The Anti-Beauty movement is a radical feminist motion that inspires women and girls to sever ties with the concept of beauty in order to rehumanize the female body. "Beauty" encompasses the industry and all its habits which enable self-objectification, insecurity, and body harm
@Serena_Partrick@jk_rowling I was lurking after a long hiatus and couldn't help but comment on the fact that your name is still Billy Bragg π€£ after all this time
I truly think there's something wrong with men who think a woman cutting her hair short is somehow now manly. It's the most non-hetero thing a man can do when he claims a woman is no longer attractive to him unless she's in some fake doll-like costume for him.
@mario83150746@LeniManic@Serena_Partrick @savce_carter @ianmiles Typical female names with "len" in them will go by Leni as a nickname, like Helena, Magdalena, or Lenora.
It's also obvious when an internet stranger is a man based on his misogynistic and bold posts.
I don't know any man that grows hair on his back either. That seems rather rare unlike women's body hair which is an inevitable reality for every woman on the planet.
Yet boys aren't taught to start shaving their backs as soon as they turn 10. There isn't an entire societal conversation or culture around beauty standards for men's back hair like there is for women's body hair. Don't be an idiot.
@Serena_Partrick@ianmiles Around the same proportion of women find back hair unattractive as the number of men who find leg hair unattractive. And the in-group preferences are similar for both cases, only slightly less dislike than for the opposite sex
Can't see what's pedophilic about it?
I disagree that the removal of hair is just aesthetics, our hair is definitively linked to our maturity and, for many, the removal of it is costly (both in terms of money and discomfort) as well as time consuming.
From personal experience, men's rejection of body hair is mainly performative in response to social stigma. I had a number of lovers for a number of years whilst having hairy as fuck legs. Not a one of them gave a shit.
I also think it is somewhat concerning for a man to prefer his partner not to look like a fully grown woman.
I haven't removed any of my body hair for 6 years because I realized how dehumanizing and objectifying it is to make women do something a man doesn't have to just to be "acceptable" to society. I will never conform to your hateful standards again and you can kys if you're mad
@ianmiles Armpit & leg shaving was invented by ad agencies to sell razors to women.
The idea that us just existing is somehow "wrong" is incredibly harmful to the psyche of women & girls, & I reject it completely.
Also, I find the fetishization of hairless bodies quite paedophilic.
Just saw an ad by Venus saying "Loving my skin means taking care of it" while showing a woman shaving her pits with a Venus razor.
Umm ... If you loved your skin you wouldn't give yourself razor bumps and you'd actually let your skin grow the hairs it's meant to have.
Women get so defensive when you give constructive criticism about how harmful it is they can't live without make up and can't go outside with their bare face bc a lot of them have this mindset. We grew up hating our natural state ending up with mandatory make up for everything
Body modification for aesthetic purposes of any kind, especially dehumanizing practices for women like hair removal, should be taught against by parents and kids books. The fact that puberty books for little girls teaches you how to shave, and mothers also enforce it, is awful.