mr tumblr staff my nipples are male presenting it’s fine

i cant get over the stipulation that you can post female boobs if it’s a political protest. hey tumblr have you considered that the point of those political protests is that women’s bodies aren’t inherently more obscene than men’s. like my body is more than just a site for politics or motherhood or art. 

Why ‘female-presenting nipples’ matter

When I was 10, my mom made me wear a bra and it felt like a punishment for being different.

When I was 10, I took the bra off when changing for gymnastics and accidentally dropped it in the school hallway. A teacher picked it up and said, “Oh, this must belong to you” and handed it back to me in front of everyone. I quit gymnastics.

When I was 11, I thought maybe the boobs would be okay so long as they didn’t get any bigger than would fit in my hand, so I kept measuring it, but they did.

When I was 12, I started wearing two or three sports bras to smush them down, until one day a classmate said, “Are you wearing two bras?!” while laughing.

When I was 13, a boy told me he wanted to squeeze my boobs “until they popped.”

When I was 14, I got cast in a play as an older character and a classmate told me I got the role because I had boobs.

When I was 17, my mom told me to return a swimsuit because it would be too distracting for my boyfriend’s father.

When I was 21, I got properly fitted for a bra and everyone felt the need to tell me how much better my boobs looked.

When I was 26, I got pregnant and my immediate fear was that my boobs would get bigger.

When I was 28, I got shamed for trying to feed my screaming baby in public without a cover.

When I was 28, people asked me “why are you bothering to use a breastfeeding cover?”

When I was 30, people gave me weird looks that I wasn’t yelling at my kid for putting their hand on my boob.

When I was 31, I avoided going to the beach or pool because I didn’t want to have to deal with boobs in a swimsuit.

When I was 32, I got asked, again, “why don’t you get a breast reduction?”

When I was 33, I watched a 5yo girl get shamed for running around in sweltering heat without a shirt on and had to reprimand a bunch of tween boys who thought it was okay to shame her for doing something they do all the time.

When I was 34, my kid kept patting my breast and saying “Mommy’s squishy breast!!” They will never see me express any shame about tits, because I want them to have a different mindset than I had. Yes, boobs are nice! They’re squishy! They’re fun! That’s the end of that.

I’m 35 and no longer give a fuck. I don’t care anymore. As a teenager my tits were covered in stretch marks. They’ve been engorged with milk. My nipple changed shape with pregnancy. Give it another couple decades and my breasts will probably be all wrinkly. It’s sexual when I’m using it sexually. I don’t fucking care, and I won’t be ashamed anymore. 

Every time a policy or cultural hangup treats people with breasts differently, it fucks us over. 

Tumblr’s new policy makes an active choice to participate in this culture of shame. By classifying “female-presenting nipples” as explicit material, Tumblr has taken a stance that any chest or breast that differs from a male default is worthy of shame and unavoidably sexual. The idea that breasts are shameful and unavoidably sexual is exactly what fucked me up for so much of my life.

Stop shaming people for having bodies. 

I’ve been seething in rage thinking of this all day and @aibidil put into words what was reeling in my mind.

Our bodies are not porn.

hey @staff

Look, I dont know a lot about saints and Catholicism, but I know St. Agatha is always depicted with her breasts on a plate, and that’s sure something

Just a few more. This is a big trend. 

Things I learned from the comments

I didn’t know she existed and now I think she’s a pretty rad woman. I would hesitate calling her a protofeminist as some often do with amazing women in history but she is pretty cool. Also she’s still very relevant today as women are still treated the way she was.

other things i learned: damn historic artists drew a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops???

"Why do you hate the shape of breasts in plate armor so much?"

Since people often ask “Alright, well this is fantasy!  Why can’t we have boob shapes in plate armor?!“  I decided to make a post about it.  My frustration has nothing to do with historical inaccuracy and I’m all for imagination and freedom– but I’d like to (very quickly) illustrate this for you:

I purposely over-emphasized the shape of the two spheres in the armor so you can really think about this. 

Look at the shape of the blue cups and the green line, think about the form of that on some beautiful ornate plate armor.  A female warrior is charging into battle.  In the midst of this, she trips!  Or is pushed over, or takes a blow to the chest!  So long as the force is on the front of her torso it really doesn’t matter for the conclusion:

She feels a sharp pain in her chest and hears the cracking of bone!  Oh no, what’s gone wrong?  Well she doesn’t have time to think about that, because she is now dead.

Her sternum just fractured, take another look at that green line, that’s where all of the pressure from any front impact is going to go because of the shape of the two blue cups made for her breasts.  The rest of the armor slides around your body, but because of the two cups for breasts that are often made in fantasy female armors, the pressure point is directly on the sternum.  The breasts are not going to stop the force of you falling onto them, and because of that the metal is going to push in and bash you in the sternum.

What does a fractured sternum do?  Why it goes right into your heart and lungs of course.

(that was the sound of all of my followers inhaling a sharp breath between closed teeth at once)

Here are three great solutions to the problem:

GREAT EXAMPLE OF FANTASY TORSO ARMOR THAT IS FEMININE BUT FUNCTIONAL:

It is usually possible to bind the breasts when fighting if they really are far too large to fit into regular looking armor (there’s padding anyway), but most women can actually fit into a similarly sized male counterpart’s armor quite easily.  Even if that’s the case, the armor can be made to have a curve to it without putting all of the pressure in one area, which was actually a style of armor for quite some time as shown here:

And don’t even get me started on the dreaded “Cleavage Window”

The “Cleavage Window” defeats the purpose of having any armor on your torso because it means you’re just going to be leaving open the vital organs the rest of the armor is trying to protect.

If people are going to protect themselves and not have much torso protection, invest in some blocking lessons, because the best defense is to not get hit at all.  There are also advantages to not having plate armor, and plate armor was often really expensive anyway.

– Edit –

supaslim replied to your post: “Why do you hate the shape of breasts in plate armor so much?”

but how else can you sexualize the women if you don’t give them armored boob pods!!!!

Also, breastplates are shaped to redirect the tip of a sword or spear to the side. Boobplates would redirect the weapon right into the middle of the woman’s chest.

a short PSA on titties!!!

@groseilleetframboise she talks like u, its cute af

Needed to see this

Or you could go to the gym, work out your chest area, and convert the fat into muscle… If you’re fine with having saggy tits, that’s fine, you do you, but to act like big tits have to be saggy no matter what unless they’re implants is incorrect. Tits are the same as legs or any other part on your body. The fat can be converted into muscle through excersize. Fat is jiggly and saggy, muscle is firm and perky. Simple concept really.

Buddy, pal, friendo. People have muscle cells and people have fat cells. You can change the size of them, but muscle cannot turn into fat, and fat cannot turn into muscle

Why do people still think that muscle can be converted to fat? They’re two different tissues. Even smooth muscle cannot be converted to skeletal, so how will fat convert to muscle?

Or we could just acknowledge that boobs are solely meant for feeding infants and literally nothing else and that they don’t need to look a certain way in order to be socially “acceptable”

And that the shithead above knows nothing about female anatomy.

Lmao i work my chest out (to be strong ) and obviously it has in no way influenced my boobs or how nature runs its course on them

lol like do people not understand that we can’t “work out” our boobs? 😂

you can make the pectorals UNDER your boobs stronger, which can have a slight “lifting” effect on the breasts, but you can’t…. convert your boobs… into muscle omfg 😭😭😭 can you imagine…. having ripped breasts of steal… boob six packs….

I don’t know what y'all are talking about, I once punched a shark in the face with my muscley boobs, lol.

It’s true, i was there clapping.

CONVERT FAT INTO MUSCLE ASUHDASYGFHKSGDKURSJLDHGYRJKLSEADHGBAFD

I’M DEAD

Reblog to punch a shark in the face with your muscle boob.

TITTY ALCHEMY AND RIPPED BOOBS

IMMA CONVERT ALL MY TITTY FAT TO MUSCLE AND USE IT TO KILL A MAN

@thebibliosphere with my apologies…

the things I get tagged in I swear to Christ.

Here it is, folks. We finally have an answer.

-Satya

boobs are non-newtonian fluids, a kind of organic plasma

This campaign defies censorship in social media to raise awareness for early detection of breast cancer

This campaign defies censorship in social media to raise awareness for early detection of breast cancer

this is actually super fucking smartass of them

Reblogging as this is so important everyone! My mum had breast cancer and that shit is not nice so please check yourself ladies and gents! 💕💕💕

Greatest tattoo ever omfg

I’m not even mad at this one…

Practical, not sexist or supposed-to-look-hot female armor which actually protects you.

Look. 

Look at the lack of tit cups. 

Bonus:

Originally posted by interpretinginterpretations

PHASMA WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Let them know

Perfect answer.

“Her appearance is a major factor in why I’m with her, to be honest.” “The real reason women get a reduction is for the sake of their own vanity.” “I’m only 27 and the thought of having a woman with small breasts for the rest of my life is impossible”

So you’ve been with a guy two years, mention you’re thinking of getting a breast reduction, get all that fanfare and suddenly realise that guy was only with you for your boobs. I have no words.

These poor women. :(

Men are trash.

DUMP HIM

DUMP HIM

DUMP HIM

“Why won’t she do what I tell her to with her body? DDDD:”

I PUT GIANT GOOGLY EYES ON MY BOOBS

come on this is funny

boobly eyes

i will never stop being amused by the term ‘boobly eyes’

Calm your tits.

I was looking at furniture on the Swedish equivalent of ebay, and found this.

Who decided to steal Madonna’s bra and turn it into a sofa?