cassadeetalks replied to your post “if you're so into social justice why are your faves always skinny and...”
"IF YOU'RE SO INTO SJ WHY DO YOU STILL HATE PARTS OF YOURSELF AND IDEALIZE WHAT YOU WERE TOLD YOU SHOULD BE" GO FUCK YOURSELF ANON SOME OF US ARE ACTUALLY BROWN ACTUALLY A DIFFERENT SIZE AND WISHING WE LOOKED DIFFERENT /EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY/
i don't even have more 2 say to this bc this is such a perfect response but
it's kind of like i took this class about writing from the perspective of marginalized voices and the professor was telling us how often writers who come from communities that are oppressed in the real world write characters from their communities who lack flaws / humanity / striving because they feel the need to put up a front to show how strong and tough and resilient and great they are whereas people from the dominant can write characters who have their uglinesses more exposedÂ
i feel like it's like that like we're constantly told that we would be better if we looked a certain way and so now we can't help idealize it