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Just NO.
It’s totally okay to “go for curves”. I do myself.
But it’s also totally okay to like thin people. Lots of people do, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
More importantly, it’s okay to be fat, and it’s okay to be thin. There’s nothing wrong with either.
However, most importantly, it’s unutterably wrong that this statement reinforces, rather than challenges the idea that it’s okay for women to “die” to please the male gaze. If you want to attack that idea, then don’t just say “Hey, men like curves.” Say, “Hey, don’t kill yourself based on what you think a man wants to see. Find your own value in yourself. That’s the only way to ever be free. As long as you base your self-worth on someone else’s opinion of your physical attractiveness, you give them power over you that they can choose to revoke at any time. Be you, for you.”
And maybe also question the exceedingly common belief that people’s worth is based on their appearance anyway. Your value as a person is determined by your character and your actions, not by your appearance.
(Entirely aside from the pettiness of addressing a corrective note to someone who has died, after the fact, if we take the ‘die for’ literally.)
What If just said.
Also, the whole concept of “real men” is just as offensive to me as the concept of “real women”. 3rdly, “real men” go for whatever the hell they’re attracted to, without apology. Different people are attracted to different things. THIS IS OK.
You know, you’d think that by now, people would have gotten through their heads that there is diversity in this world in EVERYTHING and that’s a good thing. Also, that bringing others down is not the way to raise one’s self up. I mean, shit, didn’t we learn that as kids? I distinctly remember a Berenstein Bears book on this very topic.
As I always say, you can be fat positive w/o being skinny negative. And if you try to give me the old “but skinny people aren’t oppressed thing”, well, “too” skinny people ARE always being put down [ex. “go eat a sandwich”], plus, TALKING SMACK ABOUT PEOPLE ISN’T OK. EVER. PERIOD. END OF STORY. Sizeism goes a bunch of different ways. Size positivity means positivity of EVERY size. ALL THE SIZES. And it’s ALL judgement on other people’s bodies, which isn’t ok either.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m466vgVv1g1r3sctwo1_1280.jpg)
They tell me to dream
what they don’t tell me is
the pain that will come with it
the desperation
the agony
the feeling that you’re
never quite good enough
don’t have what it takes to achieve
that dream
that desire
that goal
they told us we could be anything
they told me that I was smart
that I would do great things
no one told me
I didn’t have to
it was expected of me
they didn’t tell me that
my ADHD might hold me back
that depression would
engulf my days
“blind my eyes
& steal my dreams”
he tells me to dream
wants me to think big
i prefer to think little
baby steps
it’s more feasible
and tiny steps’ll get me there
as long as I keep taking them
I’m afraid
I don’t want to dream big
I don’t want to dream at all
dreams hurt
gossamer promises whispered
in my ear after dark
seductive but deadly
and that’s when the subway starts chanting “KISS KISS KISS KISS”
Does anyone know what subway system this is on? It kinda looks like an old TTC (Toronto) train, but I don’t remember them having yellow doors.
(Source: College Humor)
![lgbtlaughs:
Surviving the World comic by Dante Shepherd. Text reads: “If it is harder and scarier for you to explain to your children why some people love each other than for you to explain to your children why some people should be treated less than equal, you’re doing it wrong.” Beside the picture, Dante stands with his three-week old baby in his arms, pretending to be lecturing it.
[via watchthestarsturnyoutonothing]
Word.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3qrdcIRCu1qak0qdo1_500.jpg)
