IT’S 100% FUCKING ILLOGICAL TO EXPECT MEN TO HAVE THIS RIPPED SIX-PACK ABS AND BE SKINNY AND HAVE PERFECT SKIN AND FACIAL COMPLEXION! MEN ALSO EXPERIENCE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH OUR BODIES ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.
I’m bringing back the REAL post. For those of you who care enough about how body image issues effect BOTH MEN AND WOMEN and how ignoring men with eating disorders or who have depression or deep insecurities because of their body image is not just ignorant, but it’s horribly insulting. Making fun of this post means you are telling men who feel degraded that they should feel bad about themselves and that they don’t mean anything. For everyone who reblogged the posts that made fun of this original post, shame on you. I’m very disappointed. Please share the original because this is an important issue.
Also raised to my attention is I neglected to add people of color to this post, I am sorry for my negligence so I shall add bonus images here of unrealistic expectations for men of every race, I chose Men’s Health Magazine because it’s extremely popular in telling men how to look:
No, guys, you don’t understand. I just got so relieved seeing this original post again that I nearly cried.
Bless the blog that brought the original back!
Here’s the original post without some of you asshats changing the pictures
This is actually the VERY FIRST TIME I’ve seen the original post, which goes to show how quickly people turned it into a joke. I confess that I did laugh at some of the absurd replacement images in the other versions, and I feel guilty for that now because I, like many, was missing an extremely important message.
To all of my male followers who struggle with self-esteem: I support you too. Even though I’m really quiet and have a bad habit of going weeks or months without posting, I WILL be there for you if you come to me wanting to talk or just vent. That’s a promise.
Another thing to note that in all, ALL, of those pictures the men are actively flexing. And often such defenition for shoots is exaggerated by dehydration, airbrushing and photoshopping. That chiseled look isn’t a look you can acheive at rest without literal implants. Here are 2 examples of flexed vs relaxed:
And you know what? Dollars to doughnuts none of the above muscular looking guys are as strong as these men:
These are strongmen. These are the bodies of men that train for strength, not defenition. These guys can practically lift cars and drag trains.
So men of the world that get depressed about not looking like you just stepped off a magazine cover, relax. You don’t have to look like that. You are handsome, beautiful and fantastic the way you are.
To all my beautiful boys ❤ Please read and heed. You’re amazing, and you don’t have to look any particular way. This goes for transboys too. You’re handsome no matter what!!!
msevylynch Some photos from my favourite day ever! Not going to lie, I’ve spent the past couple days intermittently weeping and staring into space 😅 This journey started back in early September and every day since then has been so rigorous, intense and joyous without letting up and I’ve loved every minute. Even when it was hard and I struggled, I always felt there was no place I’d rather be. I am so grateful to @dancingabc for letting me be part of this amazing family and the world of dance. And to my partner in crime and dance of the past few months @keo_motsepe, who must be so sick of my gushing about him on this damn show, thank you for being the BEST teacher/partner/coach I could have wished for. We were labeled as underdogs from quite early on which, hilariously, I was completely oblivious to at first because you always made me feel like we were hot shit!! I knew when I met you that I’d have to get on your level, and your teaching, patience, strength and creativity inspired me to do that. You taught me the work ethic of doing things ‘step by step’, not obsessing over past mistakes or borrowing anxiety from future challenges and that’s how we got to the finale. (x, x)
Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.
I liked Ron in the films (which I saw first) because Rupert Grint was really funny. Then I read the books and loved the character even more. I also got angry about all the book!Ron things that Rupert was cheated out of getting to do in the films.
Then I started on Tumblr, and was shocked to discover just how many in the fandom actually hated Ron. I honestly didn’t understand why, considering that I related so much to Ron.
Thankfully, thanks to mutuals, I got into the RWDS and haven’t looked back since. I’m so happy that the fandom perception of the character is finally changing.
I never really had a favourite character in the books when I first read them, although I always did like Ron more than most other characters. I think my favourite characters were always Ron, Luna and Neville.
The films didn’t jeopardise my love of Ron at all, since I was first introduced to the character through the films. I was quite lucky in that the first HP films I watched were PS/SS and COS, both of which were made when Chris Columbus was restraining Steve Kloves from going full-on Weasley hating. In those films, Ron is allowed to be Harry’s best friend, which really helped me like the character.
Like at first Ron would be freaked out by Luna’s mannerisms and her superstitions but later in their relationship he would be so used to it that he just agrees w/ everything she says
“honey don’t forget to wear your butterbeer cork necklace to work the nargles are acting up again”
“mmkay dear”
I’m a Romione shipper, and EVEN I think this is cute.
I have to be honest, during book five I actually thought Ron and Luna were going to end up together
I kinda thought that was going to happen as well. There’s a lot of evidence to suggest she had a crush on Ron. I actually think it would have made more sense in HBP for Ron to date Luna instead of Lavender. But that would have made things conflicted, since I like Romione but I like Ron x Luna too.
Hermione: Hello, I’m Hermione and this is my husband Ron. And that’s HIS husband, Harry.
Harry: Hello!
Interesting headcanon. I’m not Jewish myself, so I don’t really feel qualified to write in-depth headcanons about the idea. But thank you for the message, @hanukkahmagnus!
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