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Aella
@Aella_Girl
It still surprises me when, in discussions about sex work, anti-sex-work feminists are extremely quick to dismiss my experiences for literally any reason under the sun. I'm too-online, I'm too-successful, I'm white, I 'choose' to do this - aaaanything to mean I'm not valid.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
It just feels... arrogant? Like, for someone who's never done sex work and likely has met few, if any sex workers, to go to someone who's been in the industry for a decade and confidently be like "Naw, you don't know what you're talking about"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
Like, I get it if it's like "Well you come from a certain segment of sex work, and the issues of sex work I have come from a very different culture/location." Okay cool, I can work with that. But it's never that. It's always a confident "you are one in a million with no idea"
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Michael Smith
@Morphenius
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@Aella_Girl
I've come to call this "That's my mother's arm." Scott Alexander talks about this, though he cites a case where the patient insists their arm is actually their daughter's. But the essence is "Left hemisphere knows better than reality, says left hem.":
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The Apologist and the Revolutionary - LessWrong
Rationalists complain that most people are too willing to make excuses for their positions, and too unwilling to abandon those positions for ones that better fit the evidence. And most people really…
Rodney Tickle
@RodneyTickle
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@Aella_Girl
Reminds me of the Borgen episode in Season 3 called “Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery” where progressives condescend to the token sex worker on a panel discussing a prostitution ban.