The hashtag is a riff off of the well-known intersectional political and civil rights movement #BlackLivesMatter, which makes sense since it’s a call to both organize and bring attention to those underrepresented. But using a spin-off of the slogan for other movements tends to create some backlash, as many would argue that it detracts from the urgency of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, even when well-intentioned.
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On her blog, she elaborated how these films, campaigns, and music videos are almost always directed by men who objectify women’s bodies in a way that’s insidious to young girls seeing those very films.
“If I had seen women with saggy boobs being glorified for their beauty, I wouldn’t have developed a complex as a very young teenager,” she wrote. At a young age, she resented her own breasts, wanting to save up her money for a boob job — that is, until she grew tired of hating her body.
“I decided I’d had enough and made the choice to stop wearing a bra.”
Amen to that.
