U can tell that skincare culture is makeup culture disguised bc not a single syllable of it is directed at men, the crustiest people on this earth
the fucked up thing is, when 12 yr old girls with perfect child skin but maybe a puberty zit or two see those commercials telling them that even slightly flawed skin is a problem to be aggressively fixed and start scrubbing the shit out of their face with high pH drugstore cleansers and astringent toners, they destroy their skins natural moisture barrier and make their skin more permeable to bacteria which can actually CAUSE acne, when creates an endless cycle of spending where they spend the rest of their lives desperately trying to fix the problems that the products caused in the first place
foreplay is a heteronormative, patriarchal concept
it is founded on the idea that any sexual contact other then a penis entering a vagina is not sex but something meant to lead up to it
the idea that doing anything to a vagina-owner other than pounding them with your dick is optional and not all that important
the idea that, if a woman does sexual things with you that don’t include your penis going into her, and she decides to not let you put your penis into her, she is a tease because that was all just foreplay, meant to lead up to the “feature event”
fore | play – the real “play” is a cis man inserting his penis in a cis woman – anything else is deviant, optional or not really sex
the concept of foreplay delegitimizes sex queer people have and the kinds of sexual contact studies show women enjoy most. it centers the cis heterosexual man’s pleasure over everyone else’s, reducing any other sexual contact to an unimportant optional side quest or deviant predilection. it even reaffirms rape culture, framing other sexual contact between men and women as but an “introduction” to the “inevitable” event of a penis entering a vagina—implying a priori consent.
the concept of foreplay directly benefits straight cis men to the detriment of everyone else.
This was one of my most controversial posts–bested perhaps only by my hot take that men’s obsession with completely clean shaven vaginas is motivated by latent pedophilia lol
Yall can be edgy and talk about how much you hate tumblr all you want but I will be real chief I value my undeserved clout on here and its also the only place that shoots all my niche interests directly into my brain at the speed of light
The idea behind Tumblr, namely the dashboard, how posts and reblogs work (kinda like mini-threads that stream endlessly onto your dash), and the tagging system, is actually superb and I have yet to find another social media site on par with this format. Hence why we all stay here.
But then there’s also the incompetent staff and the extreme cultural madness of the website, hence why we hate it despite staying.
