#body normativity

[historicalbeauties]

“Our bodies are instruments for our own personal use, experience, and benefit - not ornaments to be admired.”

Lexie and Lindsay Kite

#fat pride #body positivity #body normativity #body neutrality #body acceptance

[blogrts]

are you hungry baby?

#latina girl #body art #me #body normativity #nature

[tapakah0]

#Now I go die #I've laughed out my month norm #Goodbye #You may take my ears I won't resist pfffht #All other parts of the bodies can sell on the black market #They will be pretty cheap anyway PFFHT #Alcor baby... I feel like he will have his own arc... #Augh brain stupid #tapadoodles #marble sky fanart #I guess #*lies down* #*dead*

[balkanradfem]

#comic #feminism #radical feminism #male dominated media #male perspective #isolating women from their own perspective #making women feel isolated for having a normal way of acting and thinking #radfem #male fantasies #male brainrot #male pornified versions of women #being broadcast as the norm #when its anything but #and women being forced to play it feel uncomfrotable and isolated from their own bodies and minds as well #male bs #written by a man disease

[sequestering]

Disney's ESPN moves into US sports betting with $2bn Penn Entertainment deal by Sara Germano (Financial Times) | All-in on sports betting, Disney is making ESPN earn its keep by Diego Lasarte (Quartz) | Wayne Gretzky and Connor McDavid Star in Newest BetMGM Television Spot (BetMGM) | BetMGM | Gambling ads and the NHL: should Gretzky and McDavid do better? by Colin Horgan (The Guardian) | The Washington Capitals | Hockey Night in Canada wants to know why you're not gambling by Chris Selley (National Post) | The dark side of the US sports betting boom by Oliver Barnes (Financial Times) | Sports Interaction: East vs West (Sports Interaction) | Gambling ads are changing how we view hockey by Cathal Kelly (Globe and Mail)

#little scrapbooking exercise here #it interests me!! it's very on theme #for how the norms in the sports world in particular #have changed beyond all recognition in only ten or so years #i wonder how that kind of thing disorients a person #burying the bodies #two common values #ficspo

[cmmdrkote]

checking in on the twitter stans during Chapter 12 of @goddammitjim's The Truth That Once Was Spoken...they're certainly going through it

#codywan #commander cody #obi wan kenobi #star wars #sw fanart #my art #my post #the cody edit is 90's tem face pasted onto norm lewis' body with some touch ups and the cityscape is a stock photo #i edited in the fire escape drew in cody and drew more lights in the background to cover gaps #long post

[hazel2468]

I know I've said something similar before but like.

People are all "uwu we shouldn't let kids do hormone blockers or have surgeries because children can't consent to that!" and like. Aside from the fact that no one is doing gender affirming procedures on kids.

I would be willing to bet my left tit that these are the EXACT same fucks who would have given me shit from middle to high school and into college about getting laser hair removal, about my voice change from a soprano to an alto (not severe but noticeable, as I was a singer), who said I should amputate my healthy stomach so I could be more thin and "ladylike", who gave me ENDLESS shit for my body hair, including facial hair, who demanded I shave and pluck and squeeze myself into clothes and an image that didn't fit me and who ENCOURAGED me to take medications and have procedures that would permanently alter (and in the case of weight loss surgery? Damage, most likely) my body to fit what THEY thought I should be.

All because I have PCOS. My body is not what people expect of a cis woman's body.

Gee. It's almost like it has nothing to do with kids not consenting, and EVERYTHING to do with these chucklefucks wanting to deny trans kids access to life-saving care AND wanting to force intersex kids into medical treatment that they, by their own logic, cannot consent to.

But that's all fine when they're making us intersex folks "normal", huh?

#queer #trans #intersex #yeah the more I learn about PCOS and being intersex #the more parts of my own experience make a lot of sense #and the more fucking ANGRY i get about it #like I am someone who is actively transitioning to have a non-normative body #and someone who also has ALWAYS had a non-normative body in a lot of ways #and im just #a little absolutely fucking livid #transphobia #exorsexism #fucking FUCK #and like I'm not cis anymore #but i fucking WAS i was a girl for most of my life #and this shit impacted me a lot more than I thought in hindsight

[random-lil-illing]

decided to redesign ink sammy. i love it when people design him as a sheep but in my heart he will always be a sheep-dog

he definitely gave himself top surgery the second he turned to ink... he couldnt wear shirts anymore so he had to improvise (the scar on his stomach is from tearing his uterus/unecessary organs out)

he wears a bendy necklace like christian people wear crosses/jewish people the star of david

TW for disturbing headcanon under the cut (insanity-influenced body modification)

okay so i said i based him off of a DOG, not a sheep - so why does he have hooves like bendy?

okay well basically we know hes insane and a bendy worshipper, and he saw his 'lord' has hooves like a sheep/goat. now, at the time he had dog legs/paws, but he wanted to appreciate/be closer to his lord, so he cut his paws off and shoved wooden planks into the cut-off areas to imitate hooves. obviously they didnt hold very well, so he just wrapped bandages around them. he also trained/changed the general form of his legs by breaking the bones in the and then when he put splints on them, he re-arranged the bones to look a small bit more like ink bendy's legs. as you can imagine the planks dig into exposed flesh/bone so hes in horrible pain whenever he walks. the consequences of being a crazy cartoon cultist

also i dont think i ever explained his face scars?? theyre from ink bendy. most of his scars are (except the top surgery/hysteroctomy scars and the two little scars on his shoulders. those are from himself and tom boris respectively)

#norm dont look #my art #art #digital art #finished art #fanart #batim #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival fanart #bendy and the ink machine fanart #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #batim fanart #batim sammy #sammy lawrence #sammy lawrence fanart #tw body modification #tw insanity #tw badly done/non-ethical medical procedures #he regretted doing that to his legs SO much when he regained his memories/became more sane #due to the constant pain hes in hes actually really slow while walking #he handmade himself crutches when the pain is REALLY bad #but he hates using them because 'it's a dishonor to his lord' #hid logic is that if bendy can walk normally with goat legs so can he #sometimes when he gets bad pain flares while his crutches arent with him he just starts crawling army style #anyway #enjoy the burnt food

[yeetlegay]

Not for nothing, the representation of Porsche’s bisexuality means a lot to me as a bi person who didn’t figure out my identity until my early 20s. The journey that he goes through in the first half of the show, from a presumed straight man to a bisexual man in love with another man, is written and acted with so much empathy and grace. Porsche’s feelings about his identity and presentation of self are allowed to be confused, hesitant, and complicated without him being homophobic or misogynistic. The result is a more subtle arc of self-discovery, but such an important one. Porsche may not have deep-rooted internal prejudices but he still exists within oppressive structures that shape all our lives whether we want them to or not. Even though he doesn’t deny or dislike his feelings for Kinn, he does quietly struggle sometimes with the discomfort of being queer in a world that sees queer as “other.”

I think part of why this hits so hard is Apo himself. Now I don’t really follow the actors very closely and I try hard to separate the art from the artist, so I don’t want to place too much weight on this. But I do think Apo really brings a particular level of empathy and nuance to Porsche’s identity that deserves appreciation. Apo has spoken a number of times about how much he struggled with homophobic treatment in the Thai film/TV industry through the course of his career. He was often asked invasive questions about his sexuality, made fun of for the way he dresses and presents himself, and demeaned for being feminine or not masculine enough. It seems to have been a key factor in his decision to leave the industry (and even Thailand) entirely.

To be clear, he’s never made any public statement about his sexuality or gender identity, and it’s no one’s business to presume or ask about how he identifies. The problem was that, regardless of how he actually identified, homophobia had a big impact on him personally and professionally. Homophobia (along with all other forms of hate and violence) doesn’t hurt just queer people—it hurts everyone, because it confines and regulates people’s lives/bodies, and punishes deviations, big and small, from the norm.

Apo has some pretty incredible gender vibes to be honest. Something about his mannerisms, his face, his fashion choices, his presentation, just strikes keen envy in my nonbinary bisexual heart lol. And he brings that nuance into Porsche’s character so beautifully. Porsche gets to be tender as he is tough, someone who cares for his loved ones and shows affection without being demeaned for it. He’s allowed to be this strong, tall, muscular guy without it being prescriptive of his internal feelings and personality and how he presents in his voice and mannerisms. No one (least of all him) is policing his body and gender in the way queer people, particularly queer men, so often deal with. He gets to just be.

The freedom in that, for me at least, feels like a revelation. I feel loved when I watch Porsche, because his journey as a bisexual man isn’t rooted in his own repression or external prejudice. Even when he identified as straight, he didn’t behave or present in a way that was engineered to convey heterosexuality or even masculinity. He was already comfortable in his skin, and figuring out his sexuality was more of an internal journey than one centered on his body and how the world perceives it.

Obviously there’s nothing wrong with identity crises/questions/discoveries that do involve repression or homophobia (mine certainly does, thanks Catholic school 🙃). But I think it’s really neat that Porsche’s arc doesn’t, because it brings up questions that often get buried under the avalanche of homophobic/misogynistic/transphobic shit that unfortunately we so often have to wade through to come to our own queer identities. And that’s why I mentioned Apo’s experience, because I really think that as someone who’s had such a hard time in the industry in the past—precisely because he does step outside rigid gender norms—he really gets how homophobia shapes a person’s understanding of their own body. And consciously or unconsciously, he created in Porsche a character who could be free, for fucking once, of that heavy weight around his neck.

So basically, I hope he knows how much that means to a lot of people, not just me. And I hope that playing Porsche has given him some amount of comfort or healing or validation. He gave homophobia and misogyny a massive middle finger through this character, and I hope that and his continued outspokenness about his experience make everyone think twice before policing people’s gender and bodies.

#kinnporsche #why don’t queue stay #apo nattawin #it also strikes me as especially ironic that one of the early discourse vultures we had to bat away from the fandom was bitching #about Porsche and Kinn not being ‘visibly queer enough’ bc they’re ‘masculine’ and ‘straight-presenting’ and Porsche fucks women #just the absolute worst most garbage take (from a queer person!) policing the fuck out of queer men and their bodies right out the gate #while Porsche to me has a veritable OCEAN worth of nuance #and actively bucks against cishet normative ideas about masculinity and queer men #imagine being that fucking focused on prescribing what queerness SHOULD look like instead of seeing what queerness CAN and DOES look like #anyway I fucking love Porsche I love his bisexuality and I fucking love his gender #and I fucking love Apo for giving him to us

[carmelasoprano]

Bebe Neuwirth as Avis DeVoto in episode 2x07 of Julia, "Shrimp and Grits"

#bebe neuwirth #avis devoto #julia hbo #julia #edit:bebeneuwirth #edit:julia #edit:avisdevoto #* #` #i dearly love looking at this beautiful woman's face #especially as i take breaks from reading about the ubiquity of postfeminist approaches to successful ageing in celebrity culture #as something to be 'managed' so that the body must be constantly surveilled for fear of deviating from #narrow conceptions of normative feminine beauty defined by youthfulness #raise a glass to every woman in the entertainment industry not dyeing her hair‚ going under the knife‚ or being injected with botox #and pour one out for every woman in the entertainment industry who is in an effort to make the most out of an impossible situation that #would limit her financial mobility and career opportunities if she didn't fall into line! #hear‚ hear #i will say though that i think as many women who can afford not to undergo cosmetic surgery as a 'solution' to aging shouldn't #because those who have prestigious enough careers (think meryl streep) can continue to land rolls anyway #and i think more women could leverage their success without resorting to such means #rant over i guess

[blogrts]

Hi babys

#carnaval #brazilian #latina girl #me #body normativity

[archersartcorner]

A sketch from a few days ago, thought of cleaning it up and adding color but tbh I like the sketchy look of it? Anyway, Skippey n Zortchey, of the Runaway Alien Royalty Coalition lmao

#my art #described #dimension 20 #a starstruck odyssey #skip takamori #princeps zortch #god they have so much in common I wish we’d seen em interact more hwvdjsbssj #LITERALLY aliens 🤝 royalty 🤝 huge royal burden 🤝 DONT WANT IT 🤝 naive lil dudes 🤝 just wanna do their own stuff #when I think of like. norm & Skip post-canon stuff zortch & Skip are besties. out of Norman’s body Skip is either with norm or zortch #esp with zortch being psychic and able to communicate more easily with Skip due to that. but also because That’s His Frend #lil slug skip give zortch a Smoochey #zortch will sometimes just hide skip in their hat. norm comes in like ‘hey zortch have you seen skip?’ ‘…….. nooooooo :3’ and like. #norm knows LMAO but he can see they’re both havin fun so he just. ‘well okay if you see him let me know?’ ‘okaaaay I will hehe’ #meanwhile internally ‘SKIP WE FUCKIN GOT HIM’ ‘HE HAS NO IDEA HES GONNA BE SO SHOCKED LMAO’ #ANYWAY they r friends. maybe more even porhaps 🤔

[dragongirlbunny]

also i feel like a lot of people refuse to come to terms that bodily autonomy means that sometimes people will make decisions that you personally do not agree with, and the answer to that is to get over it because its not your body, not by attempting to ban anything you dont like

#like regarding body hair again; i fully agree that the way society treats it is bullshit #but also you cannot somehow draw a line between 'People Who Remove Body Hair For Good Reasons' #and 'People Who Remove Body Hair For Bad Reasons' #people getting body hair removed for whatever reason and with whatever method are neither the source of nor perpetuators of beauty norms

[citruscore]

Nark or Oakworthy

THE most cringefail boys in the world

#dndads #normal oak #hermie the unworthy #oakworthy #they would both love valentines day i know it #hermie would love the drama the pageantry the romance #norm would treat it as like a spirit week day. he is going to offer valentines for the whole student body and no one is going to take one

[marzipanandminutiae]

me: it kind of annoys me that the new Barbie trailer claims Barbie was the first non-baby doll for children. here are some examples of ancient lady dolls, presented in a Ha Ha Funney tone

everyone in the notes: OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST IT’S JUST A BARBIE MOVIE CALM DOWN GET A JOB NOBODY’S GOING TO BELIEVE IT ANYWAY!!!!! YOU’RE DUMB AND AWFUL AND NO-ONE CARES

(a bunch of other people in the notes: it’s true though/she was the most popular so she’s the only one that counts/wait there were adult-shaped dolls before Barbie? where?)

#dolls #personal #seriously I've gotten more vitriol for [checks notes] daring to criticize the Barbie movie than literally anything else I've done on here #'nobody's going to believe it' eh? scroll down my guy #mattel has been playing us all like a fiddle about this for decades #(fun fact: they also didn't invent dolls that can change gender with their clothes and hairstyles AKA Creatable World) #(that was almost all dolls until...oh hey the 1950s!!!! what a coincidence!!!! not like Mattel helped create a norm- gendered doll bodies) #(and now wants back pats for challenging it!!!!!)