watching an actress in full makeup pretend to wash her face and then pat dry her still fully contoured cheeks for an acne wash commercial
when i was 13 i had no idea what make up looked like on. media literacy is important
I especially like the makeup remover ads where she takes off her lipstick, to reveal lighter lipstick underneath.
or the commercials for razors with women shaving their already baby smooth, waxed legs
This is such a surreal, dystopian thing about our culture. We literally treat the natural female body like its obscene. No wonder girls grow up with so much self loathing when they feel as if their own skin is incorrect.
Yeah
I know the hot new meme on Tumblr is “weird male characters people on here would have gotten really weird about if it released today” but like
every single female character from anything even mildly popular no matter what always gets this same treatment by dudes and it’s been going on since forever
even if it’s some lady that’s basically a stick figure
even if it’s a kid character from a kid cartoon
even if it’s some weird fish or a monster or whatever
and nobody ever really calls it out and it’s become so normalized
{yes, “not all fans/fandoms,” but a pattern I keep seeing often enough to be noteworthy:}
Whitedude Character: *gets written badly*
Fandom: Well, that’s what fanfic is for. Time for a fix-it AU!Character of marginalized identity: *gets written badly*
Fandom: Ugh, this character is AWFUL, how could they do that? They’re so terrible; let’s ignore their existence and hope they die. *posts hate in tags* *leaves backhanded comments/tags on fanwork*The point: when whitedude characters get written poorly, it’s the writer’s fault (and fandom will cheerfully pick up the slack); when characters of marginalized identities get written poorly, it’s somehow the character’s fault (and an excuse for fandom to devalue them).
baku:
the worst memories of being bullied is when ppl would pretend not to be bullying you and ask you questions and u thought they were just asking u stuff but they were actually laughing at you the entire time and u had no idea bcos you were young and you didnt understand why people would be mean to you when you didnt do anything wrong.
I spent a lot of my childhood in a constant state of “this is a trap but I don’t know how”
This stayed with me. Sometimes when people are nice to me, I still think they have bad intentions.