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I recently had a conversation that got me thinking of how our culture genders beauty and who gets to stray for a "meaningful" reason and in what contexts that is either tolerated, celebrated or damned.
I was telling a friend in a private conversation that I just honestly find a male celebrity terribly ugly and unattractive. The friend answered: Yes, he is ugly but he uses that you know.
And that is the entire point. (2/x)
And that is the entire point. (2/x)
When non male presenting celebs or artists cultivate ugliness as part of their art it is much more often commented upon, called brave or brazen. For male artists it is "character" and seldom touched upon but seen as a "Gesamtkunstwerk" that respective artist produces. (3/x)
And that stinks. It is very seldom, and often only for very accomplished or marginalized and accomplished non-male artists that they can get away with being "ugly" as part of their art - also because their marginalization makes them "ugly" in some ways by default. (4/x)
Western beauty standards are built on the otherness of bodies not deemed white, able-bodied and slim or fit. The eyes of the beholders decide, while the beholder is not under scrutiny himself. He may be ugly. But he decides. (5/x)
Like @monaeltahawy wrote in her Essay "The King Herself"
"Are you a boy? Are you a girl? Who the fuck cares. Are you ugly? Fuck the beholder and the eye of the beholder."
Read that essay, long good read before bed.
(6/6) https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-king-herself
"Are you a boy? Are you a girl? Who the fuck cares. Are you ugly? Fuck the beholder and the eye of the beholder."
Read that essay, long good read before bed.
(6/6) https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-king-herself
