Oof. See, I'm not sure that would work because the thing is, the left already had that conversation when porpentine put out Hot Allostatic Load (in part) https://thenewinquiry.com/hot-allostatic-load/ and while people nodded sagely to its wisdom around its release, there's already a creeping backlash against porpentine (she's "creepy" or "manipulative" or people are glad they can "finally ignore her") and a lot of it has to do with the fact that she's out there creating "weird" and yeah, "kinky" stuff for herself.
It's not going to be long before the discourse twists to "maybe she was the real abuser all along". Which is a long way of saying, people have been told about how this contributes to creating false positives, but in the end I think fear dominates the landscape of our imagination far too much to actually abandon that model entirely, so the conversation flips around to "you protesting your innocence in the face of accusations must mean actually you have something to hide" (which is not helped, either, by the "progressive" men who HAVE perpetrated assault turning around and saying call-out culture is bad and we need to give people second chances, from a very very different perspective from queer and non-white folks who end up being the most false-flagged and also the most disposable victims in these kind of accusations about rape, abuse and pedophilia because they also have the least social capital to weather the changing tides of the discourse).
I'm not even sure that the people who are crowing, at present, about this are also paying lip service to "oh but it harms sex-workers BUT FUCK THOSE NASTY FOLKS OVER THERE", which seems to me that they don't understand how these issues are interrelated in an intimate way and that supporting sex-workers means, by definition, creating an open sex positive forum for discussion and not just some vague amorphous notion of Sex Worker Rights.
This isn't very positive, sorry. But it's just that I'm unconvinced that drawing these parallels work as long as people are dominated by a) fear (especially fear of "contamination") and b) social structures of power that encourage this kind of social capital and power acquisition.
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Date: 2018-12-28 04:53 am (UTC)It's not going to be long before the discourse twists to "maybe she was the real abuser all along". Which is a long way of saying, people have been told about how this contributes to creating false positives, but in the end I think fear dominates the landscape of our imagination far too much to actually abandon that model entirely, so the conversation flips around to "you protesting your innocence in the face of accusations must mean actually you have something to hide" (which is not helped, either, by the "progressive" men who HAVE perpetrated assault turning around and saying call-out culture is bad and we need to give people second chances, from a very very different perspective from queer and non-white folks who end up being the most false-flagged and also the most disposable victims in these kind of accusations about rape, abuse and pedophilia because they also have the least social capital to weather the changing tides of the discourse).
I'm not even sure that the people who are crowing, at present, about this are also paying lip service to "oh but it harms sex-workers BUT FUCK THOSE NASTY FOLKS OVER THERE", which seems to me that they don't understand how these issues are interrelated in an intimate way and that supporting sex-workers means, by definition, creating an open sex positive forum for discussion and not just some vague amorphous notion of Sex Worker Rights.
This isn't very positive, sorry. But it's just that I'm unconvinced that drawing these parallels work as long as people are dominated by a) fear (especially fear of "contamination") and b) social structures of power that encourage this kind of social capital and power acquisition.