Why does Belle Knox consider herself a feminist?

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183. There's a few flaws in what you posted...

Since you know prostitution is a local issue there is no reason to invoke entirely irrelevant examples of Australia.

So, let me get this straight. For some reason you think it's only yr 'local issue' that should be discussed here at DU? That mine is 'entirely irrelevent'? I'm calling bullshit on that. I suspect the reason you don't want to talk about how it is here in the territory I live in is because it doesn't gel with yr narrative. I've got every bit as much right to talk about how prostitution is legal here and how sex workers have lots of protection that they don't have in the US as you've got to talk about whatever it is you think is relevant to a discussion.

I am sure if I Googled for a second I could find references to all kinds of child prostitution and human trafficking along with that legal prostitution in Australia.

Go google then. The results should be interesting.

You will of course ignore that just as you ignore the experiences of people like me and ism because our lives are inconsequential compared to the middle- and upper-middle class men whose rights to sex on demand to buy and sell human beings trump our wishes, and those of children in our communities, to be free from predation, rape, and, murder.

There you go inventing something that I most definitely don't think. Here's a reality check for you. I don't know what yrs or someone elses experiences are because I don't know what they are. But instead you decide to launch into a totally offensive and disgusting slur that I think pedophiles and sex traffickers are more worthy than you. You should apologise for that...

Why should I get offended? Because I and not you or Steve define who I am.

One point. I haven't defined you as anything. As for you getting offended? After reading what I just did where you said I think yr life is inconsequential compared to pedophiles and human traffickers, I care about as much as you care about offending me in yr initial post where you made a false claim about feminists who support legalised prostitution and porn. After all, if you'd cared about offending me, you wouldn't have made it even worse by writing what you did in the paragraph above...

That you so glibly dismiss the decades of community activism on the part of the African American community of Rhondo to dislodge a strip club and finally some years later get a library is not surprising.

I don't care if they're African/American, Amish, Orthodox Jews, or a collective of vegan Morrissey worshippers. All that time invested in what for what reason? To get a library? What an anti-climax. Libraries are sooo pre-internet. I would have gone for the gold and tried for an IKEA. Their Swedish meatballs are to-die-for!

What you think happens in Australia has no relevance whatsoever to my city.

Correction. It's what I KNOW about what happens where I live. There's no what I *think* about it. Have you read the legislation I've posted more than a few times here at DU? It applies to the territory I live in, not NSW or Victoria, where I don't know how it works. I'm happy to post it again if you'll read it and go through it line by line and tell me what yr objections to it is...

Since prostitution is local, what I think about the issue and what my community does has no impact on your life, and you have no reason to so glibly dismiss our experiences to support your classist notions.

Again, get used to the fact that this is a discussion forum. Yr not the only person here and you don't get to dictate what's relevant and what's not, especially when you've been talking away about prostitution in other countries. And 'glibly dismiss' translates as 'someone dares to disagree with you.' And I don't have classist notions, and have no idea why yr coming up with this stuff...

As for the history between us, I have already confronted you on those issues. I will not search for links of discussions that you yourself engaged in. I made myself quite clear at the time.

Translation: there's not one single link handy to that stuff you've accused me of. I haven't ever been nasty or offensive to you...

Outside of this one post, nothing I say relates to you, so you have no cause to become offended.

So now yr telling me what I should or shouldn't be offended by? I do get offended when I see someone trying to paint a completely incorrect and offensive picture of why other people, feminists amongst them, support legal porn and prostitution.

Y'know, there's one thing I don't get here. When it comes to universal health-care DUers are always pointing to examples in countries like my own as how it could be in the US. Yet when it comes to legalised porn and prostitution, suddenly examples somewhere where there's a welfare safety net, safe working conditions for sex workers, no pimps, no street prostitutes, and no stigma attached to being a sex worker, then it becomes all irrelevant for some reason. What I'm really curious about is what people who spend so much time talking about how terrible prostitution is and how much more terrible it is if it's legal, see as a solution? It's illegal in many parts of the US, so do they want the status quo to continue? I'd hope not, coz I've seen enough episodes of Cops to see how horrific it is. Or do they want it decriminalised? Or made legal with strict regulations?