So I’m thinking about anti-capitalist SWERFs and how like 1. Their readings of anti-capitalist thought are shallow af 2. How even leftists (of a bourgeois or “respectable” proletarian type) often buy into bourgeois mythology about working class women, and their sexualities that plays into patronizing bullshit.

Like I think one of the reasons 19th century bourgeois feminists/moral campaigners were so concerned about sex workers was because A: It was a more attractive option than domestic work or factory work in many cases, meaning that it drew away potential servants, B: The desire to control and regulate social reproduction for capital, and C: As part of problematizing and pathologizing working class women to leave them eternally backfooted and having to prove they aren’t ‘the problem’ thus keeping feminist spaces controlled by the bourgeois

And like I think a lot of leftists, even important theorists have bought the “OUT OF CONTROL” or even “Mindless victims” bourgeois propagated myths about working class femininity

Like Beverley Skeggs touches sort of the edge of this issue in the introduction of Formations Of Class and gender but doesn’t cover it in depth.