🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷😫 it’s a whole generation. We forget, because of how much they’ve traumatized us about weight, that more boomer women were liable to take weight GAIN powder because they thought they were “too skinny”. Then there was Twiggy and shit changed, I guess

Changed just in time for them to completely ruin our health. I have not met a single gen x or elder millennial afab, and quite a few who aren’t afab, who doesn’t have some manner of eating disorder and serious body dysphoria.

And it’s not even just the weight. I was listening to a trans woman talking about getting her ribs broken because she had gender dysphoria about the shape of her body, and we all have that shit. Sister, we all have it. We’ve spent our entire lives being told we don’t look right.

Absolute facts. The entire trans concept of “passing” is about fitting inside the box society expects women to stay in, and you get the same disorders, with an additional surgeries to boot

I completely know gender dysphoria is a thing but it intersects a lot at some point with just regular misogynistic body dysphoria. Like, there’s a point where you can never look feminine enough. Femininity is a construct in your mind.

Our jaws, our noses, our hips, our shoulders, our eyes, our eyebrows, how much body hair we have. What our fucking LABIAS AND VAGINAS look like. I’m not even personally someone who wants to be super feminine and I still have SO much fucking shame and self-loathing about all that shit.

I want books about all this to be written so much I've read that the eating disorders in pple over the age of 50 is the highest it's ever been. And it's gonna get higher as us 90s kids approach that age I turn 49 in a month I've had disordered eating since age 16 And the labia thing. Smdh.

Fr. Like unraveling the fucking shame around appearance, even if you didn’t have outright abuse because of it, like methodical and pointed manipulative abuse around your appearance (and many of us did! It was a way to get us to behave the way others’ wanted us to) is a work of decades.