We fought to free the nipple… and all we got was a better kind of thirst trap.Submitted 1 day ago by PeshawarToToronto@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Ex-activist who actually marched for Gotopless drops the receipts: the revolution didn’t get crushed. It got rebranded, monetized, and turned into premium OnlyFans content with feminist hashtags as the price tag.
Five minutes. Zero copium. Read it before the grift erases the receipts.
There is a word for when movements become basically fashion trends or goods/services to be sold.
“commodification”
Is it cool to wear a Che Guevara tshirt?
A tshirt with RBG?
What about wearing a keffiyeh?
Commodification is the process of transforming inalienable, free, or gifted things (objects, services, ideas, nature, personal information, people, or animals) into commodities, or objects for sale.[1][2][3][4][5] It has a connotation of losing an inherent quality or social relationship when something is integrated by a capitalist marketplace.[5][6] Concepts that have been argued as being commodified include broad items such as the body,[7] intimacy,[8] public goods,[9] animals[10] and holidays.[11]
This is also something that happens often with alternative sub culture.
Goth and punk clothing is sold at high end fashion stores and the original sub culture and ideas that these groups promoted has largely been lost. (Punk to emo pipeline)
Though legit old school punk artist still push their ideas often and haven’t “sold out” for commercial success.
They keep it real. But corps still try to capitalize on their appeal and degrade it’s message by making it a trend.
The process described in OP’s text is what I consider as recuperation, the conversion of a radical idea to a commercially viable one by de-radicalising and twisting its foundational ideas, which then enables commodification. A radical idea needs softening first before it can be turned into a commodity (like your example of Che tshirts). But your point is still valid.
Ah yeah that’s a better term for OPs example.
And what about this is a shitpost?
The whole thing is AI.
It’s literal shit.
Yeah this was a good and interesting article. Not sure what it’s doing here. Not mad I got the chance to read it, but…definitely not a shitpost!
this was a good and interesting article.
I thoroughly disagree with this. It’s arguments are all over the place and never substantiated. It is AI, though, so ah~
And come to realize, it’s the same person who did the same thing a about 1 & 1/2 week ago. It’s like the mods of this community don’t exist, or at least don’t have a baseline for shitposts…
Look, I’m not here to shame sex work, but lets be real. The entire business model for these women is based on their bodies being as sexualized as possible. They aren’t trying to dismantle the system of objectification; they’re trying to become CEO of it. For them, #FreeTheNipple isn’t a protest, it’s an ad. It’s a free sample to lure customers back to their subscription page. They’re using the language of social justice to funnel political sympathy into their bank accounts. It’s brilliant, in a completely cynical way. They didn’t free the nipple, they just put a new price tag on it and called it liberation.
this feels like it was written by LLM
Actually and literally fucking preemptively excusing and justifying what they say. SWERF shit
It’s the argument style, and the “it’s not X, it’s Y” conclusion. Very common in LLM speak. Doesn’t mean it is, though
Because it was. The whole article structure smells like a LLM
Yeah, look at the headings, terribly obvious IMO. Theres also just something weird with the article content wise. Like, why are we blaming the women again? Because they do sex work? And that is not a fault of the system? Idk, this smells really bad…
Truth be told i stopped reading after just glancing the headings but it feels real bad.
It’s glaringly obvious
sixtoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
What a dog shit dog whistle for SWERFs. GFTO of here with this fucking nonsense AI slop. I’m a transsexual face to face sex worker and my girls who make content need money. Fuck this SWERF liar.