How I and You View My Body

I’d like to take ownership of my own need to continue to progress how I view and have let others view the way in which I treat and have let others treat my body. We all have full permission to push past how we have been acculturated to be. 💕

It’s hard to feel at home in a body that society says was never yours in the first place. The objectification of the female form hurts men AND women. It gives men the idea that a female’s value is ornamental in nature for the consumption of and ownership of male eyes.

Objectification keeps women from feeling whole by narrowing the focus onto the micromanagement of our bodies for the attention and belonging of men instead of concentrating on internal power and worthiness.

We can’t control the size of our bodies let alone PARTS of our bodies, yet we let the male narrative depict what is overtly sexualized and what isn’t, where we are able to show skin, and where we can’t. The ability of men’s bellies, shoulders, breasts, and thighs to be seen without being overtly sexualized shows the duplicity of how women’s bodies are made to be bothered.

Females, we need to take ownership of our bodies while practicing the power of body autonomy because we deserve to feel at home in our bodies.

A man’s inability to control himself has more to do with how he is culturally raised than it has to do with the female form. In the end, we all lose.

Females, we need to take ownership of our bodies while practicing the power of body autonomy because we deserve to feel at home in our bodies.

Men, you’re better than that. ✌🏼

Thank you @beauty_redefined for consistently bringing this back to my attention and the importance of it in the body healing process.