There are feminists who don't like TERFs like Diana Boston. She has an iffy reputation even in that community on YouTube, but has been seen commenting more in those circles again. Just a warning, the video's kinda long but also goes into some of the other shit she's done in the past and shows more of her comments.
Her article on him.
https://mancheeze.wordpress.com/201...ale-feminist-captainandy-vs-aboriginal-women/
The Mancheeze Feminism Purity Test:
Past comments:
https://plus.google.com/112727434921158900403/posts
I read this article and have run into a lot of problems.
She completely misinterprets Andy's point. How are little girls groomed by pornography? Pornography isn't forced on people in most societies. It isn't a norm for families to, at some point, subject their children to acts of sex to brainwash them. This point is ridiculous. Both men and women find out about sex at varying times. Some find out very young; some find out when they're older; some don't find out at all. Boys who discover porn are just as influenced by its stereotypes as girls are: it's not targeted to make women become subservient. That's lunacy.
Andy mentions the fact that not all prostitutes are women because it's true. I'm not sure, but I'm going to assume that she's suggesting that this grooming process forces women to become subservient, and one of the ways in which this is expressed is prostitution. The very existence of male prostitution belittles this entire line of reasoning because that must mean that this brainwashing process is bullshit or that boys are subjected to the same brainwashing. Either way, her point is fucked.
Selling sex is not inherently wrong. It's wrong once people are forced to do it. It's also not wrong to make shoes in a factory. It's wrong when you're forced to make shoes, aren't allowed breaks, can't work anywhere else and are punished at the drop of a hat. It's the same idea as the prostitution industry.
How is Andy advocating for enslaving women? He's actively against it if you read the picture she posts in the article.
"CaptainAndy thinks if he gives you a couple dollars or a hamburger it’s totally ok to use and abuse you for sex."
When did he say this? First off: it isn't abuse if they choose to work in that industry. He's advocating for taking the industry out of the hands of people who will enslave and force people to have sex. So, you're giving people a 'few' dollars to fuck them because they're allowing you to.
"Doesn’t matter that you’re impoverished, drug addicted, or have mental health issues. It doesn’t matter that women are the majority of the world’s poor and their basic survival needs are what’s putting them in the inferior position. Nope. Once you give women a hamburger so they can eat, you can get sex . Getting paid makes all the harms of being prostituted go away. She loves it. She wants it."
What does this have to do with anything? I'd like to see some statistics on this proposition that most of the world's poor are women. He never said that prostitution is a good industry. He just said that if people choose to become prostitutes, then it shouldn't be a demonized institution. Now, whether they're forced to do it because of a lack of opportunity, that's a completely separate argument. That has very little to do with sexism or even the man or woman paying for the service, and more about classism and other kinds of discrimination.
"It’s kinda the same argument people make about sweatshops. Hey, take the impoverished and give them a dollar a day while they slave away and die. NO PROBLEM!"
This is a strawman. It's not relevant or close to Andy's original point. When did Andy say that giving prostitutes a couple of dollars is the right thing? I think it'd be much more than that. No one is saying that sweatshops underpaying workers is good. In fact, the majority of people, and I believe Andy, would agree that it is wrong to underpay workers.
Hell, Andy even fucking mentions providing prostitutes with insurance, sick leave, medical care, etc. like it's a fucking job. That's because he's trying to say it is.
After that, the article becomes incomprehensible. The two articles she posted in order to prove how victims are groomed by pornography weren't all that relevant to Andy's points in the slightest. And while it is a shame that there is such a thing as the sex trafficking industry, I hardly see how that is Andy's fault or the fault of all men.
EDIT: this stupid fuck
http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...orina/carly-fiorina-70-worlds-poor-are-women/