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[–][deleted] 31 insightful - 5 fun31 insightful - 4 fun32 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

the idea of NB is just a fancy way of saying misogyny. Women are being told that if you don't dress like a barbie doll then you're no longer a woman, so instead of pushing back on the blatant misogyny, now we just agree and internalize the myth that we're not women. The fact that they still call themselves a lesbian, tells you that deep down everyone knows the truth.

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If women didn’t look as much like porn dolls I think it’s possible that men wouldn’t be as inspired to become them. It’s interesting because the more we shy away from our natural bodies, the more we make them into something whose topography can be replicated using hormones and surgery and makeup. We do a lot of very unnatural things to ourselves and we associate those practices with being female, so much that even being critical of those practices draws hate from the women who participate in them, as if it is woman-hating to even mention that these things don’t help. That’s a pretty hardcore “choice feminism” pov. The whole system is a lot bigger than that, of course, but these things are all connected and do tell women that if they don’t look like that then they might not BE women, and men that if they DO like those things they CAN be women. It’s wild

[–]Skipdip 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Amen.