Those pics aren’t even remotely about body positivity or acceptance.
they are definitively sexual and cater entirely to the male gaze and male ideals of female sexuality. Even down to the pose she’s doing. Just because she’s got a largely female following doesn’t make that less true.
it’s so effed up that she’s promoting this as some sort of revolutionary body acceptance, that she’s promoting it as empowering for herself. It’s not empowering, she’s just reassuring herself that she fits into that make ideal of female sexuality. With the glance over her shoulder etc. The whole demeanour of that pose is provocative and sexual… for men. It’s similar to the kind of poses you’d see in soft porn pictures (not disparaging porn or the women who model, but it’s absolutely for the male gaze)
I think that’s where a lot of women get confused over what makes them feel good about themselves, (purely for themselves) compared to feeling good because you’re conforming to male standards. It’s so deeply entrenched in society that the male experience and view is the definitive one that we’ve internalised it.
in other words, are those frilly lacy undies really making nelly feel good about herself? Do the way-too-tight bras and undies really celebrate her body and make her feel comfortable? Or is it the fact that the entire industry is made up mostly of men, that those undies are designed to be enjoyed by men, and nelly feels good because we’ve all subconsciously been taught that catering to men = good. My bet is on the latter.
A read an article on the misogyny of female underwear and it mentioned “
Underneath It All: A History Of Women’s Underwear, Amber J. Keysner, PhD found that the male gaze and misogyny was, and still is, the key part in defining women’s beauty standards — and in turn, the creation of lingerie and constricting undergarments to conform to those standards. In fact, she said, "Victoria’s Secret, the guy who founded that, he absolutely intentionally created an experience focused on the male gaze."
… but now he’s back, buying the shit vibrator and taking her out to celebrate?
