Censoring Women in the Sex Trade who Dissent is the Goal of Male Supremacists & Their Current Technologies

Vixen's Story of Female Censorship

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What happened to Vixen enrages me so deeply that I feel tears well up. Another woman, another feminist censored by a platform that is supposedly welcoming to dissent. Vixen is a powerful online organizer, and that is why someone targeted her work and reported her. I spend countless hours reporting sexism and racism online. Yet none of my reports end with any males getting reprimanded. I’ve seen some of the most vile sexist and racist things said here on Substack. I report it and I never here one fucking thing back. Sadly, shit’s so bad in other online spaces, that I came to Substack thinking it would be a respite from female censorship. But Vixen’s story is a painful reminder that there is no safer place for women and girls online (yet). Male supremacy pushes us out of in-person and online spaces to silence women and girls. Vixen is a woman trying to escape commercialized sexual exploitation. She’s trying to find ways to build sustainable income streams to do that. Now someone is attacking her livelihood, and it’s NOT by chance. As soon as a woman tries to escape male supremacy, men try to cut her at the knees so she can’t get free.

Please help me to spread this story as a way of taking back our female power on Substack and so we can support

Vixen

in trying to correct the damage done when she was banned. Do you know how hard it is to get free subscribers, let alone paid ones? I’m deeply grateful to every woman who has subscribed to my work, and I look forward to the day when I gain my first paid subscriber. My dream is to have enough paid subscribers that this can become a sustainable income stream. All that labor that Vixen had to do to build her platform was robbed from her, simply because someone insinuated she’s “spamming/phishing?” Then when she fought back she wasn’t given any real answers on what exactly constituted this immeadiate ban…just a bullshit form-email response essentially saying “oopsie.” But males on here can say what they like, get reported, and never see an impact on their livelihood?

Source Image: “Defamed and BANNED on Substack”, Vixen

Whoever reported her was aware enough to know how to frame the supposed “problem” to get her banned. I do believe it was strategic on their part to use “spamming/phishing” as the reported issue. The way these tech reporting systems are set up, they give hierarchy to certain types of complaints. When you report hate speech, it’s clear this falls to the bottom of the hierarchy because there’s never any accountability and consequences. But if you report something like “spamming/phishing”, well, in money-speak, those are “real problems” because they can affect a platform’s bottom line. Why? Because it is seen as an attack on their IT security. I work in technology, and I’ll tell you cyber-security is at the top of the pyramid when it comes to protecting your money in the business world. But many platforms are fully aware “hate speech” earns them money. This is partly why a complaint ticket about sexism or racism never leads to any consequences. This is male supremacy at work in online spaces like Substack.

The fascinating part of the current realities of women in the sex trade is that technology use is ever-increasing. And these women are gaining technology skills when they use platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, OnlyFans, etc. Male culture likes to ignore these women’s tech-savvy, downgrade it, erase it, since male supremacy wants to write women out of tech spaces. But I want you to contemplate all the knowledge and intelligence of women in these spaces. Women like Vixen use that knowledge of technology to create and to fight back against censorship. A “cam girl” has to have a deep understanding of how to use the tools of technology in order to make ends meet. But because male supremacy objectifies her and says only her body is what matters in these spaces, everyone erases the skills she has to gain in order to “sell her body” online in the first place. One day we’ll find ways to separate women’s tech skills from the male supremacists looking to exploit them. One day we’ll transfer all this amazing knowledge into nourishing income streams for the female sex-class. That’s exactly what Vixen is doing through her work as a feminist.

Sister, I’m enraged that this happened to you. I’m inspired by your power and example of how to fight back. I’m envisioning media platforms that will give women and girls the right to freedom of expression without the fear of censorship. I’m envisioning a world that listens to the dissent of victims-survivors of commercialized sexual exploitation over the propaganda of male supremacists. We’ll get there the more we stand up and fight back; the more women invest in women. We’ll get there when we’re able to build female-only spaces that allow women and girls to dissent.