Life’s too short for femininity.
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There are a lot of people in the notes going on about how I apparently don’t get femininity and how there’s nothing wrong with it if a woman enjoys it. The point of my post was to make you consider this:
Anything that makes a woman feminine in the eyes of society usually requires time (shaving, makeup, hair, nails), skill (makeup, hair, walking in heels), money (I really don’t think I need to list examples for that), is unpractical (makeup, heels, sandals, long hair, long nails, jewelry, dresses) or unhealthy (makeup, plastic surgery, hair products, heels, “waist trainers”).
It doesn’t matter if you genuinely enjoy looking feminine, all I’m trying to say is that the more feminine a woman makes herself appear, the less free time, money and mobility she has. There is no other positive aspect of femininity than the aesthetic and a positive response from your social environment. Maybe that’s worth it for you, but I think it deserves to be questioned why so many women choose that way.
or we could not shame woman for wanting to get up early and do their makeup and take care of themselves because it makes them feel good. feminism is about supporting woman (and men) no matter how they choose to live their life, not saying that woman have to break societys expectations in order to stand up for their rights. why do so many choose that way? because they want to. end of story.
I don’t see how you would get the idea that my post is supposed to shame women for being feminine? So many women on this post (even just the first part) accuse me of trying to guilt them into going out barefaced.
Women are being pressured to be feminine through the movie-, advertising-, beauty- and fashion industry. You don’t even see women portrayed in historic films having leg hair. And that’s not even mentioning the pressure men and other women are putting on us to look feminine.
I’m just a feminist on the internet, trying to make other women question society. So I think I’m allowed to be pissed off at people accusing me of pressuring women by simply raising the question as to how what they are told by basically every other source in their environment might not be as wonderful as they have been led to believe.
So I ask you, do you also go on posts praising femininity and all these beauty rituals that a woman can put herself through to complain about shaming women into performing femininity? I think not. Maybe ask yourself why that is.
Women literally grow leg hair naturally, not through some masculine-envy meditation ritual. They don’t look more like men with leg hair, they look more like adult human females with leg hair.
I hate that when a woman doesn’t cover her gray hair when shes in that transition phase from colored to gray hair, it’s seen as unkempt and unprofessional. But when a man does it, people are neutral. It’s either seen as charming or just another day in the office. Why Are women not allowed to age. We have silver foxes but no silver vixens. Why are women expect to look 40 and under until she immediately transfers into the grandma role. Men are allowed to ride out every decade of their life but women have to spend time and money trying to shave 10 years off their face. It’s so stupid.
you ever notice how in women’s razor commercials the models’ legs are already completely hairless before they “shave” them
like we can’t even handle showing body hair in a commercial about how to get rid of body hair
i hate when men complain about women’s body hair, even like the fine hair on their backs. go fuck a shark if you wanna have sex with something hairless
having body hair annoys me but removing body hair also annoys me and also life, life annoys me
- what she says: you can touch my hair if you want
- what she means: please for the love of god play with my hair feel how soft it is i will roll over into your lap like a kitten
my hair is VERY soft and could EASILY be played with and you know how many people are playing with my hair??? zero
women grow hair on their boobs and their butts and their legs and their arms and their stomachs and their face and really anywhere their genetics decides to have hair and it is perfectly normal what isnt normal is men who have never touched a razor trying to shame women for not looking like a hairless baby
Are you ever just.. really happy you’re female? Like it doesn’t happen often but sexism aside every now and then you’re just suddenly aware of your body and even though you might not like every part of it it’s yours and nobody else’s, body hair and occasional bad skin and scars and periods and stretch marks and cellulite included and you’ve been through so much together that you can’t help but love it
