the female form.

thiscuntsays:

the thing is it’s not a surprise when someone doesn’t find something like that attractive

when people say stuff like that i feel like going YOU DON’T SAY?!?! REALLY?? YOU DON’T LIKE ANYTHING THAT DEVIATES FROM THE GENDER NORMS THE PATRIARCHY HAS SCRIPTED FOR US? WHAT A SURPRISE.

and people will say “well folks are allowed to have their preferences”

and you know what they’re right. but i want people to understand that their preferences are very much socially influenced. if we lived in a society where hairy women was normal, more people would find it attractive.

i want people to understand that their preferences are hardly their own but rather that of their culture.

and i want people to understand that those preferences put pressure on others to follow that script so everything stays as it is. i want people to understand what they call “their preferences” are likely inherently very oppressive. something as simple as not like body hair on a woman, as though it’s the first time it’s been uttered from a man’s mouth, actually dictates what others are and are not allowed to do without being socially ridiculed.

you think i don’t know people won’t find me gross cause i’m hairy? yeah.

so again, when people basically say “oh i’m just not attracted to any woman that’s hairy or a WOC or fat or whatever it’s just my preference” it’s not like you’re a unique individual. men have the privilege of being able to dictate their preferences as such, they keep those preferences in place, and keep others in check with these “preferences”.

male privilege allows my [white, cisgender, straight] male friend to tell me to put my arms down in public lest people see my hairy pits, or tell me he doesn’t find black girls attractive.

but he’s allowed to have these preferences.

these socially constructed, oppressive, racist, sexist, what-have-you preferences.

just be aware okay?