Also, people obviously can go to church, if they want. They just can’t all go at the same time. Also, ISTR there being something in the bible about showy displays of worship, and worshipping in private.
One the the neat things about sex work being legal is that folks in the industry qualified for the government wage subsidy, so there was no financial imperative to continue working in order to, you know, eat. Or make rent.
Which, naturally, helped with overall compliance and reducing the risk of transmission during lockdown.
Well, not exactly - the term was coined in a completely different context in '93 and that first community, run by the queer woman who founded the term, was apparently a supportive, heavily female, left-leaning environment. That didn’t change until the coiner gave up control of that community and it began to be appropriated by right-wing anti-feminists in the 2000s, who quickly turned the term into the exclusively right-wing, racist, misogynist cultural identifier we now know. That right-wing anti-feminist terror movement already existed, as a more nebulous, disorganized thing, well before that, but they coalesced around the label as a semi-organized movement.
So there was a (feminist, inclusive, left-wing) “incel” community for quite a while, but yeah, the term relative to a movement was always about that right-wing misogynist horrorshow.
These comments only really make sense to me (the misogyny bit aside, I got nuthin’ for that) in the context of someone who self-identifies as an Incel, using the definition is the post (people who had no clue how to meet and talk to the opposite sex), and is feeling like it’s been appropriated by some really bad people.
If this is the case (and this isn’t just trolling), then i would suggest abandoning that label. It’s toxic.
I think others have addressed the misogyny thing pretty well.
It’s also hard for the socially awkward. I mean being a kid involved a lot of awkwardness but some are naturally more so, I know I was despite having a group of friends. I didn’t date and I never really connected with people in the way most did, I still have a lot of trouble making friends.
Yup. I first learned about the history of this when cory started talking about it and it surprised me - a safe space for those who couldn’t find a partner eventually being taken over by irredeemable misogynist arseholes because the toxic ones were the only ones to remain once those who eventually found love left the support group. Like the ‘red pill’ being appropriated by the far right and MRA misogynist arseholes! There’s a depressing pattern here…
Though I am surprised sex work is allowed right now. Brothels here in Melbourne are closed until we get to phase 3 re-opening and the “massage” places down the street from here are definitely closed.
