- Everyone: ugh there's Frozen merch everywhere when will it stop
- Universal Pictures: hello naughty children it's minion time
There’s a predictable social media formula for what women’s pictures online should look like. Breasts in barely-there bikinis are good, but breasts with babies attached them are questionable. Women wearing next to nothing is commonplace, but if you’re over a size 10 your account may be banned. Close-up shots of women’s asses and hardly-covered vaginas are fine, so long as said body parts are hairless. And now, in a controversy that once again brings together technology, art, feminism and sex, Instagram is under fire for removing a self-portrait from artist Rupi Kaur that showed a small amount of her menstrual blood. Apparently having a period violates the site’s Terms of Service. The broader message to women couldn’t be clearer: SeXXXy images are appropriate, but images of women’s bodies doing normal women body things are not.
- Jessica Valenti (via stay-ocean-minded)
(Source: endangeredbodiesnyc)