I find it kind of awful that some cam models can totally understand that many, many people are bigoted against us, that it’s worth posting about/talking about, but when other marginalized groups of people speak up they’re just ~political aggressors who want to make everything about them and their identity~.
Does our experience with stigma not perfectly reflect that ~other people~ are too obsessed with identity politics, that it always comes back to that for ~other people~, so much that we have to wear our ‘identity politic’ like a shield? How many times do people have to tell us that we don’t matter, that we’re treated this way because of ~who we are~ or because of something we’ve done, that we’re making something out of nothing, that we’re disrespecting ppl with real problems for pointing out people’s blatant whorephobia, for some of us to stop doing that to other people??? If you can understand the frustration of being silenced, having your struggle trivialized, being blatantly lied about and misunderstood to fit an agenda or stereotype, why be so quick and comfortable doing exactly that to others?
I just wish people would remember how often they’ve called for other’s understanding of their stigmatization before denying someone the same thing. I wish that the models who swear by 'don’t mix politics with work’ whenever other marginalized groups of people are the topic of conversation would remember every time they’ve posted to defend us, or would remember that not all cam models are cishet & white who only face whorephobia. Our stigma isn’t any more worthy of attention and consideration than others. If you’ve ever asked for others support with the issues we face, show that it isn’t a one way street.
Like I’m an actual fucking artist and so are a million god damn other people on the planet and the person being recognize for their art by a game company is a fucking child? Nah. So much fuck that.
well if the criteria for recognition is being a fucking child i’d say you still have a chance