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Wednesday March 8 is International Women's Day + STRIKE
I only just heard about it recently, but this Wednesday is International Women Day, and there is an international Women's Strike/"Day Without a Woman" planned for that day. http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3...-woman-march-8
Some of the actions that you can take to participate include: not doing paid labor; not doing domestic work (chores, childcare if possible); not doing emotional labor (smiling and being nice to people when you don't feel like it, engaging with others emotionally in ways that benefit them but not you); not buying anything, or at least buying from local vendors and minority/woman owned businesses; wear red in solidarity.
I realize that it might be a hard decision on whether to participate. After all, it can be profitable to get online if the number of models is low. Also, going on strike is inherently easier for workers who are able to simply take paid leave for the day, which is not something we can do.
On the other hand, we represent one of the industries that is most heavily dominated by women, and is also one of the most underappreciated. We are blessed with the luxury of setting our own schedules and deciding which days we want to take off. Plus, many of us have had fantasies about "what would SM do if the models went on strike?"
I don't want to imply that there is a right or wrong course of action, because what's right for one person can be wrong for another, and that's ok. I just wanted you all to be aware of this as you plan your week.
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this is interesting, I'm in my vanilla job that day but I think I'll probably still attend as I genuinely enjoy my job and my employers are great and all that - will definitely find some red clothing tho to show solidarity
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I am going to cam but will be adding #InternationalWomensDay as a watermark to my cam feeds and tweeting about it, and I'll definitely wear red :D
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SM made a contest for it lol. Good thing since I'll be working.
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^^ Sure enough, lol! Since they announced the contest after I posted this thread, I'm going to pretend that they saw my comment about what would happen if the SM models went on strike, and that caused the contest. I doubt that's true, but it's a flattering thought, lol!
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8 March is also a public holiday in most of Eastern Europe, so they had to make a contest if any EE studio models were going to show up at all.
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I'd consider it...but I work for women, so it wouldn't be much of a statement. If (as I was in my early 20's) I were still being relegated to the back room working for peanuts while my bosses took all the credit, I would definitely be participating.
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SM is hilarious. How are they honoring us as women again with a contest? How about giving us 10% extra or something. That makes more sense.
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I find the contest insulting. So in the fight for equality, against rape, fair pay.
Find that asking performers to work 48 hours is cruel. Is anyone there working 48 hours to fix the glitches on SM?
Guys telling girls to shove their biggest dildo in the ass on International day sends the wrong message to me.
Since with Trump & the GOP trying to end Planned Parenthood.
GOP wants to consider all birth control an abortion & take it away..
GOP passing laws in different states to help rapist & wife beaters seems hostile to me.
Russia repealed a law that made it illegal to beat your wife or kids. All in the name that it harmed marriages by putting men in jail for beating their wives.
When Trump wants to separate women & their kids at the border to discourage them coming to America for a better life.
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Women NOT working on March 8th is to prove to the world that it can't function without us. Being whatever men want sexually on cam begging for tips to win a contest on SM doesn't sit well for me at all.
Work if you want,but I find somethings more important to fight for than the right to drill my holes on a day meant for standing up for other women so we can improve all our lives.
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48 hour contest are cruel. WHO at SM works 48 hours straight to make the site more money? If employees there were asked to work 48 hours the Labor Board would have an issue with it. 48 hours in order to win means spending lots of hours camming & begging men to help you win. Pushing your limits physically & mentally in an unhealthy way.
Which doesn't really feel like a positive thing for International Woman's Day. Sounds like come be a sex slave for SM, cause we are afraid women standing up for other women & not working will hurt our bottom line. So fuck women, money is more important
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Tell me where SM has held a contest for affiliates to work 48 hours for a contest?
A day without women is NOT about men, but if you want to tell all women in the world to fuck off AururaJade cause money is more important to you, then that is up to you.
Only way to win those contest is for performers to put in some long ass unrealistic hours. What other contract or job requires that?
I personally think ethics are more important than money, apparently you don't.
Trump affects the whole world.. Good luck working in Europe when Putin attacks & America pulls out of NATO.
Good luck fighting a war without our help.
Politics do matter. GOP wants to shut all porn down, which includes porn sites. SM is based out of America, so is CB & MFC. Most of these companies bank out of Cypress, when those banks go down. Wilbur Ross & a Russian owns those banks out of Cypress.
i do give a fuck about my customers, but then I've had lot of them for 18 years.
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I love my job and my guys, but something about doing a contest on this day just doesnt sit well with me. Like others said, if they want to show their appreciation then give us a higher % for one day only, our regs would LOVE it just as much as we do, the site would end up making mega bank AND making us feel happy.
I dont cam on wednesdays any more now anyway so wont be online but will be working, my boss is awesome ;)
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Sally Says
I love my job and my guys, but something about doing a contest on this day just doesnt sit well with me. Like others said, if they want to show their appreciation then give us a higher % for one day only, our regs would LOVE it just as much as we do, the site would end up making mega bank AND making us feel happy.
I dont cam on wednesdays any more now anyway so wont be online but will be working, my boss is awesome ;)
that sounds like a much better idea like
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You can debate without being rude or making sweeping generalizations about Americans, Europeans or people in the camming community. Please be mindful of where you are.
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Originally Posted by
Magical_Hoohah
Some of the actions that you can take to participate include: not doing paid labor; not doing domestic work (chores, childcare if possible); not doing emotional labor (smiling and being nice to people when you don't feel like it, engaging with others emotionally in ways that benefit them but not you); not buying anything, or at least buying from local vendors and minority/woman owned businesses; wear red in solidarity.
Sounds pretty much how I conduct my life anyway ;D
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There is some irony here in taking part in a contest for IWD where men can potentially ask me to shove a baseball bat in my ass for their visual enjoyment and then think they are clever by promising to pay for only after they have seen it. :D
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It's just another day to me I will be on cam - no interests in that stupid contest though I just log on for my usual hours and earn whatever I earn then log off. The highest I've ever placed was 267 and that's without even trying. I will never do deals or even mention contests in my room or social media.
As for it being 'Women's Day' so what? Dad's go to work on Father's Day and I always had to work on my birthday so what does a 'label' on the day have to do with whether we log on or not? It certainly isn't political in my eyes.
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its obvious these contests make them more money than the prizes they give because they keep doing them....but yeah i feel like its kinda an inappropriate day for a contest lol. like happy womens day!! unity!!! jk lets see which women can make us the most
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Originally Posted by
Sam38g
48 hour contest are cruel. WHO at SM works 48 hours straight to make the site more money? If employees there were asked to work 48 hours the Labor Board would have an issue with it. 48 hours in order to win means spending lots of hours camming & begging men to help you win. Pushing your limits physically & mentally in an unhealthy way.
Which doesn't really feel like a positive thing for International Woman's Day. Sounds like come be a sex slave for SM, cause we are afraid women standing up for other women & not working will hurt our bottom line. So fuck women, money is more important
Yeah.....to echo what other girls have said, as a camgirl on SM I can't relate to this at all. Who is forcing us to work for 48 hours in a row? Much less even take part in a contest? I never pay any attention to them and just work whenever I feel like, whether there's a contest going on or not. Trying or wanting to place is optional.
If you feel like a sex slave for SM you probably shouldn't be working there because it sounds like it's making you feel very degraded and unhappy. And if you're sick of "drilling your holes" maybe you should change the format of your shows.
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It's tacky as fuck for SM to be holding a contest for Women's Day framing it like ANYTHING they do is in the interest of models and not their bottom line. But I care about my bottom line first and foremost as well so I'll be working like it's any other day.
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That's why I am not a feminist.
I love a man and men in general. I pay attention only to those who respect and apreciate women as an equal and part of their lives.
Girls, you are too harsh on this, seriously.
In my country (a mysogin country in Eastern Europe), men are doing their best to impress women on 8th of March. They are buying us flowers, gifts, chocolate. The younger generation starts to apreciate women much more and be more open minded.
Even my custies, on cam, every year on 8th of March, sent me tips (bigger or smaller), as a gift for woman's day.
I never accepted to be humiliated or do something against my will, on cam or in real life. And nobody ever had a problem with it.
There were guys asking me to do gag, fist or put big dildos. I always denied and they moved on without a problem.
We have a ban button, we have the choice to not log, we are not under rigurous conditions (eg: work less than x hours per month on the site and you have your accound closed) and even in real life, there are women who can do men jobs easily and nobody has a problem with that (women in the army, women in the goverment, women in medicine), we can vote, we can drive, we can go to school, we are free to marry who we want, we are free to divorce, we are free to wear what we want, we can take self-defense classes, etc.
I will work as normal. I don't have to go on a strike, because there are members who respect the camgirls and I won't pay attention to some assholes who find the women being a lower level than their great being. LOL.
The streamate contest is 0 to me, I will just do my hours and that's it.
Yes, there are assholes and mysogin people everywhere. But why we pay them attention, instead of paying attention to those nice men?
There will always be assholes and mysogins who think are greater than women. But if this world was full of them, now the women wouldn't even dare to talk on internet about a strike, lol :)))))
We can't make this world 100% asshole free. Yes, we complain about customers here and rant about random stuff. It's normal.
But let's not transform a day, that is meant to celebrate the woman, into something ugly.
Look what happens in the other side of the world, where women are still treated as same as a worm. In 2017. They can't drive, they can't go to school, they can't marry who they want, their husbands treat them as shit because of the culture, they can't dress how they want, they can't divorce, they are being found guilty if they get raped, etc.
Aprecciate what you have, ladies and stop being so harsh. There are women who are giving their lives to have what we have. And in the past history, there were women who did fight to obtain the rights we have nowadays.
And yes, there are issues on this world, with goverments and presidents being against women, but we live in the internet days. They can't get away with the murder so easy, as they were before.
Today I had a blood test and I have needles phobia. The guy who was doing the blood test was very nice with me and helped me calm down and did promise me that I won't feel pain at all. At he was right. I have only a very little mark and all the test took no more than 2 minutes and I feel only very little pain.
Later, In traffic there was an asshole who was angry at me because I wasn't driving faster (on 1st lane, because he couldn't switch on 2nd lane, because... morron) and wished me to die in pain.
I didn't give a fuck because hours earlier there was a man who tried to not hurt me at all.
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Y'all do realize that because a woman identifies as feminist it doesn't mean that they hate men? That's not what feminism is about. This is a common misconception that I feel needs to be addressed. I'm trying really hard here not to single people out but the irony is too much. Platforms like this wouldn't exist if it weren't for feminism.
If you stop raging and stop paying attention to the system you will lose those liberties. And further more I need more than the ability to come and go as I please. We are in the sex industry and right now there is a major problem in regards to these fucking contracts. Criticizing one another based upon their views on feminism is trivial. Its a distraction like everything else.
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Not tryna be overly reductive but doesn't this just kind of boil down to perspective? It's kind of really super fucking awesome that in an admittedly patriarchal society we can monetize our pussies safely and legally. Not that we shouldn't reach for a bigger cut or better treatment, but still. Happy Womens day to all my fellow cam BBs whether you're choosing to work or not!!
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I think if you're not going to work, that's great but you should definetly get out and join a march or protest of some sort. Really drive the point home.