randollpearson:

randollpearson:

full offense but this obsession with women’s bodies being able to “bounce back” after pregnancy is absolutely fucking weird and abnormal. women who, after pushing out a human being from their fucking vaginas, are instantly back in the gym because the very idea of a woman looking like she’s been pregnant is even more proof of our obsession with women never looking like we’re actual human beings and instead like we’re fantasy images who people (read: men) must never see as imperfect.

this situation has definitely been worsened by social media. women are always seeing other women who fulfill societal ideals of conventional beauty and so we’re always comparing ourselves to them and always trying to achieve their level of perfection. that and the idea that women literally are never allowed to look imperfect, and our bodies must always be in acceptable shape.