u/aphextwinstudymusic

Many pro-sw libfems will point to the vocal minority of “sex workers” who support full decrim and hate on the Nordic Model for personal profit motives as proof that full decrim is the feminist position. However, I don't think this argument works because women are capable of being anti-feminist and “sex workers” who use their position of privilege in the industry to justify males paying to sexually exploit women and children are exactly that.

Prostitution is a male supremacist institution catered to sexually entitled males who think they have the right to purchase women’s bodies and use them as sex objects. The fact that some women choose to participate in it doesn’t change that premise. Actually, I think willingly choosing to participate in and justifying prostitution makes them a perpetrator of misogyny and I have a lot of difficulty accepting the fact that I'm expected to elevate their voices when they are using it to support anti-feminist activities.

Idk I’m just tired of libfems smearing abolitionist feminists as bigots for supporting the Nordic Model, while acting like these entrepreneurial self-aware girlboss-type “sex workers” are irreproachable models of feminist enlightenment whose opinions should be elevated at all costs even though their whole business model is just pandering to sexist rapist males, at the expense of not just millions of vulnerable women and children being sexually exploited but all women in general.

So I'm curious what you all think: Does feminism always have to be inclusive? Is swerfism politically necessary as part of our greater goal to protect women and children from male sexual violence?

I will always maintain that a major reason why Anora was so popular with professional critics and industry players/the Academy (all overwhelmingly male institutions) is because the film serves up extremely gratuitous levels of female nudity wrapped up in a social realist "cinema of the oppressed" packaging, which gave hetero male cinephiles the opportunity to disguise their sexual consumption of the objectified female body as intellectual exercise.

I know some radfems (including some in this sub) are willing to partially redeem the film because the ending portrays prostitution as psychologically devastating but that doesn't change the fact that the first half of the movie completely indulges in not just the hypersexualization of the subjugated female body but also the fantasy of the "sex worker" who's young and fun and sexy and doesn't necessarily like her "job" too much yet is still more than willing to play the part because sexually objectifying herself for the male gaze is her choice yay!!!!!!

No matter how much you try to intellectualize it, the end result always leads to the same thing: a bunch of proto-pornographic images of women that males can jerk themselves off to.

I remember posting a critique of this film in a movie sub and one of my points was that the extended sequences of the protagonist sexualizing herself for the male gaze were boring and cliche so I wrote something like “everyone already knows what happens inside a strip club, how about the director shows us what the main character is like outside of that context” and some fucking moid genuinely responded “Oh you think EVERYONE knows what happens inside a strip club? What about an amish guy who’s on rumspringa and this is the first movie he’s ever watched in his entire life?” like these coomers will come up with the wildest shit to defend their jerk off material lmao