SWERFs are a specific group with a specific (and incredibly dangerous) ideology, they form organised lobbying groups. They are different from the standard run of the mill whorephobes and I wish we would keep our terms clear.
Tag: whorephobia
AND ADDITIONALLY
If anyone’s like “BUT IT’S THE 18TH CENTURY”
I know that motherfucker, and guess what? I’VE READ A BUNCH OF STUFF ABOUT AND BY HISTORICAL SEX WORKERS AND YOU KNOW WHAT’S MOTHERFUCKING HILARIOUS?????
It’s the same. It’s always the fucking same. We joke around behind Johns’ backs and our lives are like… often really normal. They’re not super dramatic action packed nonsense like this and I’m just sick of being endlessly ENDLESSLY portrayed as simultaneously tragic and unceasingly disloyal and immoral (like telling Quiggly about Emily). We’re usually sort of bawdy and snarky and tough.
Nancy and Violet are both totally real though and I love them
Whorephobia in Harlots and Harlots Fandom
Honestly, a lot of the fandom is whorephobic and terrible and a lot of the writing is whorephobic and terrible (and lazy and unrealistic)
Like Haxby is a little shit, your ship is gross. He’s been blatantly, unforgivably HORRIBLE to Charlotte.
The ship with Marney is honestly amazing because it’s two sex workers who get the biz, who get each other being together HOWEVER it’s being handled in the shittiest fucking “Let me take you away from all this” way and I hate it.
Sex work is being treated as ultimately demeaning and degrading REPEATEDLY
All the misery porn, all the suffering, the fact that Lord Scumbag turned on Charlotte just to make it so that no one could be good at this and be okay with their work, all sex workers have to suffer. They should have let him continue to be the kind of client he is, an impotent pouty man-child who wants the glamorous status symbol and is vexed by her, but like… doesn’t turn massively spiteful and over the top vengeful because he’s not even that determined.
The type of suffering, in my experience as a sex worker, is unrealistic. It should be the moral crusader as the main antagonist, not the rival madame.
The fact that they’ve made pretty much all of the notable clients sadistic fucking monsters says a lot about their view of sex work and sex workers, most clients are just… dudes who want to get off and be told they’re real good at it. You don’t have to make them the antagonists but the writers CHOSE to. They chose to make another madam and the clients their main antagonists when there are SO many other options.
We’re not helpless victims, our clients are largely not monsters.
Can our work never be portrayed as just work?
This should be a lot more slice of life and a lot less over the top and I’m honestly just SO fucking angry with so many of you.
The Murdered Stripper Storyline In Bojack Horseman Is Lazy Writing and Offensive
I expected fucking better from you. Also the whole smug superiority of the faux advertisement is dehumanizing (heeey literally) and messed up.
I wonder what people would say about me in the true crime documentary if I was ever murdered… oh wait I’m a sex worker, they wouldn’t interview anyone who cared about me unless it was to disparage my career.
Do You Know Why Serial Killers Target Sex Workers
Not because our existence fuels misogyny but because to polite society, we might as well be animals.
We do not matter, so we’re easy targets for any man who gets off on hurting women.
I Love How Mystery Authors (Especially Female Ones)
Assume that the blonde, fake boobed bits of fluff with which they equip attractive male criminals (who lady detectives swoon over) are stupider, sillier, and less brutal than their male counterparts, I also love how they make them meaningless accessories to their “golden hearted gangsters” like somehow their toughness, and willingness to do what it takes to survive or to escape a hellish background is to be censured where on a man who actually kills and intimidates people it’s vaguely admirable.
Gross. Bougie bitches wanting tough scary prole dudes and trying to throw prole women under the bus are gross.
Also I Feel Like You Could Write A Whole Master’s Thesis
On female yaoi roleplayers fucked up portrayals of sex workers. Cause like dudes have their own tropes… but IDK the way women fetishize sex workers is such a unique mess.
The Problem With Burlesque Dancers & Vintage Lovers Who Shame Sex Workers
My only issue with “we’re the same” is it doesn’t acknowledge the systemic differences in treatment of women who do “the classy version” and those of us who do the “trashy evil version” but yeah basically
Though admittedly I feel really fucking resentful of people who do get to enjoy the cultures we created without experiencing social stigma sometimes, even if they’re not being actively whorephobic, but like it’s not that I resent sharing the culture really so much as resent the fact that they get to have sexy fun times (often because of societal privileges actual sex workers lack) while we’re treated like shit, and like I think a lot of them don’t understand fighting, and the struggle involved in carving out those spaces for ourselves, you know?
The Problem With Burlesque Dancers & Vintage Lovers Who Shame Sex Workers
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 