Author: Madeira Darling

Madeira Darling is a snarky mystic, devout Satanist, serious Marxist, laughing dominatrix, and writer from San Fransisco where they live with their boyfriend in a house full of altars to their various demons.

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My new favorite shirt. So sparkly. So completely on brand for me. Especially since it’s supporting a good cause. 

Some backstory: My friend Maggie McMuffin was fighting with a TERF who called her a “porn sick bisexual,” even though Maggie’s a lesbian, because apparently she got this crazy notion that trans women are women from porn? And that somehow makes her not a lesbian? I don’t get it either. Anyway, she made these shirts, and the proceeds are being donated to the Gender Justice League. 

If you want to support trans rights and have a glittery shirt of your own, you can still get them from Sparkletown Studios!

when ur so deep in modern exploitative women=sex objects culture that you can wear a t-shirt saying “porn sick” without puking at the thought

Porn can definitely be sexist. You know what else is sexist? Every other industry. Publishing, technology, teaching, Hollywood, medicine, food, accounting. Literally name a job, and there will be a list of women with stories of sexist discrimination. But we don’t say those jobs are bad because there are sexist people doing them. Porn can be sexist but it isn’t inherently sexist.

The way we make an industry less sexist is by letting women and gender minorities have more power and self control. I know countless people in sex work, doing exactly what they like. They’re happy, and they feel empowered. Are there bad days and drawbacks? Sure, but that’s any job. Equating all sex work with rape like you did in your tags makes it sooooooooo much harder for actual victims of rape in sex work to take action. Because sex workers DO consent to their work. Taking away their right to say yes takes away their ability to say no.

I will say, though, that SWERF ideology has literally made me puke before. Y’all are not kind people.

You know what industry I really like comparing the porn industry to? The novelty t-shirt industry, they produce incredibly misogynistic content very frequently, they’re usually produced under hideous labor conditions and yet there’s nothing *inherently* evil about them.

What about women who are rich but don’t own the means of production? Like: lawyers and doctors and professors who don’t hire or fire new members of their firms, hospitals, or labs? Because as someone who’s well off, I don’t want to invade spaces I don’t have claim to, you know?

The petite bourgeoisie can be reactionary or progressive depending on the individual and prevailing social conditions… also they’re very rarely grande bourgeois rich

I go to a public school that mixes rich with poor. They don’t care about us. Just their iPhones and eyebrows.

Ah, you’re a kid, that explains this.  Look, the owning class has material power over the working class and that sort of power makes it really hard to see clearly.  You’re in school together as peers right now and while class does affect things while you’re in school still, it’s not as dramatic as when one of them is in charge of whether you’re getting paid enough to afford healthcare.

Do you see what I’m saying?  Also this blog is not an appropriate place for kids, please go.

Nobody in politics or higher than the lower middle class really cares about other people.

Well, no, technically nobody with political power cares about other people outside their class interests because the material conditions make it impossible for them to fully understand what needs doing.

I’m talking about the bourgeoisie, not “the middle class” which is a meaningless nonsense term.  Do you own the means of production?  No?  Then you’re not a member of the bourgeois, for christ’s sake.

Just A Reminder That Today Is International WORKING Women’s Day

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Which was created to commemorate a series of strikes done by teenage girls working in factories.

Bourgeois women do not get to participate.

Go away.

Find your own day, your class loyalties will always trump your gender loyalties and we don’t want you.

Who needs numbers or solidarity? We’re too cool for that. And surely women with money don’t deal with male violence, pregnancies, abortions, rape, any of those things just like the rest of us. So let’s see how many women we can alienate who have decided to be in solidarity. I think it’s a good plan!

Bourgeois women will never be in solidarity with working class women. The bourgeoisie is incapable of solidarity with the proletariat

They are incapable of solidarity across the board as a class, but the individual members are not. Allowing the participation of those who see working class women and their struggles and find common ground makes more sense to me than going out of our way to alienate them. Building consensus as women is of more feminist value than using the distinctions created by men to deepen the divisions they have in place primarily to keep us from organizing against their tyranny in massive numbers. The primary purpose of class division for patriarchy is to further the goals of the patriarchy and bourgeois women have access to privilege and power only as much as the men they are connected with do, and it is possible for them to pull the rug out from under that as they please. These women are acutely aware that they are not truly a part of the power structure and benefit only by association. If we make the choice to turn away those who would side with other women then it just makes it easier for the men that abuse them to say there is no solidarity to be found with other women so they are better off tolerating the abuse.

Bougie women don’t give a shit about clinic closures because they can fly off to get an abortion where it is legal. They will never be the ones that truly suffer as the rest of us do. Rich women overwhelmingly voted for Trump. They know which side their bread is buttered on. Also Slut-shaming is more classed than it is gendered and bourgeois women use it to put prole women in their place.

They are our enemies.