Equion

you don’t owe anyone makeup or uncomfortable clothing!

you don’t owe anyone an attempt to change your body!!

you don’t owe anyone a haircut, colour, or style you don’t want!

you don’t owe anyone a shaven face, legs, etc!!

you don’t owe anyone shaped or separated brows!!

when you choose how to present yourself, you may unfortunately have to take into account social and economic sanctions and sometimes physical violence against people who do not conform to heavily raced and gendered beauty standards.

but don’t do work you don’t want to unless you truly think it’s worth the trade off.

if you choose to make yourself look a certain way to decrease your risk of being targeted for discrimination, social ostracization, or violence, be conscious that that is what you are doing. Notice where the pressures you feel are coming from! You might even find that some of it is stuff you can avoid, leaving you a little freer to choose how you look.

and don’t take on guilt you haven’t earned.

if you decide not to put in the work to conform, you may feel anxious. you may have very reasonable concerns. but guilt isn’t fair to you, because you aren’t doing anything wrong.

you do not owe anyone beauty.

Also, this is the first time I remembered to go find his name: Matthew Broussard. I’m not doing any in-depth looking, but a quick peek at his twitter produces bits like:

“As a Jew, I love three things: bagels, summer camp, and being told what is and isn’t anti-Semitic by gentiles.”

“The politicization of climate change is a conspiracy by introverts to avoid small talk about the weather.”

mocking the Tangerine Menace, his sycophants, and racism/sexism/anti-semitism/anti-science/etc in numerous posts

“Nobody knows more about the Dunning-Kruger effect than me.”

“I bet the worst part of hell for Hitler is all the selfies he’s asked to be in.”

“Stand up has allowed me to work with people from a wide array of social, economic, racial and educational backgrounds and also 4 women.”

“Trump fears terrorist immigrants because they’d be stealing a job from white people.”

“Jews secretly sponsored a caravan of Honduran refugees secretly containing murderous Muslims. This is a racist conspiracy turducken.”

“If you think women are too sensitive, try underestimating a man’s height by more than 2 inches.”

rt’ing someone else who named these decades:

1940s - Roland 

1950s - Donny 

1960s - Ricky, also Dicky 

1970s - Charles (Pt 2)/“Chuck" 

1980s - Bradley 

1990s - Jason/“Jase" 

2000s - Charles (Pt 3)/“Chaz”, also “Chase" 

James Hetfield, 1992

James Hetfield | American Music Awards, 1993

favorite lines from every song i like: