Jennifer Atilemile by Bailey Rebecca Roberts for Numero Netherlands Magazine September 2023
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Addendum to this post:
"...though I think so far "you gotta work out to be a real man" has gotten less buy-in from men than "you gotta be slim to be a desirable woman" has gotten from women because gender roles mostly get men through avenues other than telling them they have an obligation to make themselves physically beautiful..."
I really should have put something in that statement about how our society cultivates anxiety about personal appearance in women specifically by teaching them to feel obligated to conform to an artificially narrow idea of physical beauty, and insofar as people try to cultivate the same anxiety in men that works the same way (just with a different artificially narrow beauty standard).
(I live in California so yeah the "our society" here is USA-centric, things might work differently where you live, IDK).
Yes, the way women are encouraged to feel obligated to be decorative is itself shitty and I 100% support the right of women (and people in general) to exist in public without being pretty. But also I think "you gotta be slim to be a desirable woman" is basically a lie, e.g. my attraction to women is definitely not exclusively to thin women (I'm strongly attracted to moderately chubby women, i.e. Jennifer Atilemile's body type, and in general most women are physically attractive to me to some extent) and based on, like, the entire existence of "thick" as a complimentary term, I suspect lots of other men have an attraction pattern similar to mine. And I've seen discourse about what sort of men women are attracted to that indicates preference for muscular men is very much not universal among women.
I mean, this is extremely basic body-positivity stuff and probably nothing new to you but I guess I just wanted to make my thoughts and feelings about this known to the regular readers of my tumblr.
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Model Jennifer Atilemile Asks: What Happened to Size Diversity in Fashion?
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Jennifer Atilemile by Derek Kettela for Sports Illustrated 2023
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Jennifer Atilemile at Tommy X Zendaya AW 19
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