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Milo. 23. Glamarchist. Non-binary. Femme-inist. Fat. Photography. Body/Sex-Positive. Kinky. Polyamorous. Pierced. Tattooed. Demisexual. Queer. Aries.Pronouns: sie/hir/hirs
I dig: non-violent communication, sequins, pugs, cigarettes, tequila, body modification, listening, social justice, radical mental health, freckles, lace, leather, boots, vintage clothing, pin-up/rockabilly style, Ani DiFranco, Mal Blum, silliness and awkwardness and vulnerability over holier than thou attitudes, astrology, crafting, spicy food, boundaries, consent, Joss Whedon, sex toys, diet coke, self-awareness, self-education, poetry, glasses, Kate Bornstein, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, White Oleander, Eternal Sunshine, Queer Theory, Dean Spade, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, zebra stripes, cheetah print, and hair accessories.
My Loves:
•pensandpaper
•yourbfh
•kylathegreat
•how-charming
•rawtransformation
•shaking-my-confidence
•gallifreyan-genderfuck
•doezee
•riotsnotdiets
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"Ever notice how the women in Cosmopolitan magazine so often look like they’re a hair’s breath from an orgasm? This goes for the ads as well as the editorials. Have you ever wondered: hmm, isn’t it sort of weird that a women’s magazine that is itself sold to women and is simultaneously trying to sell things to women should be filled with other women staring out of the pages making the kinds of dull-witted sexyfaces you’d expect them to be making at men whose attentions they were seeking? Why are women being instructed to look at women who are ostensibly looking at invisible men? The magazine is showing you women via the male gaze. The magazine is also training you to see yourself via the male gaze, and to put more currency in how you look to the outside observer, or how you look in a mirror, as opposed to how you look at the world, as a person seeing. The message is that women don’t see; they are only seen. You want a man? You wear these clothes, stand in this posture, make this sexyface: these are the symbols of the straight female. In a heteronormative, male-driven world, this what it means to be beautiful, or at least sexually available."
Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze | Fatshionista
(via knospen, curvesahead) (via hatari) (via somerset) (via loveyourchaos) (via rememo) (via princessketchup) (via queerandpresentdanger) (via ireensarrows)
To put it another way: to be a woman is to be seen. You want to be a woman? You do these things so that your appearance is sufficiently designed such that you are a woman.
That bit about wanting a man comes in a step or two later.
(via glitterbombing)
This is so well put.
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