sex? Rape. And that's the detail this argument tends to neglect

And i mean this in the nicest way possible but I don't know how people don't see that, how you don't type that out or say it without realizing how wrong that sounds, how topsy-turvy and backwards that seems.

I actually don't know how this idea came to be in a lot of leftist spaces since if you think about it for more than 2 seconds it just falls apart, and frankly the notion of it is insulting.

It devalues the gravity of what rape is by insinuating it's on par with working long, sweaty, underpaid hours where your feet start to hurt, which is of course terrible and a failing on the part of your employer, but it's nowhere near being raped, and the worst part is that sex workers experience these things too, sex workers experience being underpaid and overworked with the added tragedy of being raped on shift.

The argument that sex work is just like any other form of labour exploitation is naive and under developed, seemingly something spewed out in the moment and then regurgitated time and time again by leftists who only listen to the voices of the most privileged of western sex workers experiences.