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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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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One concrete example that is prevalent among abolitionists and feminists in general is the consistent use of passive language to describe women/prostitutes to trick the audience into thinking of them as hapless and lacking in agency.
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