[myglittervoid]

[midnightssea]

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

[quendergeer]

you'd think occasionally men would need to touch other men like this to manoeuvre them out of the way but it never happens

[thelightfluxtastic]

I have a research background in weight stigma and I currently work in mental health, often with LGBTQ+ clients.

I've met nonbinary people who struggle with disordered eating because they only ever see androgyny depicted as featureless thinness.

I've met trans women who struggle with disordered eating because they've internalized the idea that girls are meant to be thin, dainty, and delicate.

I've men trans men who struggle with disordered eating, because they feel women are allowed to be soft/curvy but men need to be muscular or thin and flat.

So many trans people are convinced that weight loss is the key to appearing as their desired gender, even when they want radically different gender presentations.

The societal idealization of thinness and fatphobia falsely invades and derails people's idea of what their "ideal body" should look like.

[thisisthinprivilege]

The social effects of privileging thinness are so damaging. Like, it's hard enough to deviate from expected gender roles and binary sexuality but now fat people have to do it on hard mode

[thelightfluxtastic]

This post has kind of exploded and my heart is with everyone in the notes sharing their struggles with this trap.

But to the folks "yes, but-"ing it with statements like 'I know this trend is bad but I just want to be skinny for my own/personal/completely unrelated reasons', I am asking you to take five minutes to consider why that is.

I'm not your therapist, doctor, or dietician. I can't say what is best for your mental and physical health. But take a moment to think: why all your 'gender goals' celebrities or fictional characters are skinny? Why can't a man/woman/nonbinary person look like you? Why is it hard to imagine transitioning in your own body type?

And I say that not from a place of judgement! I've been there- some days I am still there. Even with all my academic background, even with examples/role models of fat nonbinary people, even with years chipping away at internalized fatphobia, I've had to grapple with "But I want to look like [generic paper doll/anime character/celebrity/thin person]".

You are not immune to propaganda. And also, you are just as capable of learning body positivity/acceptance while still transitioning.

You deserve to feel gender euphoria in and with your body type and size.

[kinkyrius]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[goldensunset]

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

[firestorm09890]

[frankbelloriley]

[depsidase]

[victusinveritas]

It's almost like something happened in 2020-now that is causing these problems.

[weaselle]

ignoring everything the pandemic response specialists were saying was good for the economy tho. State governors and federal agencies with no medical experience and no economics education told us so

[small-witch-big-hat]

"no reliable data" What A Curious Coincidence. I Wonder What Might Have Been Happening In That Period To Cause Such a Thing

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[crabussy]

-> listening to a jaunty country style song -> hear the lyrics wrong -> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten -> hears the same fucked up lyrics -> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says

-> oh!

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[stardustfanfare]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[thedreadpiratecam]

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

[dogpuppy]