South Korean beauty standards take shit to the next. Fucking. Level. Women are evaluated in totality based on every minor physical detail and whether it matches the ideal to the point where their decision to go under the knife for procedures the likes of blepharoplasty (surgery on their eyelids) is a main determinant of whether they get a job. For them, shit like this is an expectation. Fuck that garbage, burn it up ladies.
In Korea you are literally REQUIRED to have a headshot with your application. Your physical appearance is a major vetting point in the interview. Applicants have literally been told to bleach their skin for jobs. Seoul is the plastic surgery capital of the world.
This is HUGE for them. Support them. Even if you love makeup, their beauty culture is TOXIC. Support this movement
Please don’t touch anyone without their consent. Use your words and if the person says they don’t need help, don’t take offence, carry on with your day.
Also note this thread shows that often grabbers get aggressive when asked not to touch a disabled person.
If anyone’s interested the paper linked here (free to read and available as a pdf) is a good read especially if you’re new to the concept of restorative justice. It’s also relatively short (15 pages.)
The topic of restorative justice as it relates to sexual assault is a difficult one. I as a victim of multiple sexual assaults have a hard time wanting anything but like… painful death for my r*pists but like, being wholly committed to abolishing the prison system and our current punitive/carceral conception of justice, you can’t just pick and choose to who and what it applies. If we are to seriously consider restorative justice as an alternative to the current system - it’s got to include sexual assault too!
but to be very blunt and very serious - it really is disturbing how you can look at fashion magazine spreads, teen magazine spreads and other media depicting teen girl trends/fashion and see how girls dressed in the 90′s, early - mid 2000′s compared to now.
i mean 1998 - 1999
2002
2003
jump ahead to 2008
vs depictions of teenagers in media / teen fashion and teen trends of the last few years (2015-2018)
and people always say “if you look at teenage girls and see sexualization, then you’re the pervert” but .. i just don’t get that line of reasoning. how can you be so naive to look at how media, modeling companies, clothing companies, etc are treating teenage girls ( some of which aren’t even teenagers - but as young as 10,11, 12 years old ) and say “nope, nothing to see here :) but if you call out the problem then YOU’RE the creep” instead of acknowledging that aforementioned companies are blatantly and intentionally producing clothing that is more and more revealing, less and less age appropriate, portraying girls in more sexualized ways as years go on, peddling these themes through social media, televised media, advertising, etc. i mean, that’s the same line of reasoning of “if you look at this picture of barack and michelle obama depicted as monkeys as being racist -then you’re actually the racist one for thinking that black people are monkeys!” when the artist of the photo is the one who blatantly and obviously was being racist.
Lol have you seen Instagram?
15y/o
14 y/o
I’ve personally known girls (underage) who actually post what would considered child porn (partially or near fully nude/provocative poses) pictures of themselves while hoards of “feminists”, minor AND adult, cheered them on. I’ve watched the same girls continue to post sexually suggestive photos while their peers/fans encouraged them and adult men made sexually explicit comments under the pictures. I usually cant tell the difference between teen and adult women anymore, especially on Instagram. And it keeps getting worse. Attention, sex appeal, a huge following and validation is everything right now. That’s all that matters and if you dare call out what’s wrong with how teenage girls are being advertised as sex objects, you’re degrading and “slut shaming” them. I just want kids to be able to be kids and seeing my 13 year old cousin snap chatting her full face of makeup is disturbing enough
when i say pedophile culture this is exactly what im referring to, its sick and twisted. theyre children that look like adults and under no circumstance should that be okay. i have so much fear for this generation of girls and im scared sick of how its going to just keep getting worse.
this is all valid and I’m tired of being shamed because I think it’s inappropriate for an 11 year old to go out in short shorts and a crop top
Sexualizing teens is not OK, it’s revolting and we should fight it
Also there is a difference between “this child wants to wear a spaghetti strap dress and you shouldn’t send her home from school because of it” and “adults designing an ad of young girls in bikinis and a face full of makeup with the phrase ‘pop it’ is an acceptable and appropriate image”
An individual kid’s choices should not be sexualized, but grown adults making entire industries around marketing sex and insecurity to kids is reprehensible.
Though I’ll say this: shorts and a crop top on an 11yo can look completely innocent and cute - if it’s DESIGNED to look innocent. I know, I have pictures of myself at 9, 10, 11 wearing shit like that in the early/mid 90s. If it’s designed to look adult/sexy, then you’re gonna start running into issues like this. And that’s the problem - it’s not 2 piece swimsuits or tops that show some tummy, it’s that they’re designed and marketed to make it “sexy” instead of “a fun thing to wear that is for a fucking CHILD”
They also used to be posed in playful (genuinely playful as in goofing around) poses and now they are posed the same as actual adult Women.
I wish kids still got a childhood, but especially girls.
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
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An individual kid’s choices should not be sexualized, but grown adults making entire industries around marketing sex and insecurity to kids is reprehensible.”
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