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Unlike sex work, my “good” jobs didn’t threaten to overthrow traditional power structures. Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the r
by rainworld 3y ago
Unlike sex work, my “good” jobs didn’t threaten to overthrow traditional power structures. Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the reason so many people in power work to keep the commercial sex trade marginalized is because they’re threatened by it—by the idea that it’s the only field where women outearn men, that it’s an industry where women get to call the shots, and that women profit off something that men have been told they’re entitled to for free: sex and attention in equal parts.
Terminal delusion. Beyond parody.
- xcxcx 3y ago[flagged]
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoI sense pride in cynicism here - and a proud display of ability to generate an unkind take.
- xcxcx 3y agoNot sure if you'd like a reply styled as Diogenes or as Alexander the Great
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoNo sense in making it more complicated. Might as well stick with 8kunGPT.
- waithuh 3y agoThe people that "call the shots, outearn and get credit for other peoples work" want this polarization between men and women. While i dont think the approach in this article is no where near great, bluntly disagreeing is no better either. Maybe 'life' wouldnt be so 'selfish' if everyone realized that sometimes you need to support one another to get your own way.
- CPLX 3y agoCan you explain why the trade she describes is regulated the way it is that doesn’t involve traditions and superstitions around power and sex?
- avidiax 3y agoMonogamy as a norm is about stability. Without it, what would tend to happen is that many more men would have no wives and families. Which means they have relatively little to lose. Which could tend to make your society unstable, since these men have little reason not to flip alliances, revolt, defect, etc. Hence laws and consequences for adultery, prohibition of an open market for non-monogamous sex, etc. The traditions and superstitions are just the implementation of the idea.
- kanbara 3y agoi actually agree with this sentiment quite strongly. part of the reason gender identity and dysphoria, queerness, and fluid gender roles are so despised by conservatives and religious fellows, especially when it comes to masculinity, is that it threatens the dominant power structure of the last few thousand years. sex work, and women’s empowerment is especially looked down upon. what else is labour but selling your body, yet somehow a woman is a slut to be shamed, and simultaneously the object of sexual desire. men need these latent structured in place to remain a) powerful and b) keep their sense of worth and identity. why else is being gay or “throwing like a girl” insults every western boy heard in the 90s?
- xcxcx 3y agoThe "dominant power structure" of the last few N centuries broadly consisted of nations of European origin enslaving and trading others in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, plenty of which under the rule of people such as Queen Victoria. It had more to do with military differential than with gender, but now they must change the rhetoric with these discussions because wide availability of historical facts and global demographic trends do not benefit this "dominant power structure". The former slave drivers now want local women who read this trash to hate you for their own crimes so they can skip their bill
- whimsicalism 3y agoQuibbles aside, it seems undeniable that there has existed a power relationship between men and women that likely had much more impact on people’s day to day lives than the macro-scale power structures you are describing. Nevermind the fact that it is arguable that the gender dynamics were to some degree productive of the colonialism you are describing. I don’t really get the point of your comment except insofar as the standard HN “well actually” putdown of anything resembling feminist rhetoric.
- xcxcx 3y agoI see. I must have been mistaken then because I've always assumed the gap between a Dutch man and a Dutch woman was narrower than that between a Dutch man and a Bantu man
- jandrese 3y agoThe article even starts out with a description of how her job worked: controlled by the pimp at the front door. The women didn’t get a say.
- xcxcx 3y agoIf it makes you feel any better, most people worldwide don't get a say over what the United States really wants. Even the men.