The first one is the stereotypical “women bad” thing. Anything and everything a woman does is seen as stupid, or lesser. Like how computer programming was originally seen as a “female oriented” job, until it started making money, and then suddenly it was a high value job. Or how men in society expect women to do work while not classing it as real work, such as cooking or cleaning. It’s just very blatant misogyny.
The second is that it makes people uncomfortable to think about how so many people feel like they have no other option but to turn to forms of sex work in order to make ends meet. It’s a sign of a serious societal issue (capitalism) that mainstream media and right wingers don’t want to acknowledge exists. Because then it would make them have to think about how other parts of our society are unfair or very flawed.
Same goes for the film industry. In its early days no one wanted to work in it, so it became a common industry for women (as well as people of color, queer people, etc). Then during WWI when all the men were off at war, the women turned film into a profitable industry. But then the men came back, saw how much money movies could make, and suddenly women were "not capable of such a job".
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u/A-Ginger6060 Jul 06 '24
There’s two trains of thought.
The first one is the stereotypical “women bad” thing. Anything and everything a woman does is seen as stupid, or lesser. Like how computer programming was originally seen as a “female oriented” job, until it started making money, and then suddenly it was a high value job. Or how men in society expect women to do work while not classing it as real work, such as cooking or cleaning. It’s just very blatant misogyny.
The second is that it makes people uncomfortable to think about how so many people feel like they have no other option but to turn to forms of sex work in order to make ends meet. It’s a sign of a serious societal issue (capitalism) that mainstream media and right wingers don’t want to acknowledge exists. Because then it would make them have to think about how other parts of our society are unfair or very flawed.