I think the point of studies like this is to show that violence against women is overwhelmingly perpetrated by people they know. People love to characterize the epidemic of physical and sexual violence against women as though it’s because of random horrible men targeting women in dark alleys. This directly shows that this is not the case. It’s overwhelmingly men that women know directly. The vast majority is committed by intimate partners and close male family members in women’s homes.

Women who speak out against this violence are very frequently met with shame and further violence. Even in cases where the man is obviously in the wrong. I would know as I and several of my friends have had this experience ourselves. Society is only sympathic to women who have experienced violence in mass media. When it comes to women in their hometowns, in their local communities, they often face outright hostility. The problem of misogyny is far more widespread than people are willing to acknowledge.

Yeah. It will probably suck for Canada too, but hopefully our government does the right thing and strengthens our ties with other markets in Europe, South America, and Asia. Really sucks how the past few years the Canadian government has torpedoed a lot of good international relations that would be really beneficial to have going into the Trump administration.

What a pointlessly cruel thing to do to children.

I’ve always believed that sex work in all its forms should be subject to regulation. Amateur pornography was very much touted as the response to corruption and sexual exploitation in the porn industry itself. Ignoring, of course, that women are sexually exploited all the time, most often by people they know personally. The pornography industry was and continues to be a gigantic mechanism by which women suffer sexual exploitation to produce content for which they are unfairly compensated.

Platforms like OnlyFans are difficult to regulate by design. They offload the process of sexual exploitation (which they absolutely know exists and knowingly benefit from) onto private citizens because it allows them to procure many of the same kinds of content as traditional pornography platforms while maintaining a distance from it’s production.

There’s a lot of ways it could be better. Making creators paid employees would be a start, which would subject their employment to the same regulations applying to any other kind of employment. Requiring creators to routinely meet in person with company representatives and have conversations with some kind of financial auditor would help as well. A lot of exploitation, like mentioned in the post, takes the form of financial exploitation. Which is easier to understand and help with if there’s kind of clarity on where money is going.

This would turn OnlyFans into a completely different company. I believe similar things should be done for doordash drivers. The whole concept of a “gig company” is built on worker exploitation. They won’t legally hire their workers because it allows them to function outside the bounds of labor regulation. In the case of OnlyFans it’s just. You know. Partly the sexual abuse of women that they are profiting off of.

Conversion therapy is a crime against humanity. This is what the American evangelical right wants to do with us.