Men are exposed to male fashion models but do not see then as role models.
Naomi Wolf hitting the nail on the head about one of the key ways beauty norms for men and women differ.
Men are exposed to restrictive norms of appearance. However, few young men will list male models amongst their role models, whereas many young women aspire to be models & look up to female models, because men are not taught that their appearance is their core value in the same way that women are. And because men have always had so many more politicians, business leaders, and fictional heroes (defined by traits other than their appearance) of their gender to admire than women.
We should talk about how beauty norms hurt men and women, but we must also acknowledge that sexism is a huge force that pushes beauty norms on women and hurts women in ways it does not men.
(via fuckyeahbodypositivity)
I had a dream I was watching keeping up with the kardashians and Kylie had gotten cyborg legs like they had taken the legs of an AT-ST from Star Wars and put them on her lower half so she was like 11 feet tall and Kim was like “I think Kylie’s new legs are SO fun..”
Girls are told to be skinny but not too skinny and to wear makeup but not so much that guys can tell and to dress in revealing clothes but not too revealing or else you’re a slut and a hundred other contradictory standards so I think guys can deal with being made fun of for wearing fedoras
you are a skeleton
who has given up on food
touching your lips so that
“skinny” will reverberate on theirs
when they look at you.
you are skinny
in a literal meaning of the word-
skin hangs loosely over your bones
and every rib is on display
when you lift your shirt.
you saw girls with
protruding hips and thigh gaps
pursing their lips at you
on the covers of magazines
and wished there was less of you too.
you didn’t see the scary side of skinny
that was photoshopped out of the ads
you looked at your own hollowed eyes
and the clumps of hair that
fell into your hands in the shower.
you thought being thin meant being beautiful
and that your worth rested on how
much you weighed.
now you float through the halls
foreshadowing the ghost you are turning into,
all for the chance of “thin” being etched
into your tombstone.
but hunger is not your body
trying to make you ugly
and eating does not have to be followed
by an apology.
being that small means being sick
and, in the battle against yourself,
i hope “skinny” does not win
and finally turn you from a person,
into a skeleton.
Girls are told to be skinny but not too skinny and to wear makeup but not so much that guys can tell and to dress in revealing clothes but not too revealing or else you’re a slut and a hundred other contradictory standards so I think guys can deal with being made fun of for wearing fedoras
prishivlani
silkbisous
autumn look: faux fur coat with nothing but expensive lingerie underneath, glitter boots, dark purple lipstick & the tears of my ex lovers as my cheekbone highlight
