Nah but like. As a person who was heavily objectified as a teenage girl because I “looked like an adult” and then started getting immediately infantilized as an adult because now I “look like a child” I am violently uncomfortable with the whole “if you look/act like a young girl then you’re trying to appeal to pedophiles and that makes you a pedophile” shit. Because the thing is, you can never win. As a teenage girl I was constantly being told by the adult women in my life that the way I looked was “too mature” and that I was trying to “grow up too fast” and that I was going to put myself in danger by attracting the attention of older men. What about my appearance was so scandalous, you ask? My vulgar Womanly Makeup and my love for high heels, of course! And heaven forbid, the existence of my sinful breasts and buttocks!! Now I’m 22, chubby, don’t wear makeup, and people seem to think I’m literally 13 years old. When people ask me for my ID they act like I’m trying to pull a fast one on them. Meanwhile my fiance looks 35 so I’m constantly walking around worried someone’s gonna think something hokey is goin on.
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