Slat By Slat: in reference to that post the other day about dude not liking body hair on women
the thing is it’s not a surprise when someone doesn’t find something like that attractive
when people say stuff like that i feel like going YOU DON’T SAY?!?! REALLY?? YOU DON’T LIKE ANYTHING THAT DEVIATES FROM THE GENDER NORMS THE PATRIARCHY HAS SCRIPTED FOR US? WHAT A…
Yes. Jesus. It’s as if straight men with mainstream tastes truly don’t realize that life is an education in their mainstream tastes. Every moment of television. Practically all films ever. Family gatherings where your aunt comments on how you’ve lost weight and look “better.” Practically the entire Internet. Every. moment. So that when a woman who’s hairy or fat or in anyway departs from beauty culture standards looks in the mirror she sees herself, her body, & her own decisions about how she wants to look but she also hears the echo of all those damn voices. All the images she does not resemble. All the times she’s seen a person like her in media just so they could be humiliated & denigrated. So that everyone can learn good and proper to react with disgust when they see a body like hers.
She doesn’t need you to add to the chorus. If she’s non-traditional in her looks, it’s not an accident. She’s not made a mistaken and oops forgotten to please you with her body. She’s made a decision that was hard and painful and brave.
Leave her the fuck alone if you’re not into that. Everything isn’t about you.
Also, to the guy in my Spanish class who felt the need to comment on Frida Kahlo being “ugly” when we watched a documentary on her: fuck you. None of us were there to hear what makes your dick happy. And some of us really love Frida Kahlo.
^THIS!
Heeeelllloooo PIP
(via feministfaces)
