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Yesterday someone called #Lowborn & #39;poverty porn& #39; - while it& #39;s always shitty to have people not like your work it goes with the territory & I just know some folk won& #39;t. However I take particular issue with the term...a thread...
It& #39;s deeply derogatory to conflate the word porn with a woman& #39;s lived experience or that of experiencing poverty. It& #39;s not dirty or shameful or something sordid to be consumed for guilty, voyeuristic pleasure. It& #39;s my actual life.
To be a man and use & #39;poverty porn& #39; as a snappy critique about a book by a woman in which she does the deeply painful, exposing but necessary of speaking openly about teen sexual assaults, rape & abortion just reinforces the concept of victim shaming.
No one would *ever* use the term porn (in the same negative context) about middle or upper class people writing about their own experience was writing any form of porn.
I stupidly got it into with this person & afterwards has my first (hour long) panic attack in 11 months & then was awake all night. Words fucking matter & whatever you think of my writing I don& #39;t deserve that - especially not 7 months pregnant.
Critique all all you like - I& #39;ve had a decade & am used to it. But don& #39;t use language that is demeaning & deeply offensive because you can& #39;t be arsed finding the right ones
Adding that I don& #39;t think the consumption or production of actual porn is shameful etc (if ethical) but I think we all know this term used like this is meant to be derogatory.
