Sex work - Words and abolitionism - Part 1 of 5
Linguistic influence and how #sexwork abolitionists seek to prevent people even thinking of sex workers as anything more than mindless victims.
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Manipulating thought by altering the language is hardly a new phenomenon. It's one of the core themes of 1984. The language we use to describe most political issues for example has been carefully crafted by PR people specifically to lead to a foregone conclusion.
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Quite. But the point of these posts is understanding the manipulation, how it works, and why it's necessary when used by abolitionists.
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Feminists are a particularly influential group that rely almost exclusively on language-manipulation to make their arguments (more palatable). Unsurprisingly, the most ardent anti-prostitution activists happen to be feminists.
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I'm not going to agree with any blanket attack on feminism. Feminism is (and should be) inherently
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That's a no true scotsman fallacy. The SWERFs are just as much feminists as the feminists who do support sex work. Feminist Sweden is one of the worst countries in western europe when it comes to sex work thanks to their ultra-woke prostitution laws.
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I don't really care if you call yourself a feminist or not, but it's silly to pretend that this species of language-manipulation doesn't have a feminist pedigree. The exact same tricks are used to delegitimise and dehumanise, say, conservative, pro-life and anti-feminist women.
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At the end of the day, any opposition to what the feminist wants is framed as anti-woman and anyone who condones it is framed as a brute or a Stockholm-syndrome suffering damsel who doesn't know any better.
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This guy is a great example of a broken clock: right on the money when it comes to SWERFs, but extend his analysis to feminists in general and it's "HOW DARE YOU SIR BLOCKED" Sad.
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