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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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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Is that... femsplaining?
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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.":https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZiQqsgGX6a42Sfpii/the-apologist-and-the-revolutionary …
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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.
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