I'm mad at instagram, and my government, for specifically censoring only womens bodies. It's an act of war against women. No wonder so many women want to take testosterone and be a man so they can like, have rights. And be treated like... people? Social media is a sausage fest now. It feels like the religious right that took over Turkey, where men could be gay in public and one night stands were encouraged at hostels, but women had to be covered from head to toe unless we wanted to be stared down hostiley by the apparently crazy horny straight men of the streets of Istanbul who couldn't be held accountable for their behavior against women. The same discomfort and fear I felt there, I feel here now too. Shame on the men who police women's bodies instead of themselves!
When I was a kid, my mom walked around the house fully nude all the time. I'm naturally a bit more modest but I'm glad she wasn't, because it made me feel secure in my own female body. I had no restrictions placed on me about how much or how little to wear, and my parents also didn't censor nudity or sex scenes from me in movies, therefore I had no reason to rebel and was a good kid.
I've met too many people who were molested as children, who had parents who sheltered and restricted them so much that they developed no sense of intuition and were prone to following orders from people who they thought they could trust. Not a single one of these molested or raped people think censoring women's bodies is a good solution.
Also, as a person with an art degree and experience in the art world, the restriction on nudity feels like an attack on what little culture we have left. How do we teach art history if more than half of it is censored?
And why is it that only the female body is "bad"?
(Why is the female body bad???)
Is our entire country being led by closeted gay men who weren't educated beyond high school? Honestly... It's all so infantile.
10:05 a.m. - 2020-12-21