"it's not ok for someone who hasn't experienced the stigma of selling your body to identify as a sex worker." They saw the title as 'earned' by experiencing the negatives, and were upset that someone was claiming the title without going through the associated hardships. 2/
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So why doesn't the same thing apply to women? I suspect people who are ok giving the "woman" title to people who haven't "earned" it (e.g., grew up with the difficulties of people treating you as female) are ones who haven't seen women actually significantly oppressed. 3/
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It seems likely then that less privileged people from cultures with stringent gender roles, who see more downsides from the struggles of growing up as women, are more likely to try to gatekeep the title of woman, and people from more equal cultures will care less. 4/4
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A tech guy in the sex work industry is no more a sex worker than a man who builds and sells pickaxes is a miner
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I think I disagree. He's potentially facing much harder criminal punishments due to poorly worded anti pimping laws l
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Is that ironic? People do gatekeep womaness, transphobia is basically that, gatekeeping gender. Also, women who aren't "feminine" suffer a lot of backlash, that seems like a kind of oppression to behave a certain way
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damn. womanness, gatekeeping, oppression, tech guy, sex work... that's a lot of controversy in one thread. bravo! fwiw, i don't think this cleanly generalizes, but small steps towards progress are still to be lauded.
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This argument is disturbingly similar to the argument of “racism doesn’t exist be because Jim Crow is gone and there are anti-discrimination laws!!” Just because you are colorblind doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist, and it doesn’t mean you don’t perpetuate it. Similar for sexism
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The sexism that you talk about having grown up in still exists - the sexism that exploited women who do sex work still exists - the sexism that causes catcalling and violence on the street still exists. Your worldview bubble doesn’t mean “women are no longer oppressed socially”
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as a man (feel free to shoot me down after that point alone) in a very sexist industry, yes. women are still oppressed. but the idea that you have to be discriminated against to be able to call yourself a sex worker is just strange i think? a sex worker is someone who sells (1)
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