1. La Trampa de la Apariencia: Crítica en Ambas Direcciones.
Esta sección destaca las expectativas contradictorias impuestas a las mujeres. Ya sea que se ajusten a los estándares de belleza (maquillaje, depilación) o los rechacen, sus elecciones son enmarcadas como una sumisión o un fracaso dentro del sistema patriarcal, sin dejar espacio para una auténtica expresión personal libre de juicio.
- Wearing makeup is letting the patriarchy win, looking good without makeup is letting the patriarchy win, wearing skimpy outfits is patriarchy, too much clothes is patriarchy, holy shit.
- If you wear makeup you're a victim of the patriarchy, if you don't wear makeup you're a victim of the patriarchy, if you breathe you're a victim of the patriarchy. Women can't just fucking exist.
- Whenever i talk about how beauty standards are oppressive, followers remind me that i wear makeup etc; and isn't that just playing into patriarchy? yes. Yes it is. Like you, i must play into patriarchy often, in the ways that i calculate to be necessary, while balancing an ongoing resentment of it.
- I just love it when other women tell me that i am reinforcing patriarchy by preferring to wear dresses and makeup and heels.
- Women regurgitating patriarchy for male approval will never not be pathetic. Imagine needing validation from people who hate you & will call you ugly for wearing makeup & not wearing makeup while they refuse to wash their assholes.
2. La Ropa como Herramienta de Control y Opresión.
La discusión señala prendas y decisiones de diseño específicas como manifestaciones físicas del control patriarcal. La falta de bolsillos funcionales en la ropa femenina es un símbolo recurrente de esto, junto con prendas incómodas como los tacones y la inconsistencia en las tallas, vistas como formas de limitar e incomodar a las mujeres.
- Patriarchy uses clothes as a form to physically constrain women. Think of heels, mini skirts and clothes with no pockets.
- Cliche but: i have been wearing a pair of women’s pants for approximately two hours and the complete lack of pockets has radicalized me into a homicidal froth. Exterminate the patriarchy.
- The best proof of patriarchy is the lack of pockets on women’s clothes.
- The moment women's throw off the shackles of arbitrary clothes sizes is when the patriarchy is in deep shit.
- Women, being uncomfortable in your clothes is part of the patriarchy.
- Patriarchy is that my eight months old son's clothes have more pockets than mine.
3. Estándares de Belleza: La Presión por un Ideal Inalcanzable.
Este tema explora cómo los estándares de belleza patriarcales imponen ideales irreales y a menudo dañinos a las mujeres. Estos dictan todo, desde el tamaño del cuerpo y la depilación hasta el envejecimiento, creando una presión constante para conformarse a una definición estrecha, a menudo racista y edadista, de la belleza para ser tratada mejor en la sociedad.
- Being a woman is not enough, you have to be hot too. Patriarchy.
- I've talked before about how the dominant beauty standards are racist, ageist, ableist and antifat. Women know this, but we also know that the closer we hew to the beauty standard, the better we will be treated in life and work. It's impossible to live as a woman without having to play to patriarchy.
- Patriarchy - determining a norm of a more child like, doe-eyed, baby-smooth, forever youthful woman and supporting a industry of hair removal products and processes which very often lead to cuts, soreness discomfort and, an inevitable state of 'imperfection' as the hair will always try to grow back.
- Diet culture and beauty standards are an oppressive tool set by the patriarchy to keep women focused and obsessed on how they look rather than literally anything else.
- It’s fairly easy to cosplay as a ‘traditional’ woman and cling to rigid gender roles when you still have what patriarchy values the most in women—youth and beauty. But once that fades, all that’s left is the realisation that compliance was never enough to secure respect, only temporary approval.
4. Actos de Resistencia: Desafiando las Normas Impuestas.
En respuesta a la opresión percibida, muchos expresan actos de desafío contra las normas patriarcales. Estos actos van desde no depilarse y no usar sostén hasta vestir prendas o maquillajes específicos como una demostración de poder, evidenciando un esfuerzo consciente por reclamar la autonomía corporal y desafiar las expectativas sociales.
- Wearing a tank top with unshaved armpits and a skirt with unshaved legs. Power move. Fuck the patriarchy.
- I love that patriarchy is so fuckning fragile and weak and pathetic that it can be completely obliterated by wearing the "wrong" clothes outside.
- Read a thing about how fashion is always political, and that it’s no coincidence that the weird prairie dresses with high necks happen to be a thing rn, so in conclusion: show cleavage, fight the patriarchy.
- Saw a young woman at the gym with short hair on her head & long on her legs and pits. I thought to myself what a hero not caving to social demands and patriarchal bullshit. What a simple subtle resistance to the patriarchy. I'm here for it.
- Sometimes you need a bra-less work day just to say fuck you to the patriarchy.