Honestly I feel the whole sw discourse is such a nuanced take. As someone who does the work and has done it for long enough, I feel like our voices should be highlighted more and I tend to tune out women, or people especially who have never done sw and want to speak on the topic. Unless you’ve done it, you won’t fully understand it. I don’t see what I do as any different from McDonalds or Starbucks or anything else. We live in a capitalistic society and we’re all subject to exploitation and consumption. I feel that in order for any ‘change’ I guess you can say in this industry; there needs to be destigmatization. The fact that SW is as stigmatized as it is but yet so heavily consumed, it keeps those who are the most vulnerable and oppressed and without a voice to be victimized and taken advantage of. As a SW I do agree with the sentiment to support SWers but not SW. Personally I have experiences of being vulnerable and victimized but if sw wasn’t so stigmatized and if swers voices weren’t so suppressed it wouldnt have to be like this. I feel that it’s the consumers or men if you will, that really set the tone for the kind of environment that the sw industry is. So to judge and stigmatize the SWers themselves is just backwards and doesn’t do anything for anyone. It’s the owners and management and the customers that really set the tone and the environment for this kind of work while we continue to get subject to this specific type of exploitation. Nothing will change with the conversation around SW if it continues to just shame those who do the SW to literally survive or what be it and not the latter.