the "irreversible damage" book cover is still perhaps the most succinct demonstration of how the laserfocus the detranxiety movement has on muh poor little girls is fundamentally an outgrowth of the general terror about declining (white) birth rates and white woman fertility as a dwindling resource. like, what's actually wrong with the kitschy smiling little girl in that picture? she looks pretty content for someone "mutilated." is she missing her head, brain, heart, limbs or what? anything that would obstruct her in living out her 8 decades on this earth? hell no, it's much worse than that. it's something that actually matters. she's missing her ability to produce White Babies. you're telling me we've spent decades working to overturn roe or at least make it as difficult as possible and now that we succeeded they've found a way to weasel out of being a reproductive resource anyway? that just won't do.
like sighthounds specifically i think their artistic popularity is partly because they're cool dogs sure but i think they let people scratch an unchallenged itch to draw Artistically Glorified Emaciated-Looking Bodies in a way that's divorced enough from traditional thinspo to fly under the radar because only the most genuinely insane poster of all time would write on their blog that the artblogosphere's obsession with salukis is fatphobic-
could you please expand on that thing about people sublimating fatphobia thru sighthounds i’m so curious
zie worded it better than i did i'll find the post in a second but the bottom line is that even though tumblr users Around These Parts and like, people more broadly have learned that finding fat humans inherently less interesting or hot or what have you that skinny humans is fucked up the underlying impulse is still there so they just kind of move that around to other things. with sighthounds specifically it's more of a 1:1 translation with like, visible ribcages and shit but like the thing i was referencing on that poll was how drastically more popular the "fuck isoceles/scalene" options were than the "fuck equilateral"
80% of attempted dunks of anticiv shit on here is extremely cynically leveraging ableism accusations against someone who is like objectively More Disabled than they are and the other 20% is extremely dumb "a vote for bart is a vote for anarchy" shit 2017 was the last year that time passed
actually. that triangle poll. every day since francis said that thing about people sublimating fatphobia thru sighthounds i'm becoming more and more that-pilled