Tweet by Avery Edison, @aedison:
CAPITALISM: Get a job. Get a job or you’re worthless.
Get a job. Why aren’t you getting a job? Get a job. Get a job already.
Get a jo-
WOMAN: Fine, I’ll do sex work.
CAPITALISM: Ew, no, not that job!
WOMAN: Why not?
CAPITALISM: Someone might be forcing you to do it.
Because a lot of women who get into sex work ARE forced to do things they don’t want to do, even if they don’t start out that way. I’m all for forward thinking and finding your own brand of feminism, but every sex worker I know personally (admittedly only 6) has made compromises they regret in their work. Know what you’re getting into. Sex work in itself is not empowerment and the stakes are high.
You missed the point by about 500 miles.
The point is that capitalism forces sex workers to sell their labor in often undesirable conditions because capitalism forces ALL workers to do that.
The problem isn’t sex work versus other work, it’s capitalism. And there is nothing ‘empowering’ about being forced to sell your labor under any circumstances. Work is not empowering, work is exploitation.
And the answer is fighting for workers rights and anti-capitalism every single time.
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