male/female socialisation is the fact that in the middle of a meltdown usually autistic males punch around themselves with no concern while we punch ourselves because of concern
decided to make a separate account bc i didn’t want it to be a side blog so this is kinda pain in the ass
I believe that one of the most tragic things that can happen in one’s life is the disruptive relationship with the body you’ve been born with.
Despite all of the things I’ve gone through, I doubt that I would trade that experience, because I’m unwilling to lose the acceptance that I had to fight for.
Like many other girls around the world I’ve witnessed woman’s body and its ‘beauty’ being up for discussion.
By men usually, but it’s always followed by some of the women.
The problems started to come out of thin air.
First there were my ethnic features, my nose in particular. From the present paradigm I can say that there is nothing wrong with it. First and foremost it does its job: I can breathe, and do so very well. Secondly, it’s just… a nose? It’s quite literally ordinary, especially amongst my people, and it’s beautiful to be apart of some society, to be able to trace your history, your DNA by your phenotype. Our bodies are so much more than just us. It’s the history.
But because it was different from the standards of a country where I lived, I was claimed as unattractive. And we all know how men treat women who are not attractive from their point view.
It destroyed me in many ways. I was and still sometimes am embarrassed to walk with people side by side, knowing they can see my side profile. I had this animal fear of them seeing me like that. And only recently I saw one photo of myself, and there was a revelation. There is literally nothing wrong with my nose. It suits my face, and it’s beautiful.
Then there was weight. From my early childhood I’ve been doing sports. All kinds of them. It helped me quite a lot, building stamina and I have been healthy, which supposedly is all that matters.
But when I was just a girl in cheerleading, my male coach has been making remarks of me being chubby, having a stomach. I loved him as a parent figure, I still do, but it’s something I doubt I will be able to forgive. Since those remarks I started thinking about food and the amounts of food I consume. I remember being at a contest, and eating an apple. My coach saw me and said tiredly: ‘you’re eating again.’
And it all changed something within me, irrevocably.
I look back at the picture now, of me being a child, and all I can see is a kid who’s REALLY small. I had no over weight, whatsoever. I was just a child whose features haven’t sharpened.
Lastly, there are stretch marks. It isn’t something that was noticed by anyone. It’s rather something brought up by the internet. I was constantly seeing content about how to deal with stretch marks, and it made me believe that I have to fix my body. I was horrified, how am I so young, and so damaged. I had to buy oils, or whatever else, and to fix it, to become attractive because that is where my value comes.
But it’s not. Your value is not in your beauty, because beauty does not exist. It’s a social construct, as many other things that make people suffer: gender roles, deviance, marriage; the list goes on.
You can make a choice. To not care about those things. To just accept yourself the way you are, the way you were born, the way your body is created.
Because there cannot be anything inherently ‘wrong’ with you.
source: Everyday Male Chauvinism
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every slur is recognised by liberals as unacceptable unless it’s a slur used exclusively for women.
I’m so sick of the angry people (mostly men and libfems) in my inbox telling me that bitch isn’t a slur every time I say it is one.
No, it’s not on the same level as some other slurs like the n-word, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a misogynistic slur. Tell me how a word meaning a female dog used for BREEDING isn’t a dehumanizing, derogatory term for women. Explain it right now.
You don’t think women have been beaten, raped and killed while having that word shouted at them by men? And isn’t it funny how men call each other bitches to mean “coward,” “feminine,” “weak,” etc? 🤔
You just don’t want to admit that women are an oppressed group.
you didn’t answer the question
Sex is why women are opressed
Gender is how
my silly lesbians are back 🥳
MBS has announced that Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko will be back for a second season which will premiere on June 26th.
Arasha looking smashing in The Smosh and the Furious | Dread
shippers/fans of hetero pairings don’t have a say in anything actually. how do you have a fucking audacity to act opressed?
Came across a ridiculous post from a moot and just like, the % of amangela shippers who can't refrain from making every single thing they're in shipping and covering posts with it is over 70 atp, but they have the nerve to be annoyed by damangela shippers? Claiming they all think it's real when it's a tiny percentage all while amangela shippers are slapping captions like "she wants that cookie" on innocent pictures. Yall b projecting HARD.
Damangela fans have to look for fkn scraps bc they aren't in videos together often. Amangela shippers get shit multiple times a week. Pls get off ur high horse. Both of u are in rpf. Get over urself.
All I'm gonna say is you're all being ridiculous and you sound like squabbling middle schoolers. Block each other or shut the hell up. I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. Go back to Twitter if you wanna do that shit.