This may be the first time ever (?) that I’ve featured a girl on Stuffies. But there’s two more of these and I’m going to be posting them all since she’s basically killed me dead.
I also haven’t a clue who she is, since I found the video on one of those annoying YouTube channels that only swipes videos from other places. Halp?
And no amount of “YOU ARE READING WHAT AMOUNTS TO BAD FANFICTION” will persuade anyone differently, because clearly someone reporting on bad fanfiction understands your actual life better than you do.
THIS. IS. ACCURATE.
People are like “I’ve read about feedism, it’s fucked up.” “Well, what did you read?” -links me to article- “READ SOME BETTER SHIT!”
Hahahaha. When someone I’m interested in asks “What is feederism?” I tell them about it and what it means to me. When I someone asks me that I’m not interested in, I tell them to google it and wait for them to hopefully get scared off from whatever terrible shit they find on the internet.
(via annegotfat)
I’ve recently been part of some conversations about attraction where the following questions/ideas have come up—“am I a chaser? am I fetishizing a community if I’m attracted to its members? is this terrible? is this something I need to think further about? can’t I just say I like XYZ and have it be that, with no ulterior motive? we all have fetishes [here on Fetlife] and some of those things are actions or body parts or people, or IDs…”
There’s a difference between
(a) liking a person’s appearance/body and appreciating it sexually/aesthetically
and (b) placing value solely or primarily on that person’s body/appearance/identity category.
In (b), the person’s story, their life, their individuality is not of primary concern. It is less important than the “hot” identity that makes a person want them. This is also tied to someone having particular ideas about that identity (enter stereotypes!), which increase the desire and do not depend on reality, but on a fictional set of ideas and narratives about a person’s identity.
There are things we might find hot, but we should still interrogate those desires a bit more closely because so often they’re deeply entwined with racist, misogynistic, [insert ID]-st shit and they deserve a closer look. Really analyzing our desires, I think, can also serve to clarify them better for ourselves as well as for potential partners. For example, liking transwomen can be a thing for many reasons—it could be something about the history of transness, or the presumed/assumed anatomy, or it can be about finding someone similar/likewise trans*, or it’s an assumed attitude, the list goes on. What are you attracted to within the demographics you say you like? Are you attracted to women? To masculinity? To femininity? To genderqueerness? To men? To people with lots of hair regardless of what’s in their pants? The list can go on…
Personally, it can be tough for me to interact with people that I know fetishize some aspect of me. Random example—people who love “BBW” (Big Beautiful Women)! Personally, if I were approached by a self-identified “BBW fetishist” I’d probably give them some major side-eye because my experiences seeing that community deal with its attraction to fat bodies has been pretty sketchy in parts, and pretty objectifying. Ditto to someone who loves “Latin@s.” I’d question their motives, their interests, and their desires. I’d ask myself what about me are they stereotyping? Why is my Latinidad important to them? Is it something they wanna celebrate with me or is it something they want to keep out of sight and out of mind (and thus is easy to do because I don’t have an accent and am light-skinned)?
I think stuff like this can happen with any ID “category” (even things like…”gamer”), but it’s just exceptionally complicated and potentially hurtful to people when it’s around identity categories that put that person through shit and other people use to oppress them. Being a person of color or being queer or being fat are not “neutral identities”—they are loaded one that have been previously (and currently!) deployed to control people.
Finally, this conversation this also relates to (but is not the same as) being attracted to someone for how they are perceived and not how they actually identify, or ignoring a piece of someone’s ID because they can “pass” as something else that’s less “problematic.” For example, someone only/primarily being attracted to folks who appear/”act” white, regardless of actual cultural/racial/ethnic background, or someone being attracted to trans* folks that can pass as cis for whatever reason.