rad-feminism reblogged
for 2015 let us all shut the fuck up about people’s eyebrows like get over it, it’s just hair
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Is it not strange to you how body hair is acceptable ONLY in specific areas of your body?? Why is that decision something that we let other people control??
Women get so much shit on the daily from men, advertisements, basically ALL forms of media that their body hair is unnatural and disgusting. they don’t need more of that coming from other women/ so called feminists. why is HAIR something that repulses you so much?? It’s not even that it’s not your body, or that it’s unhygienic. It’s only gross if you literally don’t shower often and clean yourself. Removing hair is not part of making yourself clean- it is part of making yourself socially acceptable, and part of conforming to conventional beauty standards. This especially applies to global majority women who are not white and don’t have the luxury of blonde hair, or already being seen as feminine and desirable simply bc of their skin colour.
rad-feminism reblogged
Why would “vaginal tightening” and “labia reduction” be something that female people would want to do of their own volition?
Vaginal “looseness” actually does not exist. It is part and parcel of female shaming, plain and simple. As usual, our own bodies, doing what they do either through childbirth or, GASP, aging, are actions that displease men and must be erased. Even if the thing that men complain of doesn’t exist and may actually be HIS PROBLEM.
I just can’t with the labia reduction surgery. I just can’t. It just kills me that something that is so gorgeously individual, so perfectly unique, is being tampered with because of male hubris. It is infuriating.
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On top of it, referring to it as a “rose garden” which goes along with the message women are given since birth that we should smell like roses or mangos or other sweet smelling things. vaginas smell like vaginas but we are told we should smell like roses.
and this also makes me sick to my stomach because “trim your private rose garden” feels very similar to the campaigns that say we should shave our pubes off completely. The bush is referred to as a wild garden and in need of trimming. but this is more extreme. it is coopting language that tells us that our natural pubic hair is distasteful and extending that language to talking about even the shape of whats underneath the pubic hair and how that needs to be “trimmed” as well. (such a sickeningly gentle word for what is essentially cutting off chunks of our genitals for “aesthetic” purposes.)
the fact that any woman has been made to feel bad about her labia makes my heart hurt, the fact that this industry is growing makes my whole soul hurt. Plastic surgery is a field largely dominated by men (only 4% of all the board-certified plastic surgeons in the United States are women, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) and the vast majority of surgeons who perform labiaplasties are plastic surgeons. And doctors in the U.S. report a 44 per cent increase (5,070 people from 3,521) from 2013 to 2012. This makes labiaplasty the most increased aesthetic surgery of 2013, tied with buttock implantation.
this crap is thanks to porn and its infantilization of women. i might add too that it’s incredibly racist because black and latina women tend to have larger labia and they’re being shamed for it. vaginoplastia
home-wrecker-holmes
Oh no! How dare women get plastic surgery
What an incredible inability to think critically. Did you even read any of the commentary?
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I’m all for loving your body and stuff but please do not say “thin privilege” is a thing because it isn’t. ~privilege~ is based on something you cannot change pls don’t be that person
spockdoesntconcur
Since weight is highly-correlated with both ethnicity and socio-economic status, I think…
girlisariot
I’d like to add my input:
-The body image that is highly regarded today and made up in the minds of wealthy men isn’t possible. No one can achieve this image.
-Being thin doesn’t indicate class necessarily, but it can. What IS VERY WRONG is insinuating that being overweight is disgusting. It injects so much fear into women everywhere. We are all affected by the pressure to be “perfect”. Being overweight is in no way disgusting. Someone being overweight shouldn’t offend these classist shits.
-If you’re thin and going around saying fat people can help it, fat people should lose weight, you can afford healthy food, etc., then that is merely the result of class privilege not of thin privilege and they should feel ashamed of themselves and called out for it.
-Those who have suffered under some kind of eating disorder know that thin isn’t a privilege. At one point, we wanted to be thin so terribly that we risked our lives for it. There wasn’t a stopping point. Anorexia and bulimia doesn’t cease after the woman decides that she’s at her preferred weight. She feels as if she isn’t thin enough regardless of what weight she is at. Even if you don’t have anorexia/bulimia, I know every woman has felt at one point in her life she wasn’t thin enough.
-I also know every woman has probably have had someone make comments about her weight. I get them all the time being underweight and it hurts. I don’t like it when I hear my sister and friends speak horribly about their bodies. I cringe and feel anger towards the system.
-I don’t like it when I hear women try to justify their insecurities by making other women feel terrible about their bodies. It’s internalized misogyny. I would like to castrate men who make women feel as if their bodies are trash.
-Body image issues affect all of women. So no one really has a privilege. We’re all meant to feel like shit under corporate rule.