this tweet has been irritating me all day. “happy pride month” and it’s a performance for the male gaze. this is what lesbians mean when we say that fetishization isn’t acceptance. they only care if it gets them off
i understand the perspective of not wanting to talk about women's bodies in a negative way, but when you're a role model for millions of girls, it gets to a point where it's extremely dangerous to pretend like this is normal and attack anyone who raises concerns with it
acknowledging the growing trend of emaciated women in hollywoood doesn’t make you misogynistic because you’re “commenting on women’s bodies”. pretending it’s normal actually contributes to the millions who lose their lives to eating disorders every year. (~80% being women)
notice how leftists hate both malala yousafzai and marjane satrapi. it's almost like they hate brown women who stand up for women's rights because their loyalty lies with reactionary men as long as they're seen as anti-west
💔 "Nobody can take your freedom. I have lived in a dictatorship. There was a ban on everything! Was I less free in my mind? No, I wasn’t. Did I become a stupid person? No, I didn’t. Because no matter how much they looked at me, they could not get into my mind."
~ Marjane Satrapi