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coal-lk:

libertarirynn:

thefemaleofspecies:

buckybarnesmp3:

kesus:

Young girls really are pressured now more than ever to be seen as beautiful and sexy and perfect like IG models and whatever the fuck…..like that’s why you see “me at 14 vs 14 year old girls today” posts……….we didn’t have this constant stream of content like they do…..content telling us to be perfect and to have perfect clothes and sharp eyeliner wings that look photoshopped and shit like that….I mean it’s always been there but not like this…and while I think girls should be able to dress however they want and do whatever they want…..you have to take into consideration the fact that this all stems from a toxic culture where women have to be perfect and beautiful…now at younger and younger ages….and it’s really gross…and the media continues to sexualize and like…make young girls seem older and more appealing than they actually are idk the whole thing makes me so uncomfortable and it’s only going to get worse

And the wildest thing is, people will still try and justify it with the “there’s always been girls that dress older than they are!” argument. Which is true. But it was never the norm. Pre social media, most young girls were allowed be young girls. Here’s Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Lindsay Lohan at 14/15 in 2001-2007. They were arguably the biggest young stars of the time but this is how they presented

They aren’t being styled to look leagues older than they are. They’re allowed to just be their own age and look their own age. Now, here’s Millie Bobbie Brown at 13 in 2018, Veronika Bonell at 15/16 in 2017, Skai Jackson at 13 in 2015, and Caitlin Carmichael at 13 in 2017.

There is a deep problem in our society that this is what people are styling children to look like. They don’t look like children, they look like young adults. They could wear these exact same looks in 10 years and they wouldn’t be questioned because they’re dressed and made up to present as adults. This is what is presented as normal for young girls, this is the image they’re told is the “right” one, the one they should aspire to.

There’s nothing wrong with girls – or boys – wanting to be pretty. But there is a problem with young girls being constantly told that pretty for them means looking over 21 at 13.

There’s nothing wrong with girls – or boys – wanting to be pretty. But there is a problem with young girls being constantly told that pretty for them means looking over 21 at 13.

I’ve always been extremely uncomfortable with the fact that Millie Bobby Brown looks 25 in most photos.

If you are a girl and you feel “pressured” by “society” into doing something a certain way that you don’t feel entirely comfortable with, how about not doing it that way, instead doing it (or not doing it at all) in a way you DO feel comfortable with?

And if you’re not one of those girls but think they are incapable of doing anything other than what “society” “pressures” them into doing, then you are a sexist.

We’re talking about 13 year old children here you fucking freak stop blaming them for not dealing with shit like adults would

rj-anderson:

clarabosswald:

ON THE ONE HAND: Gave us Martha Jones, the first black female companion in Doctor Who’s history, an amazingly smart, brave, kind and loyal young doctor who went on an incredible journey of transformation and had to deal with things like racism and PTSD, who loved, lost, suffered and saved the world before eventually emerging from it all stronger and better than she was before.

ON THE OTHER HAND: Spent much of Martha’s season comparing her to a white woman, made it clear the Doctor thought of her as inferior and constantly referenced Rose throughout S3, and contributed to the fanbase’s shitty backlash against her by never giving us a proper chance to move on from Rose and warm up to her. And then he even made the fact that she walked the earth FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR to save the world AND the Doctor AND her imprisoned family about ‘coming out of Rose’s shadow’ by having the Master WHO HAD NEVER EVEN MET ROSE say, just before her hour of triumph, “Such a disappointment. In days of old, Doctor, you had companions who could absorb the time vortex. This one’s useless" – a line which makes no fucking sense, I mean, if he was going to reference one of the Doctor’s old companions, why not Jo or Nyssa or, I don’t know, ONE OF THEM HE ACTUALLY MET, I mean, was it really fucking necessary to have the Master say in that moment “Hey Doctor, your companion’s shit, Rose was so much better, lol.” Did Russell T really have to make that moment about proving she’s just as good as Rose? For that matter, why is absorbing the time vortex something to live up to? Rose looked at the heart of the TARDIS, became superpowered and nearly died, all in the space of about five minutes. But Martha walks the earth for a year – A YEAR – all while a remaining a small, insignificant, vulnerable human, lived in fear, starved, slept in ditches, watched people die and worried about her family being tortured or killed, yet somehow that’s still not good enough? She PERSONALLY eludes the Master’s clutches for A YEAR and his response is ‘yeah, but you ain’t Rose.’ What the fuck? Why was so much of Martha’s triumph about proving she’s just as good as Rose? Why did Russell T make the Doctor treat her like shit for the crime of not being Rose? I mean, leaving aside the awful racial implications, the Doctor has NEVER consistently treated a new companion unfairly because he missed his old ones. I get that Ten would miss Rose, his first companion since he lost his people, but Russell T could easily have shown the Doctor being sad and emotionally distant without having him say “MARTHA YOU’RE SHIT WHY AREN’T YOU ROSE, ROSE WOULD KNOW, ROSE WAS SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU.” And on top of that, The Runaway Bride showed Ten dealing with Rose’s loss. At the end of the episode he asked Donna to come with him which proved he was ready for a new companion. The issue had been dealt with but Russell T CHOSE to go back on it just so he could make ‘Rose vs Martha’ a thing. Why? Season 3 was MARTHA’S season. It was the first to feature a non-white female companion. It was the first to feature a black female companion. And he chose to diminish her character just for the sake of making his personal favourite, Rose Tyler, (who already had two seasons of her own!) look better.

More swearing than I usually reblog but I feel this whole commentary ON A VISCERAL LEVEL and I will NEVER BE OVER IT.

I don’t hate Rose in the least, but wow do I ever dislike what RTD did to the Doctor and all his subsequent companions, ESPECIALLY Martha, because of her.