Anger
I could write about what's been eating at me for the last two and a half weeks, but I probably couldn't lay it out in a suitably objective and detached manner. So whatever. So let's write angrily about something completely unrelated. What the fuck do I care.
Vizzzibility is a Tumblr blog the aim of which is "increasing the visibility of every kind of body". Its statement reads:Vizzzibility started off as a self-portrait project for Molly’s senior thesis project at Maryland Institute College of Art, but it quickly became apparent that visibility is needed for all bodies. In order for the project to be successful, it would need to include many other bodies, not just one.
We are all constantly inundated with bodies that show an ideal of beauty that barely anyone matches up to: thin, white, cisgender, clear skin, no body hair, relaxed hair, as Westernized as possible. While there is nothing inherently wrong with fitting those descriptors, those images surround us so much that it is really easy to forget that other things are beautiful, too.
The purpose of this blog is to increase visibility for all bodies as much as we can. Every single person who has been pictured here in the past, and every person who will be pictured in the future, is beautiful, valid, and important.
Please feel free to submit your own photos. You belong here.
And it all sounds kinda nice because yeah, wouldn't it be lovely if everyone could find validation in their life. But looking at the pictures, what I personally hear is "YEAH SHOW THOSE TITS AND THAT ASS!". I can appreciate that women who are comfortable with their bodies may want to wear lycra mini skirts and tops that show a yard of cleavage, but I don't like the implication that regardless of her race or size or sexual orientation, anyone is "beautiful, valid, and important" as long as there's skin showing. The blog should be about different kinds of beauty, and what it actually show-cases most of the time is that even plus-sized women and women of color and disabled women and gay women still have tits and are able to get naked.
I'm having a bad day, but I rather doubt that I'd respond very differently if I didn't.
Vizzzibility is a Tumblr blog the aim of which is "increasing the visibility of every kind of body". Its statement reads:Vizzzibility started off as a self-portrait project for Molly’s senior thesis project at Maryland Institute College of Art, but it quickly became apparent that visibility is needed for all bodies. In order for the project to be successful, it would need to include many other bodies, not just one.
We are all constantly inundated with bodies that show an ideal of beauty that barely anyone matches up to: thin, white, cisgender, clear skin, no body hair, relaxed hair, as Westernized as possible. While there is nothing inherently wrong with fitting those descriptors, those images surround us so much that it is really easy to forget that other things are beautiful, too.
The purpose of this blog is to increase visibility for all bodies as much as we can. Every single person who has been pictured here in the past, and every person who will be pictured in the future, is beautiful, valid, and important.
Please feel free to submit your own photos. You belong here.
And it all sounds kinda nice because yeah, wouldn't it be lovely if everyone could find validation in their life. But looking at the pictures, what I personally hear is "YEAH SHOW THOSE TITS AND THAT ASS!". I can appreciate that women who are comfortable with their bodies may want to wear lycra mini skirts and tops that show a yard of cleavage, but I don't like the implication that regardless of her race or size or sexual orientation, anyone is "beautiful, valid, and important" as long as there's skin showing. The blog should be about different kinds of beauty, and what it actually show-cases most of the time is that even plus-sized women and women of color and disabled women and gay women still have tits and are able to get naked.
I'm having a bad day, but I rather doubt that I'd respond very differently if I didn't.