Controversy over FemFreq using term “prostituted women”?
Posted: June 16, 2014 | Author: elevatorgate | Filed under: Prostituted Women - FemFreq |4 CommentsThe new @femfreq video on women as background decoration in games is outstanding: https://t.co/QLWSEaIoo9 A parade of shameful examples.
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) June 16, 2014
And @femfreq says "prostituted women" but calls male SW's "gigolos". Using the slur prostitute to apply only to women. #whorephobia
— Rap Game Rahab, doe (@_peech) June 16, 2014
.@teeterpyg @femfreq @adragonbee the insulting and dehumanizing term prostituted women is only used by those who deny our humanity
— everyday whorephobia (@whorephobia) June 16, 2014
"Prostituted women" bc no sex workers ever choose to do it right???? Just further dehumanising, which she claims to be against
— lauren greyjoy (@_sandorclegane) June 16, 2014
Not crazy about @femfreq's use of the phrase "prostituted women" in her latest vid- feel that "female sex workers" may have been better
— princess ru (@doctordala) June 16, 2014
I'm wincing every time she calls sex workers 'prostituted women'.
— SJW illuminati whore (@ThatSabineGirl) June 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/UnseenPerfidy/status/478678657649487873
@anwyn Exactly – I don't think it's policing to point out how language functions, either. "Prostituted women" is a very pointed phrase.
— Bailey (@the_author_) June 16, 2014
@LoriAdorable @femfreq Ugh. https://t.co/mVeDD5Y5WN 5:40 enter "prostituted women" So repugnant. So expected.
— Sailor Moon Says (@letskillallmen) June 16, 2014
as actively endangering an entire group of ppl with your actions and language. Spending 30 minutes repeating "prostituted women" over and+
— Rap Game Rahab, doe (@_peech) June 16, 2014
@TrixieAnarchy But yeah, she refers to them constantly as "prostituted women". Characters are depicted as objects to use but would like to
— Kayleigh Anne (@Ceilidhann) June 16, 2014
normally I <3 @femfreq, but the whole "prostituted women"/"women bought and sold" thing is really not good in the new video :(
— Seta (@setalyas) June 16, 2014
But…well, no. The language is just so much implication. Why would you go for "prostituted women" over "sex workers" in the first place?
— Kim Is Just, Right? (@KimxxxJustice) June 16, 2014
Oh man I usually like @femfreq "Tropes" series but this latest one has problems. "Prostituted women?" … Oi.
— i want to hex you up (@kimhorne) June 16, 2014
@TheGeekAgendaUK @Badassperger @femfreq Also CW: Anita is all SWERFy, objectifies sex workers (THE IRONY), calls us 'prostituted women'. 😥
— SJW illuminati whore (@ThatSabineGirl) June 16, 2014
why are people acting like anita sarkeesian is a bad person now because she used the phrase "prostituted women"
— bee (@togebii) June 16, 2014
The latest femfreq video needs to replace "prostituted women" w/ "sex workers" or she will upset a lot of women in the profession they chose
— Cammi M. (@Cammiluna) June 17, 2014
Yeah, @femfreq, as a gamer myself, you fucked up with this "prostituted women" bullshit & your general discussion of sex workers.
— ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@bonneanneeray) June 17, 2014
@tauriqmoosa Use of whorephobic language such as "prostituted women" and reducing us to agencyless victims. Also claims sw encourages >
— everyday whorephobia (@whorephobia) June 17, 2014
Thing is, there is NO WAY in hell that ff is just being innocently ignorant in her usage of 'prostituted women' in that vid.
— Feminist Whore ♥ (@FemWho) June 17, 2014
Oh and the vid I'm currently complaining about had a co-writer so like, did they both agree that ''prostituted women'" was the way to go?
— Feminist Whore ♥ (@FemWho) June 17, 2014
#PatriarchyIs seeing no problem in using "selling their body", "prostituted women" & other objectifying, misogynistic, agency denying terms.
— Alicia (@Artemissian) June 17, 2014
Damn. Feminist Frequency speaks of "buying and using prostituted women for sex". I expected better. https://t.co/Zf4t2KB9Ec
— Nine (@supernowoczesna) June 17, 2014
@femfreq Why "prostituted women" instead of sex workers? Is that an unexamined bias? Try reading @melissagira 's book Playing the Whore
— Theo Adler (@SexWorkHistory) June 17, 2014
PLEASE, @femfreq, stop saying 'prostituted women'. We're sex workers. If you humanise us, your points re:VAW would be even harder hitting.
— SJW illuminati whore (@ThatSabineGirl) June 17, 2014
@pzmyers You might want to include some commentary on the EXTREME anti-sex work rhetoric in that video. "Prostituted women", etc.
— Natalie Reed (@nataliereed84) June 17, 2014
Gail Dines?
.@whorephobia Evidence connecting @femfreq & @gaildines beyond just that the former follows the latter on here. http://t.co/ec4LFysMgp
— Azura Rose (@HellcatAzura) June 17, 2014
Only good thing that @femfreq's new episode has done is piss off sex workers and let me see tons of cute people in their underwear. Legit.
— Sherrod M (@HEELSherrod) June 17, 2014
oh :-/ MT @HellcatAzura: Keep in mind that @femfreq is a fan of @GailDines, who is a SWERF and TERF who teaches and is consulted by gov.
— Liss (evil version) (@evilfelicity) June 16, 2014
Porn Phobia?
http://storify.com/MartinRobbins/conversation-with-helloween4545-and-hellcatazura
A response to the new @femfreq vid – which is eye-opening, but overlooks issues of sex workers' rights in video games http://t.co/UOFmfvfKuT
— Stephen Wragg (@decemberembers) June 17, 2014
I really liked that @femfreq video. Then she said "prostituted woman". O_O I want to believe it was an honest mistake
— Former Lolita (@SugarKovalczyk) June 17, 2014
I see that @femfreq has finally leaped all in into the antiporn/anti-sexwork pool with her "objectification in video games" vid.
— BPPA_AnthonyJK (@RGC_BPPA) June 17, 2014
The latest @femfreq uses language characteristic of sex-work exclusionary radical feminism, conflating sex work with "selling bodies" >
— Fuck NO Video Games (@EffNOVideoGames) June 16, 2014
> and describing "prostituted women", denying the agency of female sex workers while giving male characters autonomy as "gigolos".
— Fuck NO Video Games (@EffNOVideoGames) June 16, 2014
Under the bus?
http://storify.com/MartinRobbins/conversation-with-whorephobia-inawarminister-tech
Racist?
@femfreq Assuming that non-white and poor sex workers are by definition victims of sexual violence is also "racist". http://t.co/z5JODtXuUj
— sonja dolinsek (@sonjdol) June 17, 2014
“seriously disappointing” – seriously in ALLCAPS
SWERF?
Oh god oh god please no, Sarkeesian is associated/inspired by Gail Dines, chief SWERF please dont let it be so
— Rude as HECK (@rudeasHECK) June 17, 2014
@whorephobia @TrixieAnarchy As one does when one comes from a dehumanizing SWERF pov. Total blindspot. @femfreq
— Miss Park (@blk_bk) June 16, 2014
I think Femfreq has been dining on a little too much SWERF and TERF lately if you know what I mean
— The Poly Pagan (@Falcc) June 16, 2014
WhorePhobia appeals to allies to write article
Anita being sexist towards women?!
she obviously is using "Prostituted women" to try to victimize all female sex workers, like saying, if you are a female sex worker cont-
— Kyubey (@princeychan) June 18, 2014
You're automatically a helpless little victim, someone else put you there, it wasn't your choice, but not saying "prostituted men" cont-
— Kyubey (@princeychan) June 18, 2014
Because men have a choice, I'm guessing, since feminists like her love painting any and all women to be victims whenever possible, idk
— Kyubey (@princeychan) June 18, 2014
Nice bit of sexism in the latest feminist frequency where-in it's "prostituted women" but "male sex workers."
— Shabadoo McMickles (@JoeyJoeJoe_Jr) June 19, 2014
Matronising?
@rdubwiley The term "prostituted women" implies that sex workers don't willingly chose the work they do, and they see it as patronising.
— TheMessianicManic (@idiolekt) June 18, 2014
Hyperbolic?
When you use the phrase "prostituted women," you deny the rights, agency, and humanity of the people you think you're defending
— tribade (@Krytella) June 18, 2014
2014.06.19/8
https://twitter.com/bmagnanti/status/479529694120116224
I normally agree with 70-80%(ish) of what @femfreq says but admittedly calling sex workers "prostituted women" is a pretty big faux par.
— Kelly Jean (@ai_honey) June 19, 2014
@tealleee She used terms like "prostituted women" and framed sex workers as objects instead of consenting individuals selling sex.
— Lyn (@augustgirl515) June 19, 2014
Has Anita answered the people asking her why she used the phrase "prostituted women" yet?
— Ami Angelwings (@ami_angelwings) June 19, 2014
@videodante someone of her calibre & her stature shouldn't be fucking up on such basic things like not using "prostituted women" as a term
— satan (@crapyacht) June 18, 2014
In other words, Martha Nussbaum is obviously Anita's role model. To the surprise of no one. Fucking SWERF and TERFs #TropesVsWomen
— randomfox (@randomfox) June 19, 2014
feminism will eat itself.
Yes it definitely will when you find every thing offensive it tends that you will turn on every one in your movement.
bwaaa hah haa! this is awesome! are they going to ask for their money back? suckers! & also “prostituted women” what a weird phrase, i’ve never heard it before today. who says that? lol
SWERFs!