#brides today

[desifashion]

Brides Today

Shounak Amonkar | Pranay Jaitly

#harper's bazaar bride #brides today #bollywood #bollywood2 #desi fashion #desifashion #desi couture #desi model #bridal #brides #brown model #desi models #sari #saree #editorials #jewellry #jewelry #jewellery #indian bride #bride #desi #art #ad #edited* #edits* #fashion #fashionedit* #fashionedits

[coochiequeens]

“India has one of the highest rates of honor killing and dowry deaths, where newlywed brides are tortured, burnt, sometimes even murdered on the basis of sex. For a man with caste and class privilege living so far removed from the everyday realities of Indian women, Alok Vaid-Menon sure has audacity to call himself a ‘bride,'” she (Vaishnavi Sundar) said.

An American trans activist who identifies as ‘transfeminine’ was recently featured by the Indian publication Brides Today on their digital cover, prompting criticism on social media. Alok Vaid-Menon, 31, who uses “they/them” pronouns, was interviewed and photographed for the magazine wearing clothing resembling traditional attire for women.

Vaid-Menon’s April 19 appearance in the magazine was presented as a commentary on same-sex marriage, which is currently being debated at India’s highest court.

During the full interview, Vaid-Menon was asked his thoughts on topics such as marriage and love, stating “love is about expansion, not constriction. Permission, not prohibition… I want to be a living love poem. Every day I ask myself, ‘How can I love harder?’ Love breaks through binaries—man and woman, us and them, you and me… Love doesn’t live in should, it lives in what is.”

Yet despite the platitudes, Vaid-Menon has caused concern for a past statement in which he referred to “little girls” as being “kinky” and claimed to have himself once been “a cute little girl.”

In approximately 2016, when Vaid-Menon was using the moniker Dark Matter to promote himself as a performance artist and poet, he published a disturbing statement on his views of young girls’ presumed sexuality.

In the statement, Vaid-Menon rejects the notion that little girls need to be protected from “gender/sexual deviance,” and instead claims that “little girls, like the rest of us, are complicated people.”

Vaid-Menon was writing about legislation that had been introduced in the state of North Carolina that year establishing that public restrooms remain single-sex accommodations. House Bill 2, the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, was intended to protect women and children from being exposed to men while in a state of undress. 

Vaid-Menon responded to the bill being signed into law by claiming that single-sex spaces were being upheld under a false narrative of protecting “innocent little girls” from “freaky” transgender people. 

“There are no fairy tales and princesses here. Little girls are also queer, trans, kinky, deviant, kind, mean, beautiful, ugly, tremendous, and peculiar. Your kids aren’t as straight and narrow as you think they are,” Vaid-Menon wrote.

He went on to claim that he viewed the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist as being about “a little girl … exploring her sexuality (masturbation and so on) and her own demons/meanness.”

In 2021, quotes from the post began circulating on Twitter and prompting outrage, but users found themselves getting suspended for referencing or reacting to the text. 

Conservative political pundit Lauren Witzke was suspended from Twitter for hate speech after retweeting a graphic showing Vaid-Menon’s quote, to which she commented that the views he expressed were “demonic.” Witzke was reinstated on the platform almost two years later, after Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter and offered “amnesty” on many previous suspensions.

The views expressed in Vaid-Menon’s Facebook post were criticized by the now-deceased lesbian activist YouTuber Magdalen Berns in a video she titled “Non-Binary Bullsh*t.” Berns concluded that in her opinion, his comments on girlhood made him “sound a bit like a pedo,” and remarked that “even his fans” disapproved, causing him to eventually delete the post.

The following year, in 2017, Vaid-Menon and fellow non-binary activist Jacob Tobia were profiled by Vice in an article titled “Why Can’t My Famous Gender Nonconforming Friends Get Laid.” The article was subject to widespread mockery for highlighting Vaid-Menon’s lack of success in dating, and included comments indicating that Vaid-Menon and Tobia had considered taking female hormones in order to date heterosexual men in an attempt to expand their dating pool.

Vaid-Menon has been a strong proponent for “neutralizing” women’s issues in order to make them “gender inclusive.” He has previously written about the importance of using gender neutral language when discussing abortion, pregnancy, or sex-based violence, also denouncing the term “women’s rights” as not being sufficiently welcoming to gender non-conforming people. 

In 2020, Vaid-Menon was featured by menstrual hygiene company This is L and the Phluid Project – a “gender free” clothing and lifestyle brand based in New York – in a promotional video featuring individuals of varying “gender identities” to spread the message that periods are not specific to females. Vaid-Menon had endorsed this belief previously when, in 2019, he shared an articlefrom Seventeen magazine, a publication aimed at girls and young women, titled “What Trans & Non-Binary Menstruators Should Know About Periods.”

Women’s rights campaigner and filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar blasted Vaid-Menon’s activism as “dangerous” while calling attention to the plight of women and girls in India. 

In 2020, screenings of a documentary Sundar had produced titled “But What Was She Wearing?” were cancelled in response to previous tweets she had made opposing men in women’s spaces. Her film sought to address the sexual harassment and sexual violence that women in the nation experience, juxtaposing the contrast between what laws on paper purport and the on-the-ground reality.

“India is an extremely caste-riddled society. Indian women across all castes experience profound violence at the hands of men. A large majority still live under acute poverty, devoid of basic sanitation, education, safety, or legal recourse,” Sundar told Reduxx.

“India has one of the highest rates of honor killing and dowry deaths, where newlywed brides are tortured, burnt, sometimes even murdered on the basis of sex. For a man with caste and class privilege living so far removed from the everyday realities of Indian women, Alok Vaid-Menon sure has audacity to call himself a ‘bride,'” she said.

“To import gender identity ideology as some form of progressive ticket to freedom is not just obscene, it is dangerous. In a country that still kills the female newborns and blames young girls for being raped, gender identity is the last thing we want shoved down on us while we haven’t even saved ourselves from the existing misogyny,” Sundar added.

“The only group of people profiting from this ideology are the corporations, medical and pharmaceutical industries. Men like Alok Vaid-Menon are promoters of said industries under the veneer of being progressive and inclusive.”

#India #Brides Today #Alok Vaid-Menon #Trans identified males sexualizing girls and girlhood #Womb envy #Vaishnavi Sundar Spoke the truth

[lastoneout]

I've seen these five films sweep COUNTLESS themed polls, so guess what?

No "other" option. You have to pick one. Good luck.

#the prince of egypt #howl's moving castle #pride and prejudice #the muppet christmas carol #the princess bride #I am choosing violence today

[meirimerens]

the crescent-crowned

#pathologic 2 #pathologic #herb brides #nonsexual nudity / #my art #watched tautumeitas' spodrē manu augumiņu video & #got entranced by the head pieces of plants and twigs... #so. herb brides hairstyles exercise. heb bwides sigils exercise. #yaaaaayy brides [NEGLECTING 54 OLDER WIPS] #check this out [puts the Pleiades & the Taurus constellations as seen #from Ulan-Ude on today 9:45PM (with artistic liberties with the closeness) in the bg] #this would be my portfolio tag if i had a portfolio [portfolio tag]

[spiraling-trap]

happy anniversary danbert♥️

#bride of reanimator was released today like one million years ago #reanimator #danbert #daniel cain #herbert west #bride of reanimator

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Halloween and Wei Wuxian day!

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #digital art #I'm trying to practice digital art more - initially wasn't going to draw anything for today....I simply couldn't rest until I *did*. #I'm starting to get the hang of it ! #I find traditional *much* easier especially with colouring. It still feels very...off to me. #The noise filter helps retain some of the texture I find digital lacks! More experimentation needed though. #Original draft for their costumes was 'Groom of Hanguang-jun' and 'Bride of The Yiling Lazou'. #Y'know; like those 'bride of Frankenstein' and 'Frankenstein's monster' sort of couple costumes. #Their costumes now are 'Well educated lady with land someone wants (and it's the 1600s)' and 'Werebunny'. #Every costume wwx ever puts on has a full backstory and lore to it. Even if its just a hat and fake mustache. #Okay I'm on break NOW. I will return when my long comic is done.

[soriastrider]

drew them over a princess bride screenshot for day 6 (movies, music, magazines) :)

original:

#dirkjake #dirkjakeweek24 #dirk strider #jake english #homestuck #my art #art was not artifying properly yesterday unfortunately... #ill try to see if i can finish/fix what i was doing and post it sometime later :) #but for now #princess bride dirkjake!! #somehow i hadn't drawn it yet #dirk got the silly little ponytail here bc i thought it was funny #also jake is blind today. sorry jake. didnt wanna mess with glasses on that angle lol

[theflirtmeister]

Dracula: mwa ha ha I shall RULE LONDON

Dracula after meeting four idiots and a cowboy with a gun: fuck me im going back to the castle

#dracula daily #do you think he’s writing letters to the wives #’dear brides today beloved Jonathan tried to stab me :(‘ #the brides reading the letters with a hot cup of blood: oh ho Jonathan from our stories!!

[seventh-fantasy]

do you want to be my husband or do you want to become a ghost with li xiangyi?

#莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #cdramagifs #cdramanet #asiandramanet #asiandramasource #dailyasiandramas #cheng yi #xiao shun yao #dihua #lhlgifs #jielin's edits #my posts #dfs: well i can be a ghost with lxy AND also *his* husband #his ghost husband :) #ghost groom and ghost bride <3 #obsessed with the first shot of them in bed and all you know with huahua holding to dfs a sec ago?? #disheveled. exhausted. in their undershirts #(side note. llh being able to save dfs with his neili but dfs apparently not being able to save llh with his neili......) #was supposed to get my hands on the 4k soft sub goodies before i make any more lhl gifs but today became gifing day yeahh................ #this show is so much easier to colour that it makes my fln gifs look like shit

[prismagirlart]

#bride of chucky #chiffany #chucky #child's play #tiffany valentine #it's her birthday today!!! (bride of chucky) everyone say happy birthday to her!!!

[kakuusei]

Chise and I... Elias and I... haven't sat down and talk for a while.

#mahoutsukai no yome #the ancient magus bride #mtnyedit #shoujoedit #dailyanime #dailyanimatedgifs #fyanimegifs #animationsdaily #anisource #my edit #i will make gifs today! #it's so hard to get them in the same frame!

[nouveaumoon]

♥ happy valentine's day! ♥

#animatic #curse of strahd #rahadin #strahd von zarovich #hrmm i guess i should tag the brides.. #escher #ludmilla vilisevic #anastrasya karelova #volenta popofsky #chicago #volenta is my gfs favorite so she has a little extra spice. and escher is now a player character and another friends favorite so he does to #i have a few other chicago songs i have animatics for... but i really want to work on gestalt for a long time before doing them! #i know this is not the ideal posting hour but if i dont send it out today ill cry #ill reblog in the morning or whatever!! goodnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 251

so like remember when i said i was gonna be mentally ill about utena

#day 251 #year 4 #aradia megido #jade harley #homestuck #arajade #revolutionary girl utena #so this is a wip but i dont have the time or energy to finish it today unfortunately #i do plan to finish it at a later date tho #this isnt really meant to be like #a fully realized au or anything #utena doesnt seem like the kind of thing that lends itself super well to this kind of au? #like the kind where you slot other characters into the roles or the setting of the og series #the characters that exist in it are too integral to the like. Point of the thing. to me at least #BUT there are some themes that cross over really well #into the things i find the most most most interesting about aradia and jade and the differences between them #and how they cope with an environment that attacks their agency and like. responsibility. and resisting the established narrative. and. and #and okay TBH? yeah i drew jade in the rose bride fit. but frankly i could say some shit about EITHER of them in either role. #the themes are absolutely there like theres a connection im making in my brain here i swear im just struggling to articulate it #maybe once i finish the drawing i will have finished my rgu arajade thoughts as well.

[butchniqabi]

not to come out as a vicious capitalist for the wedding industry but if you want a traditional wedding dress from a traditional wedding store...........go there At Least 3 months before your wedding..................please.

#like you dont have to do the traditional american thing of deciding every color and menu item #(im not) #but if youre going to for the love of god leave enough time to actually get it all done #a bride came in today and she hadnt decided even a color for her bridesmaids to wear and her wedding is in a month..... #babygirl. it takes a month for these dresses to be delivered to you and another month for alterations YOU HAVE NO TIME!!! #another bride's wedding was a month away and she didnt have a dress! #and then she got snippy bc we didnt have any appointments until later in the evening like ma'am. this is a weekend during our big season #we were already doing two brides per person like pleathe.....

[the-nation-of-today]

"In a few minutes, the state will have justice over the rebel known as The Prophet..."

#black veil brides #bvb #andy biersack #andy bvb #vale #vale bvb #vale 2018 #wake up #maeve.gif #tumblr user the-nation-of-today gifs the wake up mv yeah yeah fork found in kitchen #let's just all be surprised this wasn't my first gifset #this WAS gonna be a simple prison prophet gifset but #i let the hubris take over #also this made me sad we didn't get more vale lore it would've been SO GOOD #guy of all time 🖤 #valeposting

[reaninateor]

fun fact!

in bride of reanimator, herbert west quite literally compartmentalizes all of his problems by launching his mistakes into an ancient crypt through his basement wall, much like dan does with his homosexual tendencies.

#im going to be making a lot of tomb related posts today #sorry guys #its just really funny #reanimator #bride of reanimator #bride of re animator #daniel cain #danbert #dan cain #herbert west