#weaponized beauty

[jennsens]

[lustywander]

Reminder to all the cool ladies that decided to follow me for some reason:

DON’T SETTLE

HAVE HIGH STANDARDS

LET MEN SEEK YOUR APPROVAL

Take it from your 27 year old big sis here. I let a low quality man take 6 years of my 20’s I can never get back, because I believed all the shit they teach you about being a Cool Girl.

It is so much better to be a “high maintenance” girl.

(In case you haven’t noticed, that’s just another sexist label to shame women for having standards.)

Don’t pursue men. At the first sign of bullshit, walk away. He’s lucky that you even let him take you out on a date. Don’t give away that power.

[aconitemare]

The problem I have with weaponized beauty's popularity in action films is that it enforces the idea that women's main (if not only) strength is their looks. That the only way a woman could best a man is by seducing him. She has to reduce herself to an object to succeed in a "man's world." To succeed, she has to appeal to men. Her brains are nothing without her body. Her value "on the field" is whether a man wants to fuck her.

[issabellelightwoods]

Fashion Fit For... The Female Body as a Weapon.

This is not weaponized femininity, nor is it a female knight. The Female Body as a weapon is literally that. Woman as no longer human, no longer flesh and bone and blood, but rather a machine, an instrument of death.

[issabellelightwoods]

Fashion Fit For... The Killer Queen

She is ruthless, but not reckless. Cool, cunning, and calculated she will eliminate any man who stands in her way. 

[247hiddleboner-blog]

Duino: The First Elegy

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic

Orders? And even if one were to suddenly

take me to its heart, I would vanish into its

stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but

the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear,

and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains

to destroy us. Every Angel is terror.

And so I hold myself back and swallow the cry

of a darkened sobbing. Ah, who then can

we make use of? Not Angels: not men...

- Rainer Maria Rilke