Why does Belle Knox consider herself a feminist?

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12. That's the problem with not actually reading people's arguments

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If you actually are interested in how Knox sees the issue, the only sensible approach is to read her writings.

Regarding the issue more broadly:
Some sex workers are adult women who choose to do the work, often through economic privation but they nonetheless choose it. However, not everyone believes, as one member insisted, that 9-14 yr olds "choose a profession" in prostitution willingly. Additionally, some of us actually think slavery (people these days like to call it human trafficking) is a bad thing. Shocking, I know. Some describe young girls making themselves available to adult men as a sign of their own sexual empowerment. I happen to disagree. Unfashionable as it may be, I know that it is in fact rape when the girl or boy is underage. I'm one of these awful feminists that believes rape is a crime and should be treated as such, and that children and teens are not put on this earth to make themselves available to predators.

If you actually read what feminists write, it helps. Of course if you agree all "sex," regardless of consent or age, must be provided to men on demand, and that doing so is somehow a woman's choice, YMMV.

Then of course there is the fact many don't survive work in the sex industry--that mortality is high, through suicide, murder, and even serial killers. This post provides an example. http://www.democraticunderground.com/125548981
Now I understand it's unpopular to consider the lives of people in the sex industry (or those living amongst it)and one must pretend that none of this occurs because men who use their services don't like to be reminded of minor details like human rights. Reality, however, is very different from theory. But some of the middle- and upper-middle class prefer theory to reality. They refuse to consider the actual circumstances of the sex industry because it's a buzz kill, and really the crucial point is for men to have what they want, when they want, with no regard for the consequences.

What could ever be wrong with feminists to care about human lives? It is so out of vogue, so un-Ayn Rand.

Then there are opinions of leftists like these, Chris Hedges:

And Noam Chomsky

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Some people care about inequality, class exploitation, and harmful working conditions. Others do not. Others invoke "choice" because they have unqualified faith in the virtue of the free market and care little about the consequences. Not everyone shares the same values. Not everyone cares about inequality and human rights. Some elevate the interests of capital and patriarchy above concerns about inequality and human rights. People disagree. Capitalism depends on the mantra of choice, whether for sex workers, fast food workers, migrant labor, or labor in unsafe manufacturing facilities, in order to justify their accumulation of capital. Many buy into those notions and repeat the ideas they have been taught from early age. Some claim they care about workers rights but somehow exclude sex workers from their concerns. I suspect they also exclude every other industry that they benefit from in some way. Regardless, those arguments serve to justify inequality and neoliberal capitalism more broadly.