The Biggest Thing I Dont Understand About Sw3rfs Is A Lot Of Them Are Pro Choice For The Same Reason

the biggest thing i don’t understand about sw3rfs is a lot of them are pro choice for the same reason i am pro sex work.

Banning abortion doesn’t mean abortions will stop, it means abortions will become unsafe and someone in need of an abortion will be forced to put themselves in danger.

Sex workers deserve the right to their job. They deserve the right to have safe encounters, std testing of their clients, and protection from sexual assault. Sex work is real work and legalizing it will put more protections into place.

Banning sex work will not stop it from happening, it just makes it unsafe for the worker.

He is the half of me, I will never know.

your feminism is nonexistent if it is exclusionary

Me trying to explain to SWERFs why anti-sex-work rhetoric is harmful to sex workers and feeds into conservative rhetoric about sexuality.

Thing that will cut down on the number of none consentaul sex workers.

Socialize gender afferming care.

Making kicking your queer child out of the house a felony.

Paying reparations to the black and/or indigenous communities.

Making disability easier to get on and using the amount you pay out each month.

Making work places and schools more accessible.

Labor unions.

Seizing the means of production.

Doing something about child abuse

What won't reduce the number of none consentaul sex worker.

Demonizing Sex Work.

Making SW illegal.

Demonizing none predatory consumers of sex work.

Siding with Cristo fascist over anything.

Alicent reminds me of my mother, religion-obsessed who became more religion-obsessed the older she got, who had a preference for my older sister who she parentified, and who would hit me and yell at me everytime I did something she didn't like or didn't go how she wanted, using the "I sacrificed so much for you" to manipulate me

I think people in this fandom need to realize that the contention people in this fandom have towards certain characters like Alicent and Ser Criston is precisely because they are so realistic.  Ser Criston is that nice guy who turns into a absolute nightmare once he is rejected.  And Alicent is that ultra conservative and religious tradfem who feels pressured to get married and have children early in life, missing out on the things her old friends are doing as single, independent women and growing bitter and resentful and passive aggressive towards others because of this.  Most people have encountered people like this and have had negative experiences with people like this so it’s completely understandable that people may have more issues with characters that are more grounded in our every day reality than other characters like Daemon who aren’t grounded in the reality of most people, because Daemon is pretty much outside of our purview of experiences.  So when we see him, or other characters that are more black than grey like Joffrey Baratheon, and Ramsay, and Euron doing bad things, it doesn’t hit us so hard.  Not to mention in the books, Alicent is a horrible stepmother to Rhaenyra, and how many of us have had horrible step-parents or have had parents who have dated horrible people?  

So it’s completely understandable for fans who have encountered people like this, who may not be able to just let go of those things, which a lot of neutrals are acting so self-righteous about currently in fandom because they “let go of their biases”.  And it’s like why should I let go of my dislike of a character who blatantly reminds me of the horrible people I’ve encountered, when these characters are freaking fictional?  Like it doesn’t matter, and people in this fandom shouldn’t be shamed for not doing this, because it’s not that big of a deal.  No one needs to like these characters or any character they don’t want to, and we shouldn’t have to explain why we dislike them, or be shamed for disliking them.  It’s honestly really ridiculous, and it’s something really rampant in this fandom, especially with the way these people talk as if “liking all the characters without bias” makes you morally superior, because guess what?  It doesn’t.  These are fictional characters.  And frankly all neutrals are lying to themselves thinking they aren’t biased towards or against certain characters because it’s always blatant in the things they write or the things they say.

And having said that, there is absolutely nothing wrong with siding with one team or another in HOTD, because 1) it absolutely does not affect the current story of ASOIAF 2) It’s fun, and 3) It’s FICTIONAL!  I can be Team Black all I want and I shouldn’t be made to feel bad because of the “I’m above it all” people.  Like I’m perfectly aware that these are gray characters and that both teams do bad things at specific times, but I DON’T CARE because it’s fun and it’s fictional.  So please give it a rest people.