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April 11th, 2007
11:29 pm - from the files of WTF
I'm been bouncing this post around in my head today about the temptation to infantilize victims of oppression and the kind of bad shit that plays into, but man, I just didn't have a hook, other that the llama drama of a few days ago.
But then ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) trinityva links me to some of the most vile, dehumanizing shit I have ever seen in the world of internet opinions. Now, in all fairness, I'm likely to find worse shit on say, white power sites, but I don't go to those and those people are really unlikely to use words to describe their politics that I also use to describe mine.
Here's the one that really set my teeth on edge:
"Their so called consent is not solid. Let me see, paranoid schizofrenic women, bipolar disorder women, histerical personality disorder, postraumatic stress personality disorder from rape or chid abuse, 90% of them are heavy drug users, mentally retarded women, autistic women. Almost all well known US porn stars fall in one or more of those cathegories. Many are also in codependent relatioships, sometimes abusive. So much for consenting adults. "
Let's move on, for a sec, from how totally fucked up it is to imply that survivors of sexual assault are therefore, for the rest of their lives, unable to give meaningful consent. Let's even move on from the women who pose for Kink.com.
Let's talk about women in the sex industry who's exploitation and coercion is an indisputable fact. Let's talk about trafficked women and underage girls and what it does to truly oppressed, truly exploited women to use this kind of rhetoric.
My co-workers have met dozens of Nepalese women who were trafficked, either kidnapped or told some story, to Indian brothels. By the time my co-workers meet them they usually have HIV and have come home to their families to die. These were young girls, victimized by their families, by a patriarchal system that fetishizes virginity and most importantly by extreme poverty.
But their also survivors. My co-workers only meet these women on the worksites. That means that they doing hard physical labor, volunteering, to make a better future for the little girls in their hometowns. They aren't broken shells of people, waiting for well-meaning white folks to swoop in and destroy the sex industry. They, like many exploited women in the sex industry, and like so many oppressed people around the world, are fighters. They need allies from those of us who benefit from so much suffering.
I can't speak for these women's emotions but I can say that, from the people in my life who have been victims of sexual violence, who have been treated like something less than human by some shithead who thought that that was okay, I've learned that the best way to give a person whose been through such dehumanize trauma support is to give them respect.
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against my better judgment, i went to the source, and promptly found myself flaming the shit out of them, particularly the asshole who made that particular comment. i've had it.
you'll get omg censored is all
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/30991907/6799295) | | From: | amberlr |
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| Date: | April 12th, 2007 04:26 pm (UTC) |
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*applause*
That is all.
Right on, yes indeedy...
and oddly enough, comments made by me, Belle and Faith ALL made it onto that post...
oh, did it now? huh. no doubt already being used as further evidence of how hateful and patriarchal and yadda, mine anyway. i'll go back over eventually, i guess. not in the mood to get sucked back in right now. i shouldn't post at four in the morning as it is.
I think I was linked here via the Carnival on Fetch Me My Axe. I hope you don't mind me commenting on how much I liked this post. I haven't really examined my own attitudes about women who are trafficked into sex work around the world. I tend to just think of it in terms of "this is a tragedy that needs to stop", without thinking about the women in question much beyond that. Which is really not much better, I suppose.
Thank you for making me think about that.
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| Date: | April 6th, 2008 03:49 am (UTC) |
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