My first post in this topic I think - I'm a bit nervous about jumping into the debate, I have to admit... But this bothered me so much when I read it this morning, and made me wonder what people here think about it:
The Guardian - Free the nipple: Facebook and Instagram told to end ban on bare breasts
I wanted to think that this was a good thing, removing the distinction/discrimination between men's nipples being "normal" and women's nipples being sexualised across the board, even when they're clearly not (most obviously when being used for the biological purpose, i.e. breastfeeding). But instead the whole thing is about expression of trans and non-binary identities, and this person seems to be tying themselves in knots to avoid even mentioning women as a category that are affected by it:
“It sounds so frivolous to a lot of people to talk about nipples, but if you think about the ways that governments around the world try to control and repress female-identifying bodies, trans bodies, or non-binary bodies, it’s not.”
Aaarrrggghh I'm not female identifying, I'm just female! Why can't we be in the list too, our bodies are also pretty obviously controlled and repressed!!!
And then I read this: “When we talked about this as an issue about cis women, it seemed less important, potentially, than it is now with trans people wanting to be open about their bodies, while anti-trans sentiment is at an all-time-high,”
Just in plain sight 😞When it's about women it's less important.
Totally depressed by the whole thing. Even more so because the upshot will probably just be loads more porn-boob pictures anyway 😠
Is it just me? Anyone else see this and have thoughts about it?