{"id":25821,"date":"2015-01-07T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25821"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T15:58:24","slug":"qotd-its-all-about-the-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/qotd-its-all-about-the-men\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: It’s all about the men"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably the most common stereotype of anti-sex worker feminists is that they\u2019re all misandrists, and on the surface that certainly seems true. But a closer examination of the issue reveals a deeper motivation which more closely resembles an obsessive concern with men at the expense of women. Feminists are willing to deny models income in order to deny lads\u2019 mags to men, and would rather see women in the porn industry unemployed rather than know that men can watch porn videos. \u201cSex trafficking\u201d fetishists are willing to undermine the entire edifice of civil liberties for both sexes in order to stop men from having access to commercial sex. Anti-sex worker screeds go on and on about \u201cending men\u2019s demand for sex\u201d, or \u201cteaching men they aren\u2019t entitled to sex\u201d, or \u201clook at the awful things men say about \u2018prostituted women\u2019!\u201d Men this, men that, men the other thing; men, men, Men, MEN, MEN!<\/strong> No matter how vociferously prohibitionists insist that their motive is women\u2019s protection or \u201cempowerment\u201d, sex work prohibition has absolutely nothing to do with women: it\u2019s all about the men.<\/p>\n

Nearly every Western society has a long tradition of viewing sex as something \u201cdirty\u201d and \u201cdemeaning\u201d; the idea of punishment is inextricably bound up with the concept of \u201ccorrection\u201d, so buried in the misandrist rhetoric spouted by prohibitionists is the notion that if Big Nanny just spanks men hard enough and often enough, they won\u2019t have those dirty thoughts any more. The underlying pretext of punishing men for male sexuality, and restricting them from enjoying same, is not to hurt them but rather to \u201chelp\u201d them by making them more like (asexual, idealized) women. To be sure, \u201cfallen\u201d women are to be \u201chelped\u201d as well wherever possible, but when it happens it\u2019s merely a happy byproduct of the campaign to \u201cimprove\u201d men; those women who refuse to be \u201csaved\u201d and to dutifully recite the feminist catechism thereafter will be thrown under the bus without the slightest hesitation.<\/p>\n

Maggie McNeill, “All About the Men”, The Honest Courtesan<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Probably the most common stereotype of anti-sex worker feminists is that they\u2019re all misandrists, and on the surface that certainly seems true. But a closer examination of the issue reveals a deeper motivation which more closely resembles an obsessive concern with men at the expense of women. Feminists are willing to deny models income in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[408,520,255,43],"class_list":["post-25821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-pornography","tag-prostitution","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6It","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25822,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions\/25822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}