#sorry teaboot I would usually keep this in the tags

[blueberry-ash]

My mother, who is deeply Christian and(but) also supremely autistic, once accidentally pulled aggro on an entire church's worth of women because they were so aggressively demanding she condemn my newly pierced ears. Against God's design!!! they wailed. Then how come you all shave your legs?, my mother asked.

On the bright side, I had to suffer through significantly fewer church-based social invites after that.

The idea that bodymod of all kinds from piercings and tattoos to gender-affirming care and amputations "goes against God's design" is such a fragile fucking take imo.

Like. Fuck, Brendine, you don't cut the moldy bit off a block of cheese? You don't spit out the bones when you eat fish? Do you never bake bread or cook food or chop off your hair? You just crawl around in a fig leaf bikini eating pine cones off the ground and shit in a hole?

Eve ate the apple already hon we ain't gonna undo that shit dressing like we're Children of the Corn