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QotD: "The Tools of Campus Activists Are Being Turned Against Them"
At UC Davis, where student activists still hope to oust Chancellor Linda Katehi, critics of their activism are using concepts like "safe space" and "hostile climate" to attack it.
The student activists had occupied a small room outside Katehi's office, planning to stay until their chancellor resigned or was removed from her post. By the time they left 36 days later, a petition that now bears roughly 100 signatures of UC Davis students and staff were demanding that they prematurely end their occupation, criticizing their tactics, and alleging a number of grave transgressions: The signatories accused the student activists of sexism, racism, bullying, abuse, and harassment, complaining that many who used the administration building "no longer feel safe." The student activists say that those charges are unfair.
The conflict illustrates a pattern that campus observers are likely see more and more in coming years: Insofar as progressives succeed in remaking campuses into places unusually sensitive to psychological harms, where transgressing against "safe spaces" is both easy to do and verboten, confrontational activism will no longer be viable.
[The] anti-activist backlash is relevant to those trying to understand campus politics and to activists who care enough about righteous causes to avoid derailing them. The 100-some critics of the campus activists began their statement as follows:
Some of us agree with the broader issues of the protesters, like greater transparency and more dialogue between the students and campus administration. But we write to strongly condemn the tactics of the protesters, including sexist and racist behaviors, threatening and bullying of staff, students and faculty who come to Mrak Hall to work. We feel that these actions undermine not only the values of our campus community, but also the ideals which the protesters claim to defend. Several students and staff have been treated abusively by the protesters.
It's worth pausing here to note that, this being a group petition on a college campus, what's characterized as "threatening" and "bullying" and "abuse" may describe behavior that others would call "harassing" or "annoying" or "irritating." Concept creep has robbed us of linguistic clarity or precision in these matters.
That said, the first specific allegation is disconcerting:
Several protesters took to shouting that an employee was a "coconut" (brown on the outside, white on the inside) for being a Latina who works for UC Davis.
Since my days in college, when I first heard a friend attacked as a "banana" for challenging a belief of a campus Asian American group, my blood has boiled at the tiny but noxious subset of leftists who stress the importance of identity in politics, then try to exclude people of color from their own respective racial groups–– often using slurs––to evade an inconvenient reality: Neither African Americans nor Latinos nor Asian Americans nor Pacific Islanders nor women are ideologically monolithic. Social-justice progressives do not speak for many in those groups.
The statement continued:
Several students and staff were stalked for a period of time after leaving a meeting with the Chancellor. Many students and staff who are supposed to work in Mrak no longer feel safe. Staff and student workers have been also filmed without their permission. For the sake of the daily operations of UC Davis, we call upon the Mrak Hall protesters to move their protest to a location that does not lead to these aggressive disruptions of UC staff and student work spaces in case they have plans to continue this protest.
Again, I suspect my threshold for what constitutes "stalking" is higher than that employed by the authors of this letter. What's beyond dispute is that a group of protesters followed Katehi and a small group of students and staff she was speaking with across campus, filming them without their consent, snarking at Katehi, making her companions visibly uncomfortable—as almost anyone would have been in similar circumstances—and coming off … well, you can judge for yourself.
This was petulant and self-indulgent. It was an excuse for two or three activists to peacock and self-aggrandize. The fact that it was posted publicly, as if those who took the footage thought it reflected well on them even in hindsight, astonishes me. The female activist who shouts her head off across campus, literally serenading her chancellor with insults, claims at one point that she is being silenced!
But the part that struck me most is when, at roughly 6:25, one of the student activists reacts to the apparently unplanned arrival of an adult black male, who is friendly toward Katehi, by accusing the chancellor of "doing what they usually do, which is grabbing a person of color as a shield—that's a tactic that the chancellor likes to use."
This for merely talking to a black person who approached.
That activist couldn't see the black man as an autonomous subject—only as a white person's prop. The offensive jump makes sense within a highly stylized ideology wherein Katehi is "the oppressor" and all black people are "the oppressed." By that logic, the only possible reason she would be doing something as enlightened as cordially interacting with one of "the oppressed" is if the black man was functioning not as a person, but as a "prop" and a "tactic," never mind his agency.
The whole encounter is dripping with dehumanization.
It's ironic, this recurring feature of campus protests: Time after time, activists wield phone cameras, intending to publicly discredit any adversary who lets so much as a "microaggression" slip. And in doing so, they inadvertently reveal prejudices that spring predictably, though quite unintentionally, from flaws in their belief system.
The civil-rights movement, the free-speech movement, the anti-Vietnam protests, and protesters on both sides of the gun and abortion questions have all deliberately tried to make others uncomfortable, intellectually if not physically. They've all shouted, insulted, provoked, and tried to deny their opponents "safe spaces."
Today's strain of campus progressivism has a more ambiguous relationship with traditional liberal values, finding them too viewpoint neutral and rough-and-tumble.
Still, most campus protests are left-leaning. And administrators cannot help but realize that almost all of that activism is, on some level, about confrontation—that it frequently involves a lot of shouting or chanting or marching or banging on drums. Now, any time such protests challenge the interests of the administration, or make their jobs marginally harder or their lives marginally more inconvenient, they can always pinpoint some folks who are earnestly upset or unnerved by all the ruckus.
They can always undermine the activists of the moment by finding the students experiencing "trauma" from all the conflict; the staff members who feel "unsafe" around protesters, the community member who, in the new paradigm, somehow feel "silenced."
As best I can tell, this does not worry leftist activists yet, perhaps because they mostly operate on shorter time-horizons than other campus power brokers, or perhaps because they see themselves as marginalized and mistakenly believe these standards will never be applied to them, even though it's already happening.
QotD2: "Unethical practices produce New York Times' 'sex work' story"
Bazelon's claim that she'd known nothing of this topic or debate prior to beginning work on this piece seems even stranger as I discovered her connections to George Soros, a billionaire whose Open Society Foundations (OSF) not only is a major donor to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HWR), and UNAIDS, but a number of sex work lobby groups across the world. Soros and OSF funded the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), which was revealed to be a front for a pimping operation last year, as their vice president, Gil Alejandra, who served as co-chair of the UNAIDS Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work & Global Working Group on HIV and Sex Work Policy, was arrested for sex trafficking. (Bazelon spoke to the president of NSWP for her piece, but didn't mention the trafficking conviction, though she had been made her aware of it by another interviewee, Rachel Moran.) The man who appears to be the biggest financial backer of the pro-legalization lobby in the world, whose organization is overtly pro-legalization and funded reports Amnesty International relied on in order to support their position also has longstanding ties to Bazelon and her family. Bazelon herself was a Soros Media Fellow in 2004 and her grandfather's foundation, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (Emily's sister and mother both serve on the Center's board), receives over a $1 million in funding from OSF.
Bazelon says that it was only Amnesty International's recent vote to adopt a pro-industry position that led her to support legalization. But this claim is hard to believe when we consider the bias she conveys in the piece, her connections to Soros, and the fact that she doesn't acknowledge that Amnesty International, HRW, and WHO did not simply "discover" a grassroots "sex worker movement" independently, leading them to push for legalization. Rather, these organizations, alongside Soros' OSF, have been working with pimps, traffickers, and industry lobbyists to develop policy for some time.
The report by Kat Banyard, which points out that NSWP was appointed Co-Chair of the UNAIDS "Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work" in 2009, explains:
"UNAIDS is the international body responsible for leading global efforts to reverse the spread of HIV, and the advisory group was established to 'review and participate in the development of UNAIDS policy, programme or advocacy documents, or statements.' Alejandra Gil is also personally acknowledged in a 2012 World Health Organisation (WHO) report about the sex trade as one of the 'experts' who dedicated her 'time and expertise' to developing its recommendations. NSWP's logo is on the front cover, alongside the logos of WHO, UNAIDS and the United Nations Population Fund."
How can reports and policy funded by a billionaire who is specifically invested in the legalization of prostitution and that were developed in consultation with pimps and traffickers be either unbiased or be considered connected to "grassroots movements" in any way? The "movements" Bazelon references as having inspired Amnesty International, HRW, and WHO to develop these policies and positions are, in fact, organizations funded by Soros himself.
Bazelon's dismissal of the Nordic model is yet another mistake made in her efforts to cling to neutrality. In an interview on the Diane Rehm show, she repeats erroneous claims that, while street prostitution appears to have decreased in Sweden after the implementation of the Nordic model, the purchase of sex did not, based on the increased number of ads online. But reports from Sweden say the ads are unrepresentative, as many of the ads posted are duplicates and/or posted by the same person. From the report:
"Authorities who have studied escort ads in the past have noted that one and the same seller of sexual services is often found in several advertisements. This finding is also indicated by the internet surveys, mainly in the form of the same telephone number cropping up during a search of several advertising sites. The overlap between the number of advertisements and escort sites and the duplication of many ads is shown by both surveys. This is also confirmed by other authorities working the field. Against this background, there is nothing indicating that the actual number of individuals engaging in prostitution has increased."
While she admits that abolitionists are "oppos[ed] to arresting" prostituted women, Bazelon adds, "But they want to continue using the criminal law as a weapon of moral disapproval by prosecuting male customers, alongside pimps and traffickers — though this approach still tends to entangle sex workers in a legal net." She fails to explain what she means by that and quickly moves forward to paint support for the Nordic model as something clueless American celebrities and ideologues do: The "man" vs the little guy, is the impression we are meant to get… The "man" being Gloria Steinem and Meryl Streep, and the "little guy" being, of course, the so-called "sex worker."
Bazelon casually throws out the term "carceral feminism," quoting Elizabeth Bernstein, a sociologist who studies "sex work," who explains that abolitionists "have relied upon strategies of incarceration as their chief tool of 'justice,'" going on to imply the history of abolition is connected to "faith-based" and "evangelical" groups who worked with George W. Bush to raid brothels for American TV audiences. She continues to connect abolitionists to Bush and to evangelicals throughout the piece, failing to acknowledge that the feminists who support the Nordic model today do so through a socialist lens and have always been part of an actual independent, radical, grassroots feminist movement.
Ignoring the decades-old grassroots women's movement and the ongoing, tireless work of underfunded working-class women and women of colour who have been fighting prostitution for years is one of Bazelon's most suspect choices. She discusses organizations funded by Open Society Foundations and the Gates Foundation, many of which have ties to pimps and traffickers, without question but erases or misrepresents the work of movement women who have nothing to gain from their fight against prostitution but a better life for women and girls and a more equitable world in the future.
Bazelon's claim that decriminalization will make "people's lives better, and safer" is not only untrue, but is based on money, not facts… The money that supports efforts to legalize is vast and passed around among sex industry lobby groups, civil liberty and human rights organizations, and, apparently, journalists. The incentive to support decriminalization is very clearly financial — prostitution is yet another billion-dollar global industry. It is unconscionable to ignore that reality when discussing key players. Support for decriminalization is also rooted in a deep desire to believe that a situation that is clearly not "okay" by any means can somehow become "okay," despite ample evidence showing that this will never be the case.
Like the cover photo, which aims to convince the reader that "diversity" was a priority in Bazelon's reporting (but, in fact, only featured those who both identify as "sex workers" and live in three American cities: New York, San Fransisco, and Seattle), the entire story intentionally removes or distorts the perspectives of abolitionists and survivors, positioning sex work advocates as the diverse expert voices that legitimize her piece.
While Bazelon claims the view she presents (which is, to be clear, her own) "poses a deep challenge to traditional Western feminism," she's ironically ignored the fact that Indigenous women and women's groups say that prostitution never existed in their cultures until they were colonized by the West. Beyond that, almost all liberal American publications (many of which claim to be feminist) support the legalization of prostitution, as do, of course, privileged men. These are the voices and publications that dominate Western discourse and have the funding to promote their views. Men are the people who, at the end of the day, benefit from prostitution — their power is reinforced through its existence.
Bazelon herself is nothing if not a voice for Western privilege and liberalism, based on her Ivy League education, career, connections, and the ideology she supports. After all, is there anything more "mainstream" than the commodification and sexualization of women's bodies? Certainly there is nothing more "traditional" than patriarchy itself.
Meghan Murphy, Feminist Current, full article with links references here.
QotD: "Unethical practices produce New York Times 'sex work' story"
Over the weekend, Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the New York Times, published an article called "Should Prostitution Be a Crime?" What she didn't say was that she had already answered her own question, and that she chose to distort (or outright ignore) facts and interviews in order to push a narrative in support of full decriminalization, under the guise of neutral reporting.
Her bias becomes clear early on to anyone who is familiar with the politically loaded term, "sex work," which she adopts uncritically, claiming this is "the term activists prefer." While Bazelon admits that most of those who speak publicly as "sex workers" are white and very privileged in comparison to most women in the industry, she doesn't challenge the language.
The piece centered itself around Amnesty International's recent decision to adopt a policy supporting the decriminalization of pimps and johns. Due to the choice of organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW), World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS, and Amnesty International to advocate for the legalization of prostitution, Bazelon is able to claim this as the "human rights" approach to prostitution legislation, without acknowledging the unethical ways these organizations came to this advocacy, the hypocrisy of this position, and without fairly representing the opposition. In fact, defining decriminalization as the "human rights argument" is a distortion tactic itself as, by comparison, those who oppose the legalization of the industry are positioned as not being onside with human rights goals. In truth, prostitution itself is defined as "incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person" by the UN, meaning that organizations like Amnesty International and HRW defy their own mission statements, core values, and responsibilities by advocating for a system that accepts and normalizes prostitution.
Bazelon claims that "sex work" activists are "fighting the legal status quo, social mores, and also mainstream feminism," leading me to wonder who and what, exactly, Bazelon believes "mainstream feminism" is…
Feminism is a radical movement that fights a system of oppression called "patriarchy," so to call it "mainstream" is strange, in and of itself. But I myself have, admittedly, used the term from time to time, in reference to the large, mainstream, liberal publications that promote a version of "feminism" that is pro-capitalist, pro-objectification, pro-sex industry, and that fail to challenge male power at its root. This is to say that, when I have used the term "mainstream feminism," (which I have, in the past, used interchangeably with other terms such as "Playboy feminism," "liberal feminism," and "corporate feminism") I don't mean "feminism" at all. My perspective is that feminism is not, as celebrities like Matt McGorry and corporate beauty magazines like Cosmo and Glamour claim, a thing that happens any time a woman makes a choice about anything at all, nor is it something that is not specifically about "women's liberation" but rather about "gender equality," nor is it something that must necessarily be inclusive of men. No. Feminism is a movement that is focused on ending the oppression of women under patriarchy and on ending the male violence women are subjected to within that system.
That Bazelon positions those fighting for men's right to legally buy and sell women as "fighting mainstream feminism" confirms either ignorance with regard to what the feminist movement actually is or a strong bias.
But Bazelon not only doesn't acknowledge a bias, but denies one, saying in a video conversation posted to Facebook shortly after the article was published, "Six months ago, I really knew almost nothing about this topic."
This claim is hard to believe, even without considering the perspective put forth in the piece, which left out testimonies from survivors, distorted quotes from abolitionists, presenting them as out-of-touch conservatives, irrational ideologues, and misogynists, and provided false information about both the Nordic model and decriminalization.
In one case, Bazelon writes, "Melissa Farley, a psychologist who received Bush funds, wrote in 2000 in the journal Women and Criminal Justice that any woman who claimed to have chosen prostitution was acting pathologically — 'enjoyment of domination and rape are in her nature.'" The actual argument from "Prostitution: a critical review of the medical and social sciences literature" reads:
"Pornography, for example, is a form of cultural propaganda which reifies the notion that women are prostitutes. One [john] said 'I am a firm believer that all women… are prostitutes at one time or another' (Hite, 1981, page 760). To the extent that any woman is assumed to have freely chosen prostitution, then it follows that enjoyment of domination and rape are in her nature, that is to say, she is a prostitute (Dworkin, 1981)."
The argument being referenced here is Dworkin's, which says that normalizing prostitution or saying that women freely choose to work in the sex industry because they "enjoy it" leads to the conclusion that women, in fact, enjoy being dominated and raped, as this is what we see both in porn and in prostitution.
Likewise, Farley does not argue that she believes women enjoy rape and domination, but that buyers (johns) believe this and that men who buy sex have antiquated, sexist notions about gender and accept male sexual aggression and entitlement as "natural."
For Bazelon to read all that and then to rewrite Farley's words, framing her argument as one that says "any woman who claimed to have chosen prostitution was acting pathologically" and that "enjoyment of domination and rape are in her nature" is deeply disturbing in its overt dishonesty.
While Bazelon centered her piece around the perspectives of those who support a legalized sex industry, she intentionally left out stories of survivors who would have disrupted the chosen narrative for her story. A woman named Sabrinna Valisce who was involved in the sex trade in New Zealand on and off for many years, both before and after decriminalization, told me she spoke with Balezon for the piece, but that her interview was cut. Valisce was a volunteer with the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) until about two years ago and had advocated for full decriminalization until she experienced its results firsthand.
While the Prostitution Reform Act was meant to make the industry safer for women in it and enforce safe sex practices, it's done the opposite, Valisce says. Women were suddenly expected to engage in "passionate" kissing and oral sex without protection (called "NBJ" or "Natural Blow Job") — things that had previously been viewed as "a betrayal of the sisterhood" and internally policed by the prostituted women themselves. "All that has gone by the wayside [due to] high competition and lowered rates," Valisce says. "Girls are also now expected to let men cum as many times as they can within the booked time. It was never that way before. They paid once and received one service." Under decriminalization, Valisce's efforts to institute exiting programs were rejected full out.
Not only that, but a kind of routine violence was normalized by johns. "I'm not talking about punching and beating… [though this still does happen] I'm talking more about the everyday violence of gagging, throttling, spanking, hair pulling, rough handling, and hard pounding." Valisce says there has been a notable rise in men's sense of entitlement and a normalization of abuse since the new law came into effect.
Just weeks after decriminalization was implemented, Valisce says just about every brothel in the country rolled out what they called "all-inclusives." This meant, she told me, "that women couldn't negotiate their own fees or services, nor could they decide what their boundaries were." The reason she had supported decriminalization, Valisce said, was because she wanted "the power in the hands of the people who work in prostitution" and to ensure that women weren't getting arrested or ending up with criminal records. She was told that decriminalization was the only way to go.
Her goals remained the same, but she realized the only way to address the problems she was seeing under decriminalization was through the Nordic model.
Regardless of the real effects of decriminalization and contradictory testimony from survivors, Bazelon parrots Amnesty's claim that legislation in New Zealand and Australia places "greater control into the hands of sex workers to operate independently, self-organize in informal cooperatives and control their own working environments."
When I spoke to her over Skype, Valisce said she had told Bazelon that she had worked alongside trafficked women post-decriminalization. Trafficking was hard to track, as it had been rebranded as "sex worker recruitment," but it still went on. Nonetheless, Bazelon reported that "the New Zealand government has found no evidence that sex workers are being trafficked," and left it at that. Bazelon's desire to paint a rosy picture of decriminalization in New Zealand seems to have led her to expunge Valisce's testimony from the record, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that she was the only person Bazelon interviewed who had worked under decriminalization in New Zealand.
"The things she's said about decriminalization in New Zealand are absolute falsehood," Valisce said.
Everything Valisce told me, she also told Bazelon. Which makes her statements about New Zealand and the benefits of decriminalization all the more shocking, and Bazelon's choice to leave Valisce's testimony out of the story all the more telling.
Meghan Murphy, Feminist Current, full article with links/references here
QotD: "Radical feminism centers female human beings and views everything through the critical lens of how it affects women and girls"
since it evidently bears repeating, yet again-
radical feminism centers female human beings and views everything through the critical lens of how it affects women and girls. it is the polar opposite of my-choice-is-the-right-choice-because-i-made-it, don't-think-too-hard, stop-if-your-feelings-get-hurt, never-examine-anything-too-deeply, this-subject-is-sacred-and-exempt-because-it-makes-me-uncomfortable-to-see-it-analyzed, individualistic choosey-choice liberal "feminism". it will not hold your hand. it will not make exceptions for the men and boys in your life just because you want those exceptions made, just because you want a class-based means of analysis to take into account you and your feelings.
it doesn't feel good to be challenged in that way, to be met with critique that hits close to home, but if you find yourself unable to reconcile with that–or if you ever find yourself on tumblr using lines like "radical feminists are out to get het-partnered women/mothers/etc.", which is so patently ridiculous i have trouble even writing it here as an example–take a second to examine why you're calling yourself a radical feminist in the first place.
it's a real shame we've been robbed of being able to just say "i'm a feminist" and have ourselves understood, because now a whole host of women have felt the need to adopt the term radical feminist just to be differentiated from corporate endorsed, pro-porn liberal feminism and then they find out later on that they aren't actually radical feminists, they are not seeking radical analysis or action and they do not want to see radical change take place because it might challenge their personal choices and up-end their comfort. and we see this play out here, on this awful blue website, with self-proclaimed radicals in outrage when confronted with analysis that does not assure them that everything they are thinking, feeling, wanting, and doing is empowering and feminist and requires no further examination whatsoever.
QotD: "Gender is internal to patriarchy. There is no meaningful continuation of gender outside of patriarchy"
you aren't a marxist leftist if you don't believe in sex oppression and reproductive exploitation of the female. marx was a fuckin terf, engels was a fuckin terf, you loons. you vapid goofs. literally that is the basis of collectivist-communalist political theories, the bourgeois exploitation of female reproductive labour as a way to serve the maintenance of a large proletariat wage slavering workforce
the tie is inextricable and this 'soft queer radical communist' tripe has no actual basis of intelligent, coherent thought behind it
liberalist tarrycock…neocaptialist idiocy
why have the queer cabal co-opted all of the edge with none of the analysis? this is starting to become more and more apparent to me and is disconcerting. it is a real obstacle to liberatory direct action when identity politics take precedence over materialist analysis.
if your identity is dependent upon the capitalist consumption of goods engineered to perpetuate the oppression of the marginalized sex caste (females), you aren't a fuckin marxist leftist. you're a che fanboy with a gun fetish and a fat wallet.
I've seen the argument a few times now that the oppression of women isn't based on reproductive exploitation, and I have to ask, what was it based on then? Do you think it was just a random choice, one gender had to be oppressed, and women just drew the short straw?
Exactly. I have my own theories on the origin of patriarchy but it always comes down to our existence with female reproductive organs and male exploitation thereof.
I meant this post half-jokingly but only in tone. This is a serious blindspot in contemporary leftist politics that is intentionally constructed to prevent female activists from realizing their right to liberation outside of misogynist control.
Genderqueer theory even ruined Marxist thought and praxis. Sigh…is nothing safe from their Jonestown-esque garbage?
19cuts, feminist-s-c-u-m (original post no longer there), and Angrybrownwomxxn.
(found via the Bewilderness)
patriarchy isn't simply gender with a malfunction. it's not an unfortunate accident, it's not gender misapplied. it's not a problem you solve by "teaching respect for all genders". gender is internal to patriarchy. there is no meaningful continuation of gender outside of patriarchy.
and by extension gender is internal to capitalism. gender abolition isnt possible w/o abolishing capitalism, and vice versa. patriarchy, and gender, is a deliberate function of class society.
Evilscum (original post no longer there), and Bitter-dyke.
(found via Sharkpositivity)
Because patriarchy was built on the exploitation of women's assumed reproductive ability if we can't critique reproduction and sex that has reproductive potential then we can't really critique patriarchy at all.
The Guardian is still calling raped children 'workers'
This is so frustrating, because these reports are important (and I will still quote them), but why this insistence on calling sex slavery 'work'? A raped child is not a worker, a raped adult is not a worker, rape is not a labour issue, it is a sex abuse issue.
Criminal gangs are taking advantage of Europe's migration crisis to force more people into [commercial sexual exploitation] and other types of slavery, according to an EU report on human trafficking.
Children have become a preferred target for traffickers, the report warns, amid growing concern over the fate of unaccompanied child refugees who have disappeared from official view since arriving in Europe.
Almost 96,000 unaccompanied children claimed asylum in Europe in 2015, about one-fifth of the total number of child refugees. But at least 10,000 unaccompanied children have dropped off the radar of official agencies since arriving in Europe, the EU police agency reported in January. German authorities reported earlier this year that 4,700 children had been lost to officials, while up to 10 children a week are reported missing in Sweden.
The report from the European commission, which will be published on Thursday, does not attempt to estimate how many may have fallen victim to criminal gangs, but warns that the phenomenon of child trafficking "has been exacerbated by the ongoing migration crisis". Children are at high risk of being doubly victimised, it says, because they are treated as perpetrators of crimes if they are found by the authorities.
"Organised crime groups choose to traffic children as they are easy to recruit and quick to replace, they can also keep under their control child victims relatively cheaply and discreetly," states an EU working document seen by the Guardian. Trafficked children aged between six months and 10 years are bought and sold for sums ranging from €4,000 (£3,000) to €8,000, although amounts of up to €40,000 have been reported in some cases.
EU authorities registered 15,846 victims of human trafficking in 2013-14, including 2,375 children, but the report's authors believe the true number of victims is far higher. More than two-thirds (67%) of people were trafficked into [commercial sexual exploitation]; about one-fifth (21%) were put into forced labour, often as agricultural workers, a form of slavery that disproportionately affected men. The remainder of trafficking victims faced an equally grim catalogue of exploitation, ranging from domestic servitude to forced begging.
Catherine Bearder, a Liberal Democrat MEP, said official statistics on this "vile trade" were just the tip of the iceberg. Victims of trafficking come to official attention when they are arrested or escape, she said. "Very, very few are rescued by the authorities and for me that is shocking." Too often, police forces "see the crime, not the person, they see them as illegal immigrants".
The MEP, who spearheaded an anti-trafficking resolution in the European parliament last month, said EU authorities needed to do more to rescue victims and help them recover.
EU law requires countries to provide victims of trafficking with at least 30 days of recovery, including accommodation, medical treatment and legal advice. The UK offers a 45-day "reflection period", when the person cannot be deported.
The MEP would like to see a longer period for recovery. Highlighting the plight of people sold into in sex slavery she said: "We are much better now at treating people who are raped and give them the protection of the law, but these girls have been raped night after night after night. I think we should be prepared to give them longer support of reflection and more support in rebuilding their lives."
She also urged governments to get to grips with the migration crisis. "When the migrants land on Europe's shores, when they are not properly looked after, they are absolutely ripe victims for the traffickers."
I am emailing the Guardian again, feel free to use as a template.
Dear Editors,
I am writing to you, yet again, to complain about the use of the term 'sex work' in relation to the commercial sexual exploitation of children (in the article "Human traffickers 'using migration crisis' to force more people into slavery" published 19/May/2016).
A raped child is not a 'worker', and child rape is not a 'labour' issue, calling child rape 'sex work' minimises and obfuscates commercialised child sex abuse, and helps legitimise the global sex industry within which such abuse takes place.
There is nothing in the Guardian style guide insisting on calling prostitution or sex slavery 'sex work'. The guide does say that 'child pornography' should be referred to as child abuse images. Therefore a recording of a 'child sex worker' doing 'sex work' would be an image of abuse, but the creation of that abuse image would just be 'work', which is nonsensical.
Earlier this year, Stephen Pritchard, the Observer's readers editor, altered an article on child exploitation ("10,000 refugee children are missing, says Europol", published 30/Jan/2016) to remove the term 'sex work', stating: "This article was amended on 11 February 2016 to remove the term "sex work" relating to children. Children caught up in the sex trade are victims of abuse." I hope you will follow the precedent he has set.
QotD: "If you're into the patriarchy, or coffee table feminism, check it out!"
QotD: "the first step in resisting exploitation is recognizing it"
Exploitation is real and identifiable, and fighting it makes you strong, not weak. Sexual violation is real, and it is intolerable, and fighting it makes you strong, not weak. Woman hating is real, and it's systematized in pornography and in acts of sexual violence against women, and fighting it makes you strong, not weak. And the right and the left both — whether it's Phyllis Schlafly lecturing on how if you had been virtuous you wouldn't have been sexually harassed or the left explaining to you that you should celebrate your sexuality and forget about rape, forget about it, don't have a bad attitude, don't feel like a victim — they both want women to accept the status quo, to live in the status quo, and not to organize the political resistance that I talked about earlier. Because the first step in resisting exploitation is recognizing it, seeing it, and knowing it, and not lying about where it is sitting on you.
Andrea Dworkin, "Woman-Hating Right and Left," from The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism, eds. Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond, 1990
Apart from the reference to Phyllis Schlafly, this could have been written today.
QotD: "women's bodies were on display in London like I've never seen"
Walker has come up against a fair amount of hostility while promoting Dietland. During a live radio interview in Australia, the novelist Will Self, also a guest on the show, went full werewolf on her. "He basically derailed my whole interview," Walker says, with an upset sort of laugh. He didn't just trot out the usual "fat is unhealthy" stuff, but helpfully mansplained that humans are evolutionarily programmed to find fat people ugly. Self was being so abrasive, Walker recalls, that after the interview another guest asked if she was OK.
The run-in wasn't the first time Walker faced overt abuse from a Brit. She lived in the UK for seven years, on and off, and says: "London was the most fat-shaming place I've been in my entire life. It was on a scale like nothing I've ever experienced." In the US, Walker says, fatphobia would manifest itself in subtle ways: she'd find herself excluded from things. In London, however, strangers would say horrible things to her face. "I've lived in New York, Paris, Boston and the western US – and that just doesn't happen."
One reason, Walker suggests, is that "women's bodies were on display in London like I've never seen. In the phonebooths with those pictures of naked women, and on Page 3, and in those tabloid newspapers with half-naked women on the cover. It was like the whole city was a red-light district." She contrasts this to her native US, where "we have fashion magazines with scantily clad women but you don't see those kind of porny images in public as much. I felt part of the reason I got harassed in London was because there were messages everywhere that women's bodies are public property."
Walker channelled her London experience into a chapter of Dietland in which Jennifer forces British tabloids to feature naked men on their covers. "London was being renovated," writes the author, "and the wallpaper covering every surface of the city was no longer decorated with women."
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Miley Cyrus' parents put their split behind them on Friday, January 14 to enjoy a family night out at the movies in California. Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish filed for divorce in October 2010, with both citing irreconcilable differences as they seek to bring their 17-year marriage to an end. They subsequently put their marital home in Toluca Lake, California on the market for just over $7 million.
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Just as it seems I'm finally settling into the winter color season and noticing how good all the pansies and violas are looking, it's time to start planning for spring.
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