As anyone who read my blog post on Butler might imagine, I focused on cisgender privilege while writing about this image, but I wanted to share it so everyone else could weigh in as well if they felt so inclined. I encountered it on a friend's Facebook page and it made the ol' hackles stand up, I must say.
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I have a few comments to make on this picture, both personal feelings and what I think based on "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire".
The original text says "Real Women Have Curves". This is a statement that I've heard many times before. It seems to counterbalance the idea that is socially constructed for women to be stick thin. The picture behind the text shows a stick thin woman that happens to have large breasts (curves?). However it seems that having curves has also become culturally constructed. It seems that insteaed of responding to being stick thin and instead of letting women know that curves are beautiful instead of or separate from being thin, it just got added onto being thin. So now women want to be thin with large breasts and junk in the trunk.
This text has crossed out "curves" and added "a vagina" in order to say "Real Women Have a Vagina". I take this to be a bit of a gritty statement. The word "vagina" is not as appealing as the word "curves". Vagina seems to symbolize something that is more culturally assigned to women. Vaginas aren't always pretty, but all women have them (unlike curves). Vaginas seem to unite women, but does it really? How about those that are born in a male's body but identify as a woman, or vice versa! Certain body parts doesn't necessarily constitute one's identity or categorization.
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