what's the sitch

𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔶 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔤

Women on social media who hold feminist and otherwise justice-centered views will make posts where their morals suddenly leave their bodies under the guise of caring for other women's well-being when it comes to veganism. There are far too many repeating the same fallacies that women only become vegans to eat less so as to become thin, hide disordered eating, and are just trying to be "weak, malnourished martyrs" who never get to enjoy food.

I've been thinking about how as part of my values I do want to be very conscious about the images that I share or post of women on social media. While reports of tumblr's death are greatly exaggerated, it is still social media. Sexualized images of women, even if they're by way of self-objectification, have long been proven to be detrimental to the mental health and self-esteem of women and young girls. I think this should doubly apply to feminist blogs. Pictures of women wearing makeup, women in sexualized clothing—including crop tops, bikinis, and leotards are shared by women who otherwise maintain blogs dedicated to posting about feminism. Teen girls are on this site and even if they're not following us they could still end up on your blog after reading your posts. I don't see how you wouldn't believe these images don’t undermine any feminist message you share.

I’m always intrigued by the shamelessness of the posts nonvegans make about how the only vegan they’ll support is the one that will eat animal products just to get along and not cause a fuss, buys secondhand leather and wool (the only materials in existence besides plastic of course), and is willing not to be, or seem, too committed towards animal liberation. Sometimes there will be people who respond and claim that they're the described vegan in question and that they don't behave like the "preachy vegans."

Veganism is one of the only forms of political activism that people treat as if you're being a proselytizing, militant, asshole if you actually stand by your principles and speak up for and about animal rights, cruelty, and exploitation (and sometimes if you even just casually mention you're vegan) because they don't want to have to think about what they're participating in. People want to disparage veganism and vegans for being against meat-eating as if the mass cruelty of the animal agriculture industry isn't against a vegan's ethics and their meat just falls from the sky. You don't want to think about the cruelty needed to treat animals as products but instead want to encourage the continued funding of the cruelty while spreading misinformation, disinformation, and outright hostility towards vegans because we care about animals as other sentient beings and followed that to the conclusion that they shouldn't be slaughtered, experimented on, or used for entertainment.

I've been thinking of making a letterboxd to keep up with the horror movies I watch but I'm not sure I would use it. In the meantime, I need to give Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror a rewatch and reread Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films.

A lot of people on social media love to call others puritans and claim they're scared of sex and being horny when in reality the way they talk about sex is so deeply unsexy and unarousing. People think others have to respect and remain uncritical about what makes them horny and that's just simply not the case.