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This is a blog to archive and showcase the prevalence of certain ways women are depicted in illustrated pop media, specifically how women are posed, drawn, distorted, and/or sexualized out of context, often in ridiculous, impossible or disturbing ways that sacrifice storytelling.

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hyenasaurus asked: 'Former 15 year old''s argument is also flawed from it's very base. He's comparing the current day's image of a 'sexy woman' with the taste of donuts. But he ignores that while a caveman would indeed find donuts delicious, he'd also find the current canon of 'sexy' horrendous. Because it really IS very recent. Do you want to know what the natural canon for beauty was, before companies screwed us up? Pudgy, curvy women with big breasts. The ones more likely to carry a pregnancy with sucess.

You know, I’ve actually heard someone try to justify thinness and anorexia as being “evolutionary” by claiming that thin women and women who could starve themselves meant that their families had more food to eat.  Of course, they didn’t think about getting through childbirth to actually have a family… or surviving afterwards if you’re not eating.  Being a recovering anorexic, I know how little energy I had, and still have, how easily cold I was, etc etc etc, I’m pretty sure being anorexic in “cave days” would kill you pretty fast.

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  1. hirojin said: @radishson I hope that @hyenasaurus was talking about the snake people from comics. Seeing those in real life would scare the shit out of you too.
  2. redmiel said: I read somewhere that women with low to no body fat can become incapapble of having children, so super-skinny is not an evolutionary advantage.
  3. theyorkist said: Not to mention that women would have had to breastfeed the babies and therefore would need to eat well or both mother and child would die. And with infant mortality so high, they’d have been pregnant a lot more of the time than women are today.
  4. vicmin said: IMO, anorexia is most commonly *caused* by the unrealistic expectations posed to us by the media. So there probably wouldn’t have been much (if any) anorexia seeing as people didn’t have the negative preconceptions regarding fat people in “cave days”
  5. radishson said: Eating disorder are really tragic but can we not refer to ANYONES body as “horendous”? there is a difference between criticising unrealistic, harmful depictions of women vs flat-out bodyshaming!!
  6. zenis said: tbh i disagree with ‘this is what cavemen found sexxxy’ thing because im pretty sure our stone age ancestors didnt really give a shit about what their sexual partners looked like lol
  7. der-kapitaen said: what the fuck. why would anyone justify or even glorify such starving behaviour. hellooooo??? HELL-FUCKING-O.