ok i wasn't gonna go into this but it really bothers me so i have to. once people begin to use phrases like "ideal female body" and "i prefer" you've really lost the point of it entirely. it's not about your preferences and that's the language that's gonna get people jumping on you every single time.
liberating people from the confines of beauty standards is not elimination of the things people do to conform to them. it's allowing people the choice to do what makes them happy without ridicule one way or the other. the point is for people to do things not because they feel they have to, but because they like to do them. it's about removing patriarchal bullshit requirements to participate in society without ridicule or shame.
don't like shaving your legs? you shouldn't have to.
don't like putting on makeup? you shouldn't have to.
it's not right or wrong to do either of those things and the point is to not shame anyone for doing or not doing them. if someone shaves their legs, they should do it for themselves, and not someone else. same for makeup. you do it for yourself because it makes you feel good and YOU like it. not to satisfy someone else's preferences or standards. normalize doing or not doing things because you want to, not because you have to. if men want to wear makeup, hell yeah. shave their legs? HELL YEAH! paint nails? FUCK YEAH! it's ok if they don't want to, too.
100% agreed. I think it atrocious that there even is something like a beauty standard. I never mention to say an unshaved body is ideal. Every body is ideal to the degree the wearer thinks.
ok i wasn't gonna go into this but it really bothers me so i have to. once people begin to use phrases like "ideal female body" and "i prefer" you've really lost the point of it entirely. it's not about your preferences and that's the language that's gonna get people jumping on you every single time.
liberating people from the confines of beauty standards is not elimination of the things people do to conform to them. it's allowing people the choice to do what makes them happy without ridicule one way or the other. the point is for people to do things not because they feel they have to, but because they like to do them. it's about removing patriarchal bullshit requirements to participate in society without ridicule or shame.
don't like shaving your legs? you shouldn't have to.
don't like putting on makeup? you shouldn't have to.
it's not right or wrong to do either of those things and the point is to not shame anyone for doing or not doing them. if someone shaves their legs, they should do it for themselves, and not someone else. same for makeup. you do it for yourself because it makes you feel good and YOU like it. not to satisfy someone else's preferences or standards. normalize doing or not doing things because you want to, not because you have to. if men want to wear makeup, hell yeah. shave their legs? HELL YEAH! paint nails? FUCK YEAH! it's ok if they don't want to, too.
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100% agreed. I think it atrocious that there even is something like a beauty standard. I never mention to say an unshaved body is ideal. Every body is ideal to the degree the wearer thinks.