Thank you for a cathartic piece of work
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:35 pm
Hi,
new fan here. I only started reading the comic about two weeks ago, but have now caught up on all the content from the last 10 years. It really means a lot to me to have an engaging story that is unapologetically pro-feminist and anti-exploitation. It's great to see this in the comic format, too, for a long-time fan of this artform. What in my experience is truly unique about Sinfest is that it holds the very men accountable that usually escape any consequence from their society.
I know it's fictional, but it is still very cathartic to see story arcs like the one about Liberty leaving Sam or Squig meeting the woman he used to masturbate to and being confronted with her vunerability and humanity. I am not a survivor of the sex trade directly, but I am still currently 4 years later hiding from a stalker, who tried to push me to replicate porn with him and got upset when I refused. It means a lot to have a refuge from a world of people insisting porn is harmless and victimizes nobody (and I'm building a feminist support network in real life to really take care of myself, too).
And I won't lie, the johnbie killing is cathartic, too... Every 8 weeks a prostituted woman in my country is murdered or barely survives attempted murder and the killer in most cases is a john or pimp (and those are only the cases gruesome enough to make it into the media, there are more nameless women who die and we don't learn about them) - so I allow myself to occasionally fantasize about destroying these men's cars, telling their wives or decapitating them Fushia/Michonne-style.
Because I'm done being passive and am lucky to have enough free time to afford to I'm active as a prostitution abolitionist and lobbying for the Nordic Model in Germany. My primary work is exposing the misogyny of johns (anyone feel free to take a look, but be warned, it's disturbing: https://dieunsichtbarenmaenner.wordpress.com/menu/) and while I know it's important work, it's very draining and there's lots to despair over. People who say "prostitution is fine/a job/a hobby" never have to provide real arguments or sources, but if I make the tiniest critique of the trade, I need 25 studies to back it up (which usually don't exist, because hardly anyone studies prostitution, because few people care). Still the spread of the Nordic model makes me hopeful for change and seeing powerful three-dimensional women fight back (even when its fiction) gives me strength.
So thank you to the artist, if you're reading this.
Best wishes and solidarity from Germany,
Foxgloves
new fan here. I only started reading the comic about two weeks ago, but have now caught up on all the content from the last 10 years. It really means a lot to me to have an engaging story that is unapologetically pro-feminist and anti-exploitation. It's great to see this in the comic format, too, for a long-time fan of this artform. What in my experience is truly unique about Sinfest is that it holds the very men accountable that usually escape any consequence from their society.
I know it's fictional, but it is still very cathartic to see story arcs like the one about Liberty leaving Sam or Squig meeting the woman he used to masturbate to and being confronted with her vunerability and humanity. I am not a survivor of the sex trade directly, but I am still currently 4 years later hiding from a stalker, who tried to push me to replicate porn with him and got upset when I refused. It means a lot to have a refuge from a world of people insisting porn is harmless and victimizes nobody (and I'm building a feminist support network in real life to really take care of myself, too).
And I won't lie, the johnbie killing is cathartic, too... Every 8 weeks a prostituted woman in my country is murdered or barely survives attempted murder and the killer in most cases is a john or pimp (and those are only the cases gruesome enough to make it into the media, there are more nameless women who die and we don't learn about them) - so I allow myself to occasionally fantasize about destroying these men's cars, telling their wives or decapitating them Fushia/Michonne-style.
Because I'm done being passive and am lucky to have enough free time to afford to I'm active as a prostitution abolitionist and lobbying for the Nordic Model in Germany. My primary work is exposing the misogyny of johns (anyone feel free to take a look, but be warned, it's disturbing: https://dieunsichtbarenmaenner.wordpress.com/menu/) and while I know it's important work, it's very draining and there's lots to despair over. People who say "prostitution is fine/a job/a hobby" never have to provide real arguments or sources, but if I make the tiniest critique of the trade, I need 25 studies to back it up (which usually don't exist, because hardly anyone studies prostitution, because few people care). Still the spread of the Nordic model makes me hopeful for change and seeing powerful three-dimensional women fight back (even when its fiction) gives me strength.
So thank you to the artist, if you're reading this.
Best wishes and solidarity from Germany,
Foxgloves