Being A Girl And Hitting Puberty Is So Traumatic. You Go From Being A Genderless Little Free Thing To

I used to love drawing women years ago (especially as fairies) because the female form is beautiful. As I got older and saw how women are so sexualized in EVERY image, I began to feel uncomfortable drawing them with visible breasts because I felt subconsciously that even acknowledging that part of female anatomy was sexualizing them, so the breasts got smaller and smaller until they were pretty much flat chested and the women were androgynous. I am pretty sure this was a microcosm of what happens to women who feel dysphoria over their own breasts because of discomfort being sexualized, and just want them to go away. I understand it entirely. A sick culture that warps and makes a perversion out of natural things will make you eventually feel an aversion to those things.

you know why it’s so critically important to celebrate women over the age of 40? 

because young women and girls need role models. need someone to aspire to become as they age. 

as it is, society basically tells girls and young women: aspire to be 18-22. do not aspire or imagine past that, for you are useless without youth and beauty. do not aspire to be wise, or strong, beautiful without youth, or valuable with lines and wrinkles. and THAT is scary. we put a cap on aspirations for girls, because we want them to think the ideal comes and goes by 20–when really, we’re at our best for many, many years beyond.

Almost every day I think about how if you raised a daughter exactly, precisely like a son, it would be seen as vaguely progressive, but raising a son exactly, precisely like a daughter would be seen as sexual abuse.

Reclaiming these words is a male supremacy linguistic trick to make women participate in their own humiliation.

Post by insidenoworld on tiktok.

“If a movement declares that a man can define what it means to be a woman based on his feelings, but a woman cannot define being a woman based on her material reality, then it is a movement for the interests of men.”

—Tasia Aránguez

I'm disapointed of myself for being on Tumblr during my derivatives course

'Makeup is an art form', yes. If you use it to create funky, vibrant eyeshadows, tradgoth makeup or add spirals and designs to your face, this is a form of 'self expression', as people like to refer to it. It's abnormal and indicates you're doing it for yourself rather than to adhere to the standards of beauty.

However, doing makeup which looks ‘natural’, trying to hide the fact you’re wearing it, using it to cover blemishes, hyperpigmentation etc that is not self expression if anything it’s self concealment. Hiding your natural self to appear more attractive to society is not an art form it’s a form of subordination which reinforces the idea that women must perform and that there’s something inherently flawed about our bodies. But libfems aren’t ready for that conversation.