I wanted to post about something that has been bothering me for a while now and I’m trying to put my finger on it. I listen to a lot of business/political podcasts and lately there has been a lot of talk about going after Instagram because of the damage to the “mental health of young women” (it’s always young women, never boys) - women developing EDs or committing suicide because of what they see on IG and the idea that they cannot “live up” to the images or the expectations. Now, I’m not saying this isn’t true to an extent but the way politicians have been harping on this notion of the “weak young woman” as a way of going after social media companies is REALY irksome to me. It’s infantilizing women as a whole - yet again - and ignoring the far greater problem - yet again- which is, in reality, young men and their access to free porn.

It BLOWS MY MIND that we are not doing anything about this. Like what the actual fuck. Why do we even bother having a movie rating system anymore when little boys are watching fisting videos at age 10? Why are we talking about young women and IG models (which in reality, is not much different than all of the magazines and movies we’ve seen our whole lives) when boys are literally ruining their whole damn selves and making themselves undateable prior to puberty? Are we that uncomfy talking about it? Or is it because men are in charge?

Thoughts?