Comments for Feminisnt http://www.feminisnt.com I'm an atheist who has been a full-time pornographer and sex worker for 10 years, but I'm now transitioning out of the jizz biz into a science career. In my silly younger days, I was a "sex-positive feminist," but I grew up and stopped trying to shoehorn myself into a useless ideology like a pair of ill-fitting high heels. I oppose the core feminist beliefs that women are inherently feeble victims, brainwashed by "the patriarchy," and that we can't succeed in life unless we're treated like babies and exempted from fair competition. I operate SWAAY.org, the only sex workers' rights project aimed solely at public outreach and education. My philosophy is informed primarily by Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse: "I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice." Schadenfreude is my spirit animal. Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:43:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Frequently Addressed Accusation: "You misrepresent true feminism by focusing on the bad feminists. They're not real feminists anyway!" by Remember that time in high school when you swore you weren’t “feminist”?/ Open Thread | Disrupting Dinner Parties http://www.feminisnt.com/2013/frequently-addressed-accusation-you-misrepresent-true-feminism-by-focusing-on-the-bad-feminists-theyre-not-real-feminists-anyway/#comment-69618 Remember that time in high school when you swore you weren’t “feminist”?/ Open Thread | Disrupting Dinner Parties Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:43:15 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=5108#comment-69618 [...] At “Feminisnt”: Frequently Addressed Accusation: “You misrepresent true feminism by focusing on the bad femini...  (from February 2013) [...]

]]> Comment on Fighting 2257 laws: the individual privacy rights angle by That Was the Week That Was (#314) | The Honest Courtesan http://www.feminisnt.com/2013/fighting-2257-laws-the-individual-privacy-rights-angle/#comment-69423 That Was the Week That Was (#314) | The Honest Courtesan Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:03:40 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=5170#comment-69423 [...] Furry Girl explains how laws supposedly intended to “protect children” were really intended to harass the porn industry: [...]

]]> Comment on Goodbye, Shannon Larratt. Everyone who publishes explicit imagery owes you a debt of gratitude by Memorials | STAY CALM http://www.feminisnt.com/2013/goodbye-shannon-larratt-everyone-who-publishes-explicit-imagery-owes-you-a-debt-of-gratitude/#comment-69218 Memorials | STAY CALM Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:27:32 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=5163#comment-69218 [...] Feminisnt: Goodbye Shannon Larratt [...]

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]]> Comment on Frequently Addressed Accusation: "You misrepresent true feminism by focusing on the bad feminists. They're not real feminists anyway!" by That Was the Week That Was (#139) | The Honest Courtesan http://www.feminisnt.com/2013/frequently-addressed-accusation-you-misrepresent-true-feminism-by-focusing-on-the-bad-feminists-theyre-not-real-feminists-anyway/#comment-69194 That Was the Week That Was (#139) | The Honest Courtesan Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:45:30 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=5108#comment-69194 [...] redoubtable Furry Girl presents a devastating critique of sex-positive feminists’ insistence that theirs is the only true [...]

]]> Comment on Vigilantism and 'crushing bastards': in praise of anger, hatred, and taking joy in the smiting of one's enemies by There Will Never Be a Be-All, End-All Rulebook For Productive Discussion | Research to be Done http://www.feminisnt.com/2010/vigilantism-and-crushing-bastards-in-praise-of-anger-hatred-and-taking-joy-in-the-smiting-of-ones-enemies/#comment-69152 There Will Never Be a Be-All, End-All Rulebook For Productive Discussion | Research to be Done Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:20:45 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=2453#comment-69152 [...] action that is wildly disproportionate in one context can be completely appropriate in another is, as one of my favorite bloggers once put it, like trying to reduce morality to an auto-reply form letter (the context in which the following [...]

]]> Comment on Goodbye, Shannon Larratt. Everyone who publishes explicit imagery owes you a debt of gratitude by RIP Shannon Larratt, The Accidental Pornographer | Fleshbot http://www.feminisnt.com/2013/goodbye-shannon-larratt-everyone-who-publishes-explicit-imagery-owes-you-a-debt-of-gratitude/#comment-69151 RIP Shannon Larratt, The Accidental Pornographer | Fleshbot Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:25:36 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=5163#comment-69151 [...] would take extreme content. Fellow pornographer Furry Girl actually wrote a nice piece about how publishers of extreme images owe him a debt. On the day of his death, alt porn punk rock princess Joanna Angel tweeted at me: he is the reason [...]

]]> Comment on Frequently Addressed Accusation: "You misrepresent true feminism by focusing on the bad feminists. They're not real feminists anyway!" by What sex workers want | Bjørn Stærk http://www.feminisnt.com/2013/frequently-addressed-accusation-you-misrepresent-true-feminism-by-focusing-on-the-bad-feminists-theyre-not-real-feminists-anyway/#comment-69062 What sex workers want | Bjørn Stærk Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:16:30 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=5108#comment-69062 [...] sex worker activist explains that she is tired of listening to women who claim that they are “good feminists” who support sex worker rights, but never do anything to take the movement back from the “bad [...]

]]> Comment on Advocating for sex workers outside of the feminist / kinkster / sex-positive bubble: who's tried what? by Comfort Zone | The Honest Courtesan http://www.feminisnt.com/2011/advocating-for-sex-workers-outside-of-the-feminist-kinkster-sex-positive-bubble-whos-tried-what/#comment-68921 Comfort Zone | The Honest Courtesan Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:14:36 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=2993#comment-68921 [...] by confronting adversity and overcoming obstacles.  This is especially important in activism; as Furry Girl has often pointed out, most sex worker rights advocates restrict themselves to the “sex-positive” or feminist [...]

]]> Comment on "Familiarity is breeding tolerance": another reminder of why being out is the best form of sex worker activism by That Was the Week That Was (#51) « The Honest Courtesan http://www.feminisnt.com/2012/familiarity-is-breeding-tolerance-another-reminder-of-why-being-out-is-the-best-form-of-sex-worker-activism/#comment-68088 That Was the Week That Was (#51) « The Honest Courtesan Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:33:03 +0000 http://www.feminisnt.com/?p=5080#comment-68088 [...] Furry Girl writes about the way people’s acceptance of unfamiliar things like marijuana use, homosexuality and sex work tends to grow as they get to know real people who are involved with those things, and she proposes an experiment for those shy about coming out: Go to a bar in the next city over, or a music festival out of town, or just tell the person sitting next to you on the bus or subway.  Try openness on for just a day, or even 15 minutes.  You will get some bad reactions, but I think it will surprise you how many people won’t be an asshole to you.  Be prepared for questions, which you can choose to answer or not. [...]

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