All females should be able to safely exist shirtless when the situation is necessary or comfortable. We should be able to do this without being sexualized.
I have nothing but the utmost love and respect for my sisters who have had mastectomies, but I am side-eyeing the hell out of the many, many women I see lately talking about getting top surgery just so that they can be shirtless outside.
Listen up, friends. We should fight for a new world, instead. We should fight for spaces where the female body can embrace as much freedom as the male body is regularly allowed to have without gross sexualization. We have the right to bare chests. Liberating yourself from the mindset of “not being able to be shirtless” because you have breasts might just be the best thing you ever do for yourself. Your breasts don’t hold you back from this experience - society’s expectation for what those breasts mean is what holds you back. It’s not physical, it’s cultural, and every Woman deserves to be able to to be bare chested without being in danger.
Being uncomfortable with feminity doesn’t mean that you are not a woman
It means that feminity is uncomfortable and has nothing to do with being a woman
repeat after me:
even if i don’t like my body today i will take care of it
even if i don’t like myself today i will still be patient and kind with myself
even if i do not love myself i will still take care of and be kind to myself, despite not wanting to
Artistic conception of the auroras os Saturn and Earth (jupiter’s image is real - ultraviolet) Instagram: wonders_of_the_cosmos
Do you want to know what is scary? The fact that, in all of the observable universe, there is a single place where there is NOTHING. Literally NO. THING. And it looks like this. Say hello to “Bootes Void.” 250 million light years of literal nothingness. THIS is horror.
I love being an unpleasant hairy little woman. I eat some bread and I laugh loudly. I pet my cat. I apologize to no one. Sometimes I make rude noises.