Obviously proper soup is better, but I’d never heard of this option.

Hope this is the right community for this content.

On this day in 1857, New York City garment workers protested against inhumane working conditions, low wages, and for equal rights for women, an event that is commemorated annually as International Women's Day. Their protest was attacked and broken up by police, but the labor action led to the creation of the first women's labor union.

On the same day in 1908, 15,000 women marched in NYC for shorter work hours, better pay, voting rights, and an end to child labor. The slogan "Bread and Roses" emerged from the protest, with bread symbolizing economic security and roses for better living standards.

International Women's Day in 1917 was also the date of the Russian February Revolution, in which workers celebrating International Women's Day joined protests and riots against food rationing, with more than 50,000 people in the streets. The protests grew quickly and developed revolutionary fervor, eventually overthrowing the monarchy.

International Women's Day (then International Working Women's Day) was introduced during the 1910 International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, Denmark. Clara Zetkin, a German socialist, suggested a holiday honoring the strike of garment workers in the U.S. The proposal received unanimous approval from the 100 women from 17 countries.

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AF3IRM are not comrades

Sex Worker Rights and Decolonial Struggle: An open letter to The Red Nation https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0rOyRBWpaOsOySkKe2afYScZVarys4nKLf_By_JQ32WK6vg/viewform

The Af3irm Agenda https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904

A Timeline of AF3IRM’s Carceral Discourse on Sex Work https://purplerose0666.medium.com/a-timeline-of-af3irms-carceral-discourse-on-sex-work-390aa4b69923

“Transphobia Will Not Be Tolerated”: AF3IRM’s Hidden Tolerance for Transmisogyny https://purplerose0666.medium.com/transphobia-will-not-be-tolerated-af3irms-hidden-tolerance-for-transmisogyny-7104b46dd9ca

And a good comment breaking down these SWERFs podcast eps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/revleftradio/comments/nbtaln/rev_left_radio_doubles_down_on_supporting_terf/gy69dta

On class traitors:

Dear BootLicker, Esperanza Fonseca https://medium.com/@babecolate/dear-bootlicker-esperanza-fonseca-3db88a6a199e

"Cancelled Podcast actually provides a platform to very very Materialist and Women-Protecting comrades, such as….Andrea Heinz, a TERF who works directly with cops." https://lesbianchemicalplant.tumblr.com/post/651549593480396800/a-recent-episode-of-rev-left-radio-featured

"I don’t know how else to explain to people who are supposedly already Marxists that the bourgeois police cannot be used to 'protect proletarian women.'” https://lesbianchemicalplant.tumblr.com/post/651375218176163840/lesbianchemicalplant-lesbianchemicalplant-citing

Comrade Brigid, the same one that spread this reactionary anti-sex worker information to a bunch of communist podcasts, came out as a mega TERF after denying it for years: https://twitter.com/wittlett/status/1552733752576679945?t=KUaP4Tk0xNKC4dBY4DI41w&s=19

As for Khara Jabola-Carolus, another guest on these shows, she's a founder of AF3IRM, which works with bourgeois cops who trap sex workers and incarcerate them and just make their lives harder in general. Here's a paper she worked on with Dominique Roe-Sepowitz https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10911359.2021.1875097?journalCode=whum20 https://search.asu.edu/profile/276287

Dominique works very closely with community groups including the Phoenix Police Department, the Phoenix Prosecutor's Office and Catholic Charities DIGNITY programs.

[...] Community partnerships for developing new knowledge about sex trafficking include the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Phoenix Police Department, and the Tucson Police Departments.

This article talks about how Dominique Roe-Sepowitz set up police stings of sex workers

https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904

Here's more on Project Rose https://www.nswp.org/es/news/project-rose-ends-monica-jones-detained-australia

You can find more articles if you google "project rose sex work"

Like this https://www.vice.com/en/article/av4eyb/in-arizona-project-rose-is-arresting-sex-workers-to-save-them

Here's Khara Jabola-Carolus bragging about her research being used to open a new sex trafficking treatment facility in Hawai'i, ran by Ho‘ola Na Pua a non-profit that regularly collaborates with law enforcement https://twitter.com/PurpleRose0666/status/1412895416937447430?t=kVlZmSkNjUPi30Nu-l9NIw&s=19

More on this https://twitter.com/angel_isab3lle/status/1538113631585374208?t=s_8hziQ4uXbVbtYEV413xw&s=19

i think about this a lot. sex workers are on the ground, we don’t have time to craft the propaganda that af3irm and the antis get funneled with $ to create bc we have our backs against the wall & aren’t given support. this is why i beg leftists to look past the flowery language and look at what they are doing af3irm and these anti trafficking orgs are doing nothing but giving police more $ and power, sex workers are on the ground helping our kin with limited funds. academics and theorists on this app can sit up and write thread upon thread on why johns are the worst people on this world when you’re in the industry (it’s actually the cops & ice) and we have to play defense every single time, it’s tiring. but i just want to remind y’all that these anti groups are just propaganda machines, they are not producing any results for the people on the ground, despite all the $ and attention they receive. they are succeeding however in getting ppl who call themselves communists to believe. to believe that spreading this propaganda is doing anything but making the bed for more criminalization and money for cops like what has happened in texas and they are trying to pass in hawaii.

https://twitter.com/angel_isab3lle/status/1511403782348845058?t=WPX6SuJPi0dQ_ANeb6X7gA&s=19

And then unironically say that sexism isn't a thing anymore?

A common incel argument I've seen pop up lately is how men are "scammed out of their money" in divorce.

Misogyny never changes, does it? "WoMans ToOk mUh MonEys" has to be the oldest one in the book.

Genius patriarchal society planning there, make it more difficult for women to support themselves by not allowing them into the workforce or even vote for thousands of years and then cry about it when woman might actually need that money that you probably owe her anyway for all that fucking thankless labour she does around the house.

And let's be real, chances are in 2022 she works a job for her own money anyway so that's her assets and money as well that you're splitting.

How dare women want their own money that they're entitled to! The gall!

Please, men of Hexbear. Restore my faith in the dude gender because this shit gets me down in the dumps :yea:

Basic summary: Conservative women alienated from labor like to write blogs about "obeying men" in their free time. Cottagecore is kinda problematic (but also controversial due to some of its audience being queer), and has a lot of connections to some really disparate subcultures. There's some tenuous link between conservative tradwife culture and western lolita subcultures. Someone in the comments of the video notes that religious tradwife stuff feels eerily similar to 24/7 kink dynamics.

The message I got out of it is that women who embrace patriarchy and get into "traditionalism" seem to be attempting to reject the modern form of capitalism where all adults in a household have the value of their labor extracted (feelsbadman), but they're doing so in the most counterintuitive way possible.

Normally I don't interact with reddit but I saw this and found it interesting. This post is dripping with the alienation women feel from patriarchal norms and it feels like women in general have a bit of radical frustration brewing.

Easier that way. When men are together and no women are around you probably wouldn't believe the things that come out of the mouthes of your brother, father, lover, son, etc. I work with all women and am one of 5 guys, which 0 are on my shift with me. Anytime politics or religion or anything comes up like it does all day every day I just shut my mouth and agree with whatever they say or pretend to be aloof and like they are teaching me something. Much easier that way because being factually correct and being "right" are two totally different things and sorry ladies but we all know which one of those you strive to be.

For the pussy

To get laid

I DID IT ALL FOR THE NOOKIE

Sometimes it's just about getting laid

I keep reading "I will hide my support of parties that support various forms of misogyny until I get the thing I want from the people affected by that misogyny" and Jesus fuck you could consider maybe, just fucking maybe, if you have to be dishonest to get what you want maybe you're on the wrong damn side. Somehow being a lying selfish asshole has become virtue signaling to other men which is exactly how societies fall apart or go to civil war. It's not because you have a dick. It's because you're an asshole that you have to lie to get pussy.

Men don't, Republicans do.

You know why.

Because their opinions if expressed would make a vagina dry up faster than the Sahara Desert.

To get laid.

We're willing to listen to your delusional bs, inflated sense of self-importance and narcissism for the brief access to your clam.

There’s only one reason and it’s pretty obvious.

This sounds exclusive to people with conservative political views. In which case they are aware women won't like their actual opinions, so they decieve someone into sleeping with them.

Because they're trying to have sex, not debate how ridiculous the Democratic party has become.

To get laid. I won't tell women around I think immigrants can GTFO because women are sensitive and that's irrilevant for my goal.

Because our views on politics aren't that important, but some people think they are. Just because I think something today doesn't mean I'm willing to die for it or even that I'll have the same idea tomorrow.

We do it to get laid.

Because the competition is lying as well. Gotta keep up.

Cause they trying to get that punani

Is this a real question?? Like really??

Because he knows no woman would be willing to.sleep with him if they know how he really feels

I don't lie about anything. I am also not very successful with pursuing women. Anecdotal evidence but take it for what you will