https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist?wprov=sfla1

Collective Shout. Thanks to itch.io for naming them. TIL

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My favourite fact is she thinks decriminalising sex work will lead to more sex trafficing.

Such wisdom and vision, we should let these people have power over payment processors

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Stuff like this is the strongest argument for a decentralized payment option. Hopefully some day crypto will not be so much a tool of monetary speculation and we can use it for that without having to have the same experience as the guy who bought a pizza with Bitcoin.

That’s what I always wanted “DeFi” to be, a systematic replacement for the legions of evil old banks who have happily collaborated with the worst institutions of the last several centuries.

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Damn, Rupert Murdoch and now this asshole. Australia has a monopoly on ruining media, lol.

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You can thank Advance Australia for that. Huge think tank that likely bank rolls all this nonsense and more.

Also, down with Collective Shout! As someone who suffered child abuse, I condemn these cookers crusading under the guise of child protection. FFS, they were patting themselves on the back for stopping sales of plastic heads on Temu.

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If it’s any consolation, I’m sure the American versions (Focus on the family, alliance defending freedom) are right there with them.

Props to them for figuring out a real way of imposing colonialism on impoverished countries and former colonies alike. Now their ideas and laws are spreading worldwide, like someone with diseases shitting into the local water supply. Ugh.

I have a terrible feeling that the people they duped won’t figure this out for 30 years or more, with some trappings lasting for 50+ years.

Reist reviewed the controversial Netflix film Cuties (2020) for both her ABC Religion & Ethics column[20] and for the Christian newspaper Eternity.[21] She described the film as “a social critique on what happens when we allow misogynistic, violent, exhibitionist internet culture to ravage girls – training them to wield their immature bodies as currency.”[21] Reist related the film to the activism of Collective Shout: “In the past 10 years at Collective Shout, we have met many girls this age, who have felt the same pressures. Some have taken inappropriate pics and shared them, sexualising themselves either out of a sense of obligation, or because they have believed the lie that self-objectification is empowering or liberating.”[21] However, regarding certain scenes in the film, she wrote that “the complexity here is that in trying to make a serious ethical point about girls and sexuality, the girls may have been used unwittingly — but still inappropriately — to a noble end. The scene could have been filmed differently[.]”[20]

Yeah. As a society we seriously need to get on the same page about morality, but for my money it can’t come from a religious group tinkering with the beating heart of commerce. They may have points to make but it’s fruit of the poisoned tree.

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Wow, good to learn about the conservative christian, anti-abortion, “radical feminist”.

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Here’s a different comment to avoid the other stupid one. Feminist support equal rights and freedom.

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Well They ARE feminists.

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👍

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It’s damn clear that you’re gullible. So when the mask innevitably slips that feminists were always right-wing fascists, you scapegoat someone else.

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Wow wow, hang on, I think I misunderstood your comment.

I agree with you. Fuck feminists. Someone just posted a picture calling for the death of all men due to catcalling and it was getting upvoted.

FUCK THAT.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49718552

This bullshit needs to stop.

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Are you trolling me ?

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The post I sent is real, isn’t it? I despise misandrists.

I even removed my original reply to you because I misinterpreted your comment.

I would appreciate if you edited yours too. I get it. I agree.

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