So wild that instead of guidelines online moving towards no kind of body being considered inherently sexual and inappropriate we’ve gone onto like explicitly admitting that it’s the association of a body w womanhood that makes it inappropriate and dirty
Historical paintings of women, fully clothed are now “explicit,” okay
It’s because of their tantalizing locked gaze with the viewer which amounts to a sexual challenge rather than them demurely looking down or into the middle distance or towards a small book on the flowers of southern France
ICYMI: fuck Apple for pushing purity culture with an all or nothing ultimatum, and if course fuck @staff for kowtowing to this pressure in the most heavy-handed inane manner possible
Ysabel Gerrard, a lecturer in the UK’s University of Sheffield specializing in social media and society: “In particular, it feels like a big middle finger to women, to sex workers, and to queer kids. It’s saying, ‘We don’t want you here.’”
About sums it up.
@staff this is your user base. Good luck with your purity purge, you’re alienating the foundation of this platform