artboobs:Frédéric Bazille 1841-1870, Nu allongé
The natural female form.
Damn hot!
“For the time I was turned away from a photoshoot for being too fat, for the times I’m booked and the clothes are all size 0, for the time a photographer told me to “suck in” and mentioned he’ll photoshop my fat ass and thighs, for every picture I’ve gotten in print and realizing they photoshopped my boobs bigger, my ass smaller, and my tummy tighter, I dedicate this bite of mexican food to you.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Bathers; 1884-7
There is no more urgent battleground over which to fight patriarchal consumerism than our own sense of self.
As feminists we must resist those messages which attempt to keep us shameful, frightened and tame, preventing us from being sexual, taking risks or wearing clothes that please us.
Real style is empowering, for women of all ages, shapes and backgrounds.
It’s possible, with practice, to own our individual style and live within our own bodies without apology.
It’s possible to wear beautiful clothes and play with personal grooming without becoming an object to be looked at but instead a person looking back.
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The fact is, I simply have a different body type. I happen to have a metabolism like the energizer bunny. I don’t understand why I should feel ashamed for it. I don’t understand why it means I’m not a ‘real woman’ that no man would want anyway. Naturally thin women deserve to be loved and wanted and lusted after as much as the women who were blessed with amazing and stunning curves.
Exercise empathy. Embrace uniqueness. Encourage natural variation. All women deserve to feel good about themselves in their natural bodies, regardless of whether those bodies are a size 20 or a size 2.
I skimmed this (work, people), but I loved this closing.
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