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China Shuts Down OnlyFans, Calls It a Threat to National Morals and Social Order
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Define "real work" and have you seen the job market. All the qualifications and experience in the world can't land you an "entry level" job. And if you do "qualify" it's for shit pay and hours that will make you insane.
Yeah it's a real hot take that's for sure, but I agree with the other points. If someone is able to get outside the system and do work via OF or streaming or w/e I say good on them.
It's the impression, there's an impression that sex work is just taking a picture of you naked in the mirror and making money, which is an impression and a misrepresentation of that field.
Yeah you can't be saying "se workers are workers and deserve rights" and 5 words later repeat the incel talking point that "sex workers don't really do anything compared to a 'real' job". You're creating surplus value and being paid for your labor, it's a real job in that sense. Not even under Graeber's definition of a bullshit job is sex work not actual work.
I am saying the impression, the way it's advertised, only fans advertising, the way they advertise it is that it's simple work or no work at all.
here I'll analyze every word I gave
"it's the impression"
impression: an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence.
"an impression that sex work is just taking a picture of you naked in the mirror and making money"
there is an idea based on the advertising done that doing only fans is simply just taking some pictures of yourself and getting paid a lot, which in reality there's far more than that, yet no where did I state it's not a real work.
"which is an impression and a misrepresentation of that field."
I again say that the previous statement is an impression people have, an idea without basis, and a misrepresentation of that field
misrepresentation: the action or offence of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something.
Are you able to understand a concept without getting mad at it?