Breast Ironing Is Not Talked About As Much As Is Should Be And Is As Much A Pressing Feminist Issue As

breast ironing is not talked about as much as is should be and is as much a pressing feminist issue as fgm. There are 3.8 million woman around the world, largely in Africa, affected by this, but it remains to be one of the most underreported gender-based crimes.

the female form is consistently mutilated and beaten and bastardized and violated because it IS the female form.

there are women who do this to their children or their sisters or people that they know to prepubescent children in order to preserve their youthfulness, to prevent dishonor, to prevent rape, and to prevent male attention; all of these reasons once again “medicalizing,” misogyny and placing the burden it is to be oppressed by men upon women. It has been stated that families will pursue breast ironing to ensure that their female child can have an education as if it’s a dichotomy. To have breasts or to be educated.

https://aho.org/fact-sheets/breast-ironing-fact-sheet/

i really do wonder if the physicality gap between men and women would be greatly reduced if women were not undergoing intense trauma, starvation and abuse everywhere for millennia. i think our physicality as women would greatly improve and even how our genes are expressed would change. younger girls of today are already vastly outperforming their predecessors in strength and speed because of better nutrition. i'm factoring this into my worldbuilding, but i wish i could be alive to see what would happen to the female race once liberated from oppression.

It is a dangerous and ill informed idea to conceptualize the men who are incels/red pills/alt right/rape threat senders/online-vile-woman-haters as neckbeard losers who live in their parents basement who's only interaction with women is their waifu body pillow.

This may be true for some of them.

But the rest are our peers. They're teachers, and hiring staff, and HR, and managers. They are healthcare workers, and therapists, and handymen, and bartenders. They're policeman, and politicians, and judges, and policy makers.

Their lives are not without direct impact on our own. They exist among us, and their decisions inform our opportunities, environment, and quality of life.

These men are not outliers, and they deserve our full criticism and concern.

Local PSA: invisible disability does NOT mean you can live your life like a "normal person" invisible disability meant that if a stranger looks at you in public they wouldn't know what's going on.

Like if a wheelchair user were to decide to run into a corner store to grab a candy bar because they know that their legs can last that long without, the cashier wouldn't know.

Or someone with "mild" scoliosis walking upright through their shoulder leans slightly to the left. Maybe they just have bad posture. The lady in the next isle thinks to herself.

The person with EDS or POTS or whatever sort of condition wearing compression gloves out and about. Perhaps it's a fashion statement?

Or what about the people with intestinal issues? They can look like "normal people" too.

You never know what someone is going through.

You never know what they might need to survive or if they're on the edge of a flare up or even if they are currently going through one just by one look.

I think both disabled and non disabled need to realize this. You're not "no longer disabled" because you can "live without" disability aids. They're there to help you. To make your life easier. If living without a cane is going to make it more likely you'll fall over and hurt yourself, use the cane.

If you need to sit down to do dishes or cut vegetables because you need to save your legs for taking out the trash, sit down.

If you need a shower chair because you don't know if you'll pass out, use the shower chair.

People are going to judge you regardless for multiple reasons out of your control.

I'd rather they judge you while you're being safe.

You don't need to struggle to be "normal."

You can just be you.

However that looks for you.

Use your disability aids.

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop