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What gets me about footage from the trial is that sure, Amber Heard was suffering on an excruciating, personal level. But she had also already written, at length, about the realities of misogyny and this woman-hating world. So the footage of her distress and her agitation speak beyond what she knew was being done to her. She knew what this meant for women in general.

From Porter magazine in 2018 (prior to the WAPO essay):

Is it time to have the conversation that forcing and making lesbians like dick or otherwise labeled bigoted is apart of rape culture and just another way of hurting women

Missing the bus is inconvenient.

Losing your purse is inconvenient

✨ SWELF = Sex Worker Excluding Liberal Feminist ✨

aka the girlbossy libfem who platforms shiny, privileged onlyfans creators as “empowered” but instantly silences anyone who shares a story of coercion, poverty, grooming, migration, or trauma.

SWELFs love to say things like: 💬 “you’re just a minority voice.” 💬 “that’s not representative.” 💬 “you sound kinda SWERF-y for saying that.”

…while literally being the one doing the excluding women who are in the huge majority of sex workers in the statistic, that did it out of poverty, addiction issues, migrant issues or grooming.

...like that meme of a dude dressing up like a woman and reporting back that women are called the f-slur a lot.

Toni