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blujayonthewing · 1 year ago

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you know. it is genuinely insane that we've somehow ended up in a culture that treats the human body as inextricably tied to sex and therefore filled with sin, and also, if it's not very beautiful, unspeakably gross and a crime to inflict the sight of upon others, and then this same culture turns around and says 'okay if you wanna go swimming you gotta get pretty much naked :)'

#lookin up swimsuit refs and like. how did we collectively get so fucking weird about bodies and also land on swimsuits that look like that #like! it's no wonder people get so anxious about going to the beach!!#your body is a SIN and also-- statistically speaking-- probably also DISGUSTING TO BEHOLD. enjoy swimsuit shopping idiot #I... have a weird glitch in my brain that turns off body self consciousness if I'm swimming #which is great news because I definitely fall under 'your body is hideous and making other people see it is Bad of you' by modern standards #but a lot of people... a LOT of people. A LOT of people. feel uncomfortable about being seen in revealing and formfitting non-clothes #and no fucking wonder!! a woman in a bikini is basically naked and there's nothing that comes under scrutiny like a woman's body #we're forced into this stupid awful catch-22 of social pressures and norms that we didn't even ASK FOR #how did this HAPPEN!! it's fucking EVIL

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