Breaking up with my last ex was similar to walking into a sliding glass door repeatedly while carrying hot coals in my mouth and trying to whistle. I don’t know where that metaphor just came from but it feels about right.
I would emphasize a lot of this boils down to respecting us as women just as much as you would want to be respected yourself. And the fact is that trans women are a component of queer women’s communities, so a lack of respect amongst us just means more devaluing of women, when society dishes out plenty of that for all of us already.
I can’t take the amount of adorable here. It’s too much. Where are my smelling salts?
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A clothing store in Sweden has introduced curvy mannequins that better reflect the average women’s body shape. If something like this catches on it has the power to change the whole fashion industry.
The more we reblog this, the more pressure we’ll put on the industry to change their skinny obsessed ways.
I’m going to send a link to this post, and the original one on Facebook, to every fashion brand contact I have - so let’s show them how much this matters!
A big thanks to Women’s Rights News for bringing this to light.
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