May 2012
where am i going?: a rant about hair. →
many-splendored-rat.tumblr.com
If I ask someone for advice about my hair, or if someone phrases it in a nice way, I have no problem at all with people telling me it’d look better long.
but if you just out of the blue tell me that I should grow my hair out & that I look like a boy, don’t get surprised when I get pissed off.
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“Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one.” —
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one.” —
The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)
truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue
(via discontented-delight)
omg that last sentence is so perfect
(via ftmfeminist)
