Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men.
Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)
Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)
(via kiryki)
HI
I am the potoo
I spend most of my time sitting on the edges of tree branches,
pretending to be a stick or dead leaf
it’s not as easy as it looks
I sing virtually exclusively around the period of the full moon
because, according to legend,
I am a mournful spirit in love with the spirit of the moon
(via bite-my-thumb-sir)
THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING AND BRILLIANT THING EVER
This is what happens when women write ad campaigns for other women *dies from the hotness*
this is still my favorite ad of all time
I DIDN’T EXPECT THE DOCTOR AT THE END THOUGH
this is very good yes
This is THE BEST EVER. EVER EVER EVER.
(Source: youtube.com, via bite-my-thumb-sir)
Positive Connotation: Femme is a queer specific term.
Telling straight people they can ID as femme if they’re feminist is the same as telling them they can ID as queer if they’re kinky. Femme originated among trans women of color and lesbians.
It’s also pretty telling that anytime you ask a queer who thinks it’s fine for straight…
Soooo are bisexual women allowed to call themselves femme? I didn’t know the above before and now I am left really confused as to how complex it probably really is.
