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by _bfhp
2865 days ago
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In the UK there is certainly a degree of magnitude more diversity to the voices who engage in the discourse and are listened to. But can we name even one 'radfem' with similar mainstream platforms and access to the sort enjoyed by Owen Jones or Laurie Penny? I would think it would make sense to have named at least one if the situation is that of a "very much dominated" area. As a rough marker of popularity, Owen Jones and Laurie Penny enjoy followers in the 100,000s (Jones over 700K). Sarah Ditum and Glosswitch each fail to break 20k. Helen Lewis, who hasn't written on sex work on the Internet more than a few times and certainly not strongly for abolition or the Nordic model, has barely 100k followers. Unfortunately I don't see it as a pejorative that the grassroots movements we hear and know about tend to be protective of porn and prostitution as institutions. Small independent groups all supposedly working for the same better world will always end up in a survival-of-the-fittest contest, making concessions at the most controversial nodes to win favor. Basically every man in the Anglosphere who counts himself as progressive or leftist engages with the sex industry in some way, while basically none will care about anyone's abortion. Directly thus, we have the political movements we see today. |
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