words said by the eyes, hands, and body

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Your body is your own. Body hair and facial hair do not become "unhygienic" or harm anyone, just because they belong to a woman instead of a man.

Every woman who doesn't do the hair removal demanded of her is participating in staking the feminist claim that women's bodies exist for ourselves, not to fulfill the aesthetic preferences of people with power over us.

I'm grateful to every woman I ever knew who showed me that it's possible to just stop removing body hair and (for many women in many situations) it's literally fine. No one in my life even comments on my pit hair or leg hair, except for a kid once in awhile, which gives me the chance to say things like "Most grownups grow hair there! Some grownups remove it, but I don't want to."

I'm also grateful to the transfeminists who taught me to see the gender role enforcement in the demand that women have no facial hair.

Even when the removal of certain hair feels necessary for safety from harassment or abuse, understanding that the stigma against female facial & body hair is misogynistic (and frequently specifically transmisogynistic and racist) can make it easier to identify the structural problem, instead of buying into the propaganda that there's something fundamentally wrong with your body if you grow this hair at all.

You have every right to decide what purely cosmetic work you will spend time, money, and planning on, and what isn't worth doing. Regardless of what you decide, you should have the right to live free of harassment, discrimination, and other forms of body policing. So should everyone else.

JAAFAR JACKSON as MICHAEL JACKSON Performing 'Human Nature'

This morning I got to watch a little ovenbird bathing and drinking among the mossy rocks near the woodland spring.

you can find michael incredibly attractive as he is, (or was, fml this made me well up a bit) but why are we reposting a photo of him that is completely edited and made up? When we could just be reposting beautiful REAL images of him throughout his life?

we need to keep his legacy safe, and all of his photos whether taken professionally or by him, or home/childhood photos etc are important to the documentation of him and his career.

i fear people are saving and getting attached to images of him that aren't even real and it makes me so sad :'( He would not have liked this - its why he hated the press, they used to doctor and edit his images all the time. lets be better than that!!!

annyyyywayssss gnight all i AM TIRED!!!

I was looking up facts about Cormorants to find a title for this and found out about the liver bird a mythological creature from liverpool that is literally just a cormorant which I find kinda funny