if you go around saying things like,
“REAL women have curves!”
“I like girls better WITHOUT makeup!”
“Women who wax down there aren’t as sexy!”
“I actually prefer small boobs!”
“Women who get plastic surgery are so fake!”
When you doing this, you are literally just replacing one societal requirement for women to be worthy of desire with another, personalized one. It’s fine to have turn ons and turn offs. We all have them. But don’t announce them like you’re some revolutionary and women are now supposed to have an epiphany. Women aren’t suddenly going, “OH WOW GOOD THING YOU SAID THAT OR ELSE I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN HOW TO BE DESIRABLE.”
The fact that you feel the need to make a judgement on women’s beauty practices is distinctly anti-feminist, because you’re assuming that women need or want your input on how they groom or present themselves. We don’t need your approval. We don’t care about what you think is “cute”. We are going to do what is right for us. If that means waxing, getting a nose job, wearing makeup, then that’s what we’re going to do. If it means none of those things, that is what we are going to do. If you really want to be an ally to feminism, stop telling women that how they want to look is wrong.
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