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that’s like asking someone who does hair to give you a perm, even though you don’t offer perms.
“Give me a perm. I want a perm. You’re a hair dresser. You have to do perms!”
“I don’t do perms and will not do one for you. I specialize in braiding and coloring.”
“Come on, you’re a hair dresser, what if I paid you $50 extra?”
UGH FUCKING PEOPLE. Being a sex worker doesn’t mean anything more to me than being a model, a dancer, or a massage therapist. They all share their bodies, but they just don’t involve sex in their work.
" -Applemilks response to my poster Sex Worker: Still not asking for it and some stupid responses i got basically containing “But you’re a sex worker so you’re asking for it” comments.
Applemilks kickin’ arse.
Sex Worker: Still not asking for it by dyke-recovery
I’m a feminist and a sex worker and i am so very, very sick of the “is it rape or theft if you fuck a hooker?” or the i use to get “You work in a strip club you shouldn’t get pissed off when someone tries to touch you, you’re the one working there”. Sorry but this is a service, not the selling of ones’ body or body parts. We own us, we decide how much we do, NOT the client or patron. We have the same rights as every other woman; to feel safe not only in our personal lives but in our work lives. It is not okay to do more than what is agreed to when paying for a service from a sex worker. If you are told no, you are told NO.
If a banker gets robbed did he deserve it because he is a banker? No.
If a soldier is shot during war, did he deserve to be shot purely for being a soldier? No.
Does a psychologist deserve to be verbally attacked because they’re paid to listen to other people’s thoughts? No.
So does a sex worker deserve to have their services abused purely because they are working in the sex industry? No.
Sex Worker: Still not asking for it by dyke-recovery
I’m a feminist and a sex worker and i am so very, very sick of the “is it rape or theft if you fuck a hooker?” or the i use to get “You work in a strip club you shouldn’t get pissed off when someone tries to touch you, you’re the one working there”. Sorry but this is a service, not the selling of ones’ body or body parts. We own us, we decide how much we do, NOT the client or patron. We have the same rights as every other woman; to feel safe not only in our personal lives but in our work lives. It is not okay to do more than what is agreed to when paying for a service from a sex worker. If you are told no, you are told NO.
If a banker gets robbed did he deserve it because he is a banker? No.
If a soldier is shot during war, did he deserve to be shot purely for being a soldier? No.
Does a psychologist deserve to be verbally attacked because they’re paid to listen to other people’s thoughts? No.
So does a sex worker deserve to have their services abused purely because they are working in the sex industry? No.
Feminist Brodie
This took me about 6 hours to finish! I’m ver proud of myself, close up coming up in a second.
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Beat Produced By Epistra!
Lyrics;
When I was a little kid
I had this role model
By my side every day
Love at full throttle
In her arms all the time
till I learned to waddle
Then I’d have her chasin’ me
round like a space shuttle. Haha
How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country
Last month, a New Jersey middle school banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to prom. Administrators claimed that the dresses were “distracting” — though they refused to specify exactly how or why. Parents reacted strongly to the rule; some supported the dress code while others deemed it “slut-shaming.” On Friday, the school compromised by allowing girls to wear single-strap or see-through-strap dresses.
This is no isolated incident in the United States. Across the country, young girls are being told what not to wear because it might be a “distraction” for boys, or because adults decide it makes them look “inappropriate.” At its core, every incident has a common thread: Putting the onus on young women to prevent from being ogled or objectified, instead of teaching those responsible to learn to respect a woman’s body. Here are five other recent examples:
1. A middle school in California banned tight pants. At the beginning of last month, a middle school in Northern California began telling girls to avoid wearing pants that are “too tight” because it “distracts the boys.” At a mandatory assembly for just the female students, the middle school girls were told that they’re no longer allowed to wear leggings or yoga pants. “We didn’t think it was fair how we have all these restrictions on our clothing while boys didn’t have to sit through [the assembly] at all,” one student told local press. Some parents also complained, leading the school’s assistant principal to record a voicemail explaining the new policy. “The guiding principle in all dress codes is that the manner in which students dress does not become a distraction in the learning environment,” the message said.
2. A high school principal in Minnesota emailed parents to ask them to cover up their daughters. A principal in Minnetonka, MN recently wrote an email telling parents to stop letting their daughters wear leggings or yoga pants to school. He says the tight-fitting pants are fine with longer shirts but, when worn with a shorter top, a girl’s “backside” can be “too closely defined.” The big risk of having a defined backside, he thinks, is that it can “be highly distracting for other students.”
3. Two girls in Ohio were turned away from their prom for being “improperly dressed.” Laneisha Williams and Nyasia Mitchell were barred from prom this spring for wearing dresses that administrators considered “too revealing.” The girls say that they didn’t believe they were violating a dress code that said dresses couldn’t be too short or show too much cleavage. But one administrator told local news that the high school girls were only allowed to wear dresses that had “no curvature of their breasts showing.”
4. A kindergarten student in Georgia was forced to change her “short” skirt because it was a “distraction to other students.” It’s hard to imagine that a kindergartener’s outfit could be “a distraction to other students,” but a mother in Georgia told locals news there that her daughter had been outfitted in someone else’s pants — without parental permission — after the principal deemed the skirt the young girl was wearing too short.” The girl had apparently wore the skirt, and accompanying leggings, just one week before without incident.
5. Forty high school girls were sent home from a winter dance in California after “degrading” clothing inspections “bordering on sexual harassment.” A school board member’s daughter was among the 40 girls turned away from Capistrano Valley High’s February dance for wearing dresses that either exposed their midriffs or were cut too low. Before the dance, girls were apparently required to flap their arms up and down and turn around for male administrators’ inspection. The school issues image guidelines for appropriate dress on its website — though the images were nearly all of women, and the only male image depicted proper attire. One girl alleges that the principal told her, “Not all dresses look good on certain body shapes.” A grandmother of one of the girls who was turned away from the dance also said that a teacher remarked about her granddaughter, “What mother would allow her daughter to wear a dress like that?” Apparently the school did receive some praise, though, from the parents of two male students.
When most Americans think about “rape culture,” they may think about the Steubenville boys’ defense arguing that an unconscious girl consented to her sexual assault because she “didn’t say no,” the school administrators who choose to protect their star athletes over those boys’ rape victims, or the bullying that led multiple victims of sexual assault to take their own lives. While those incidences of victim-blaming are certainly symptoms of a deeply-rooted rape culture in this country, they’re not the only examples of this dynamic at play. Rape culture is also evident in the attitudes that lead school administrators to treat young girls’ bodies as inherently “distracting” to the boys who simply can’t control themselves. That approach to gender roles simply encourages our youth to assume that sexual crimes must have something to do with women’s “suggestive” clothes or behavior, rather than teaching them that every individual is responsible for respecting others’ bodily autonomy.
(Source: ejacutastic)
SIGNAL BOOST: EMERGENCY SLUTWALK OC FUNDRAISING
Hey everyone!
So this is a final, last-chance call to action for fundraising for our 2013 OC Slutwalk (California).
For those of you who do not already know, we were forced to move venues very last minute after learning that our previous venue (who was renting to us for free) was bigoted towards the transgender community. With that being said, we gladly changed plans in order to accomodate all of our lovely invitees and ensure everyones safety and comfort.
Unfortunately, that has made this past month a blur of chaos and panic as we struggled to raise the 1,500 DOLLARS necessary to rent out our new venue.
We are a highschool-based club, and we tried our best under the given circumstances to raise the funds. We had a benefit show to raise money tonight and we failed to make the rest of the money we needed.
Our meeting with the owners of the venue is tomorrow, and without the money we need, this event will not happen.
We are so passionate about the cause and have gone to so much struggle and effort to make this happen. It would be absolutely devastating to see it fail now.
So we are coming to you, friends and strangers alike. We ask you to donate anything you can. Every dollar counts.~ PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, REBLOG AND SHARE. OUR EVENT COORDINATOR HAS ALREADY DONATED 300 DOLLARS OF HER OWN MONEY AND COUNTLESS HOURS OF HARD WORK. THIS BURDEN IS RIDING ON HER BACK. PLEASE HELP US MAKE THIS HAPPEN! <3 ~
Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry
So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts…
Johnny Rotten interview on The Project 9.4.2013 showing himself as a sexist, rude prick.
(Source: dyke-recovery)
Johnny Rotten just showed himself to be a horrible sexist prick on the 7pm Project pre recorded interview. Hosts called him out on it on live air after having to end the interview short because of it all.
Waiting for video to come online….
(Source: dyke-recovery)
Just got my apology from L for blaming me for being sexually harassed at work.
15-year-old rape survivor has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public!
The girl’s stepfather is accused of raping her for years and murdering the baby she bore. Now the court says she must be flogged for “sex outside marriage”! President Waheed of the Maldives is already feeling global pressure on this, and we can force him to save this girl and change the law to spare other victims this cruel fate. This is how we can end the War on Women – by standing up every time an outrage like this happens.
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