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k in these people are protesting an anti child sex trafficking conference because of solidarity with sex workers now i understand that feminists who discuss sex work are always supposed to take into consideration the 12 or so college educated white women who have done it by choice and we are not supposed to analyze their choices because shaming and i understand that the liberal feminist positive thinking argument is we shouldn t even call child sex trafficking victims disempowered because that will make them feeeeel bad and work as a self fulfilling prophecy but even from that precariously liberal position you d think people would stop to consider these are children we are talking about and it s not ageist to point out that if you are trafficked into sex slavery as a child you are going to feel bad regardless of whether some feminists point out your disempowerment you are going to feel disempowered from being you know sold into slavery and raped every day and all the attending complications of that these people are protesting an anti child sex trafficking conference for fear of denying the trafficked children s agency among assorted sundry other reasons let that sink in for another moment yes really and some of them have been arguing about it amongst themselves and with radical feminists on tumblr for the past few days they ve been accusing radical feminists of being pro cop they ve been claiming radical feminists are organizing the protest they have been misreading the original poster and claiming it s all an emotional manipulation tactic akin to kony 2012 this is the state of modern nonradical feminism it s time to cull the movement anyone who supports or would protest in support of child sex trafficking can no longer consider themselves feminists it s as simple as that posted in uncategorized 9 comments cynicism as a survival tactic baby who hurt you posted on april 5 2012 by trees sometimes i think the biggest thing that puts people especially women off of feminism is it requires constant critical engagement with the world it requires that we unlearn that suspension of disbelief we are all taught since childhood and once someone critically engages with their world all the time once someone refuses to suspend their disbelief that someone is branded a cynic and women are not supposed to be cynical or in fact critically engaged with anything we are supposed to be eternally sparkly eyed and new our arms open to the world when we aren t it comes across as anger and bitterness and omg who hurt you this is by no means a new revelation for me and it won t come as a surprise to any other radicals either but i ve been thinking about it recently because i constantly think about everything for instance my roommate was recently telling me how great her new boy toy is and she knows he s so great because duh he works with kids and my first thought was so did jerry sandusky which of course i could not say aloud because she would have then replied we can t talk to you about anything you re such a cynic i don t think that s a bad thing though in fact i think cynicism can be good that it can keep people informed and keep people safe take this instance the boy toy was unsurprisingly a creep although not necessarily with kids i don t know for sure and i hope very hard that he is not but he did treat my roommate like she was a disposable masturbation device my roommate was totally blindsided but i d known from the moment i met him that he was an asshole maybe no more so than the typical sex entitled male supremacist dude but an asshole nonetheless because i am a cynic on the other hand with my new and improved high standards and super rigorous screening processes i have not personally dated a creep in over two years i have also been known for having terrible luck and a self destructive bent so if i can avoid creeps by screening everyone through a very fine filter there is promise for all women in that field of research the fact that i have dated only one person in those two years and she was also a woman could be passed off as irrelevant although it isn t women can do some devastating things to women who are their partners but in my experience the devastation is largely emotional and borne out of the pain someone feels when they have to watch someone they love do something to hurt herself i ve never been raped by a woman i ve never been beaten by a woman i ve never been stalked or threatened by a woman i ve just had to watch women i ve loved deal with the fallout of living in patriarchy those things physical violence vs emotional pain do not really compare in the long run no woman could ever do the staggeringly egregious things that men have done even though television would really like to convince us otherwise posted in uncategorized 3 comments prostitution for everyone feminism globalisation and the sex industry posted on february 9 2012 by trees an essay by d a clarke this is possibly one of the most important essays for any radical feminist to read what i ve been trying to approach in previous essays is that sex both the physical state of being and the physical act especially as defined by men power and class are all parts of the patriarchy and that all systems of power based classification social economical racial sexual are inherently hierarchical based on domination and submission and therefore incompatible with radical feminist life or theory capitalism is patriarchy all systems of power are questionable and should be questioned capitalistic hierarchy plays into patriarchy by creating further classes within women the haves who can be sold as brides and the have nots who can be sold as slaves we can only achieve true liberation for women by dismantling the power structures of capitalism as well this article is not an expressly anticapitalist document fear not those who sniff disdainfully at those dirty hippies but does an excellent job of spelling out the relationship between capitalism particularly global capitalism and the female sex class it basically draws a metaphorical diagram with big red arrows it should be required reading for anyone interested in radical feminist theory it is understood that the difference between bride and slave is often only rhetorical however at the same time to claim that there is no difference between say an upper middle class white woman who lives an unfulfilling life as unpaid housemaid and sex toy for some dude and a woman especially a woman of color born into poverty especially in what the west would euphemistically call a developing nation who sells herself as her only means of support would be patronizing and disingenuous this is not the oppression olympics this is reality one can have sympathy and empathy for both the unfulfilled house slave and the woman who is literally prostituted and one can thus work to change both realities at the same time thanks to sam at genderberg for hosting this incredible essay online posted in uncategorized 3 comments the politics of personal experience posted on february 5 2012 by trees when i write or speak or even think about something that has happened to me or something that i do or have done it is always in a wider political context sometimes i don t understand all of the political implications until much later but if i speak or write or think about it i do understand that it is connected to something bigger and representative of more than just me we are each individuals but we do not live in bubbles the things that happen to us the things we do are all part of a larger collective paradigm the more oppressions a woman has to deal with on a daily basis the more likely she is to realize this from an early age the moment of realization doesn t happen to everyone of course but oppressed people seem more likely to make these connections i am poor nonwhite female disabled homosexual etc and people who are poor nonwhite female disabled homosexual etc all seem to be treated in x ways more often than people who aren t earlier and on their own even if they don t name them as such or make a connection to a political movement even if they invest time and energy denying the facts they do notice so while it s real and great and necessary to talk only about theory whenever i bring personal experiences into it that s a way of giving examples to theory proving it in a small way if you will because i know i am not alone i am not special i am not the only one these things happen or have happened or will ever happen to there is a connection there is an explanation if even one other woman can read or listen to what i write or say and draw a connection to her own life and have that moment of realization that she isn t alone either then that is why i am here that is the bridge to theory which is hopefully then a bridge to further change personal change is also political women have written that actions like eschewing beauty practices or purposefully and deliberately foregoing piv intercourse are individualistic solutions but i really question whether those women know what individualistic actually means naturally we as feminists and radicals should also seek wider change but smaller changes often make wider changes easier for a not explicitly feminist example recycling and going green in the actual sense of the term not the marketed consumer sense are personal choices but they add up to something larger it s not the same as dismantling the industries that pollute but we would still be much worse off as a whole if no one recycled and everyone used pesticides chemicals even if a woman s changes positively impact only her own life in the short term for example if she stops loathing her natural body if she reduces her risk of getting cancer from the chemicals in hair dyes and cosmetics and or cleaning products if she breaks the cycle of sinking valuable energy into trauma bonding contraception illness potential impregnation etc if these changes are in line with larger radically feminist change that is still positive and that is definitely still political if nothing else it indicates if to no one but ourselves that change is possible and since we do not live in our own private vacuum sealed bubbles other people do notice and it does often become a learning moment if that positively impacts at least one other person if another woman learns that she too can break the cycle then we are accomplishing something it might sound like hippie bullshit but we re all connected in some way and just because it sounds like hippie bullshit doesn t mean it isn t true posted in uncategorized 6 comments radical feminism the highlander posted on january 18 2012 by trees recently i ve been reading interesting discussions about what is and should be the primary focus of radical feminism is it reproductive freedom which as i understand it encompasses freedom from unwanted sexual contact eg rape as well as freedom from unwanted pregnancies well certainly that s a main concern but how much do other things play a role in women s oppression things like poverty homophobia transsexual infringement on women s spaces certainly racism isn t an issue nobody in radical feminism suffers from that right wink nudge it s pretty clear that all of these issues affect women however women often feel that if all women don t suffer from a particular oppression it is not necessarily a radical feminist concern not all women are not white hence racism should be left to anti racist groups not all women are poor hence poverty should be left to anti poverty groups otherwise we are being individualistic and taking energy away from women as a whole all this approach does however is make radical feminism into that thing we claim we are not a monolith that privileges rich white women to the exclusion of other experiences naturally this isn t anything new rich while white is considered the default experience for everyone across the globe just look at television paying particular attention to advertisement specific media all of which is catered at what americans euphemistically call the middle class integrated only grudgingly and always with some amount of disposable income and desire for upward social financial mobility now of course women universally share many of the same oppressions the primary commonality between all women is our vulnerability to rape and most women share susceptibility to unwanted pregnancies both from rape and from consentual heterosexual intercourse unfortunately even lifelong lesbians can be raped and impregnated and even women who are infertile can be raped so none of us have guaranteed safety these things are not in question in fact many liberal feminists can even figure them out although they usually take divergent approaches to solving the problems but as radical feminists we should understand that there are more factors at play we should understand that women are oppressed from multiple angles including race class ability age love for other women and politics even in 2012 political incarceration isn t just for occupy protesters weathermen and people in guantanamo bay or outside of the western world inventing a nice and tidy academic word intersectionality doesn t mean the same thing as actually understanding those oppressions and these oppressions are often a primary factor in a woman s life while our unifying oppression is that of vulnerability and often impregnability white class privileged women may notice it more because they don t have to notice other things like being profiled constantly for superficial reasons and living under the incessant threat of being arrested for absolutely no valid reason and as radical feminists we should also understand that patriarchy is the root of female oppression and patriarchy isn t just men and the way men are taught to permitted to behave it is also the entangled web of male created systems everything around us is a male created system legislation the laws we have the ways they are enforced and why education the things we learn the way we learn who is given the opportunity to learn and why finances who makes and spends money how and why they make and spend money everything that makes up life as we know it all are male created male centric systems they aren t just influenced by patriarchy they are patriarchy life without patriarchy would not just mean women getting better educations and better jobs therefore making more money life without patriarchy would likely revolve around a completely different form of exchange and therefore we would have no money education and jobs would mean completely different things to which point that we would not recognize them from here the ways we define success and quality of life would change drastically the ways we eat and the things we eat the ways we live and the places we live the things we prioritize above other things the ways we decide to spend our time and our lives and our energies the ways we look at and think about oth...