#anti beauty standards

[being-kindrad]

Andrea Dworkin's classic Beauty Hurts diagram from Woman Hating (1974), updated for modern procedures, fifty years later.

A first step in the process of liberation (women from their oppression, men from the unfreedom of their fetishism) is the radical redefining of the relationship between women and their bodies. The body must be freed, liberated, quite literally: from paint and girdles and all varieties of crap. Women must stop mutilating their bodies and start living in them. Perhaps the notion of beauty which will then organically emerge will be truly democratic and demonstrate a respect for human life in its infinite, and most honorable, variety. —Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating (1974)

#feminism #radical feminism #anti beauty culture #anti beauty industry #anti beauty standards #anti makeup #andrea dworkin #dworkin #beauty culture #women #woman hating #woman

[uter-us]

incase anyone missed it: pamela anderson went to pfw without makeup!!!

"I'm not trying to be the prettiest girl in the room. I feel like its just freedom. Its like a relief."

i love seeing this. such a win !

#radfem #radical feminist safe #sex based oppression #radical feminism #radblr #anti beauty industry #anti makeup #anti make up #anti beauty standards #anti beauty culture #pamela anderson #paris fashion week #pfw23 #pfw 2023 #not j a reblog tag

[redditreceipts]

lol

#feminism #feminist #radical feminism #beauty standards #anti beauty culture #anti beauty standards #anti beauty industry

[velkabee]

The narrative that every time you touch or move your face will “prematurely” age your skin is so uniquely evil. It’s said as if rubbing your tired eyes is something unnatural; as if having the expressive range of a corpse throughout your entire life is the norm. Your face is meant to move. It’s meant to go outside and cry and grin and be smushed into your cat’s belly when you hug her. Wrinkles are not a sign that you’ve done something wrong—they’re a sign that you’ve lived just as you were meant to.

#anti beauty industry #anti beauty standards #end the beauty industry #radical feminism #anti makeup #radical feminst #radfem #radblr #men dni #radfems do interact

[meili-kese-anyaleko]

are you ugly or have you just internalized white beauty standards?

are you stupid or have you just internalized white intellectualism?

are you lazy or have you just internalized white ideas of productivity?

reframe how you think of yourselves and each other outside of capitalism and colonialism

#anti capitalism #colonialism #intellectualism #anti intellectualism #anti bea #anti beauty standards #anti beauty industry #anti beauty culture

[ccryptopic]

I hate makeup I hate it so much oh my god stop there's about 1 positive to it (self expression) and let's be real the large majority of makeup wearers aren't doing that

#feminism #feminist #makeup #anti makeup #anti beauty culture #anti beauty standards #anti beauty industry

[sad-cinnamongirl]

I'm in my teens and I am often told I need Botox or some kind of plastic surgery to get rid of my fine lines. I used to use drugs. I had an eating disorder. I smoke. I experience stress. I don't look old. I look like a teenager with a face completely appropriate considering my situation.

aging is a gift

#plastic surgery #anti beauty industry #anti beauty culture #anti beauty standards #radblr #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do touch #terfblr #rad fem #anti plastic surgery #anti makeup #beauty culture #radical feminist #female socialization #sex based oppression

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

Forget practicing celibacy women here can't even give up shaving

#radblr #radical feminism #terfsafe #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists do touch #trans exclusionary radical feminist #radical feminist safe #female seperatism #women are the superior sex #Radica #radical feminist #radical feminist community #Radical feminist #gender abolition #Shaving #Anti beauty #anti beauty culture #anti beauty industry #anti beauty standards

[occultist-romantic]

tired of feeling 'undone' because i dont put on makeup or have hairy legs and armpits, or messy hair. people love to attribute these things to not being well-groomed enough and automatically assume i'm not taking care of myself. no i just dont give a shit about what you're thinking of me and i dont exist to be your eyecandy. so take that lol

#anti beauty standards #anti beauty culture #body neutrality #feminist #radblr #radfem #radical feminist #radical feminism #radfem safe #feminism #terfblr #gender critical

[being-kindrad]

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’. —Erin McKean

#feminism #radical feminism #anti beauty culture #anti beauty industry #self love #self acceptance #anti beauty standards #pro woman #women are human #erin mckean #feminist quotes

[uter-us]

when I first told my grandma I stopped shaving she literally went "oh dear God" and rambled abt how armpit hair specifically is unhygienic and makes you smell bad

and I brought up how men have armpit hair too and it's not unhygienic and that we all know their armpit hair wouldnt make THEM smell bad

and she was like "oh well I think it's gross on men too"

and like I've been seeing this increasingly often?? like after pointing out the double standard, people (specifically women but I've heard it from one man too in my experience) are like "well I think that its gross for men to" and it like... makes me sad to think about the lengths women will go to for justification

because like the fact is: neither sex's body hair is unhygienic. and the VAST majority of people recognize that for men, and yet shaving our bodies is still pressured for women in a way its simply just not for men... because its not about cleanliness, its about our appearance and beauty. and it's not "feminist" to think EVERYONE should be shaving their bodies ?? I don't understand this take at all. it's very weird

#radfem #radical feminist safe #sex based oppression #radical feminism #male socialization #anti shaving #anti beauty standards #anti beauty industry #anti beauty culture #not j a reblog tag

[redditreceipts]

#radblr #anti beauty standards #anti beauty industry #fuck your beauty standards #plastic surgery #anti plastic surgery #radical feminism #radical feminists please interact #anti beauty culture

[velkabee]

Every time makeup discourse pops up I see girls repeating the “I use it as an art form!” line, using more creative makeup looks as their example,, & that’s partially true, but a big aspect to those looks is still (in every picture I’ve seen), their remaining ties to conformity. There’s a reason the glitter was placed on the cheekbones & not down the sides of the nose; that the colorful eyeliner always shapes the eyes in a way that “flatters” them.

There are very harsh limits to acceptable creativity in women’s appearances. It makes little difference whether you highlight the tip of your nose with chunky glitter or a more conventional option—the result is the same: a small, button-nosed effect. Nonconformity is only appealing when used as a tool to paint a picture of rigid traditional beauty.

We focus so much on the freeing feeling of self-expression that we become numb to the parts of our makeup routine that come as second nature. Being able to explore creativity in a way that drastically decreases the amount of criticism we’ll receive is of course, an offer that’s hard to turn down. I wish I could know what artistic makeup would look like without the presence of misogynistic social pressure.

#anti makeup #anti beauty industry #anti beauty standards #end the beauty industry #don’t be mean to me pls i’m not good at conveying my thoughts in writing #radical feminism #radical feminst #radfem #radblr #men dni #radfems do interact

[radish-lesbian]

Reading this article about skincare obsessions in children (read:girls).

This makes me so sad. First of all, it’s not ‘kids’ participating in this; it’s girls. It’s almost entirely girls. The fear of aging, the desire to “participate in beauty rituals” (read: be indoctrinated into beauty culture and learn from a young age that your natural body and face aren’t pretty enough) is so closely tied to the policing and hatred of the natural female body. Your skin doesn’t have to be smooth, pale, glowing, and flawless for you to be healthy, but this extreme skincare masquerades under a façade of ‘self care’ or health. It’s just a way to sell you more horrendously expensive products and take up more hours of your day before you feel ‘presentable’.

These girls are being primed and prepped to move onto expensive makeup from younger and younger ages. The beauty industry LOVES this, they love profiting off your insecurity. Misogyny thrives off of this. If you have any amount of skin imperfections, you’ll be told you’re unhygienic or gross or lazy now. It makes me so mad, and it makes me even angrier that this trend isn’t being recognized as the harmful sexist reinforcement of beauty standards that it really is.

#anti makeup #anti beauty culture #anti beauty industry #anti beauty standards #feminism #radfem #radical feminism #anti skincare #misogyny

[hard--headed--woman]

"flawless makeup" "for a flawless faces" there are no flawless faces!!!! there are no flaws!!! they don't exist ! your face can't have flaws! it's just a face! it's neutral! wake up and ditch the capitalist bullshit, it's all just lies from the sexist beauty industry ! there.are.no.flaws.!

#radblr #radical feminism #radfem safe #radfem #radical feminist safe #radical feminist community #radical feminists do touch #féminisme #radical feminists please touch #makeup #anti makeup #beauty #flawless makeup #rad fem #radical feminist #radical feminists do interact #anti beauty industry #anti beauty culture #anti beauty standards #beauty standards #beauty culture #beauty community #anti capitalism #feminism #liberal feminism #womens rights #women's rights #feminist

[moidhaterxxx]

Can we talk about just how insane women being hairless is when you think about it?

In my culture in India as a child many women would undergo awful pain using a flour paste to literally rip the hair out of the skin until the hair just gave up growing. That's how my grandma is hairless.

And now you have awful painful methods like waxing and laser hair removal just to be.... Hairless?! It's giving pedo beauty standards. And yet hair on the head must be long, eyebrows must be thick but smooth like dolphin everywhere else. I literally hate how hair removal is forced on women.

And the bootlickers calling women lazy for not removing it fuck you too.

#radical feminists please touch #Radfem #Rudefem #Anti beauty standards #It's absolutely mental to me #I was pressured and called so many names as a kid for not shaving #Idgaf tho lol #radfems please touch