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I think you do a disservice to the feminist dichotomy by specifically having to qualify your desire to tightlace with the fact that you are a feminist. We haven’t accomplished anything if you still have to make allusions to the very movement that allows you to even contemplate such a body alteration in the same breath that you declare your desire to wrap your torso in a corset.

If feminism has been even moderately successful, you should be able to express your interest in corsets without fear of retribution or accusations of sending us back to the “Stone Age”.

If feminism has accomplished even one minor victory, you shouldn’t have to seek absolution from your desires to take full command of your body - even if that command is to achieve a visual that some view as antithetical to the cause.

If feminism has any legs today, you shouldn’t have to constantly reaffirm your belief in it.

For the record, i believe feminism to be alive and thriving. I believe it to be the norm. Which is precisely what its founders intended.

rebel-sweetheart:

okay, i’ll admit it: i have a serious fascination with tightlacing. 

i’m not exactly sure if it’s extreme enough to be classified as a fetish, but i just find extremely small waists really beautiful. i think part of my fascination with tightlacing started off after my body had finally settled into its adult shape and i discovered that i have a fairly small waist naturally (25 inches at last measurement), so part of me wants to push that measurement to see how much smaller i can get it. 

i know it sounds weird that a self-described obnoxious feminist would also be totally in favor of wearing an extremely restrictive corset on a regular basis, but to me the freedom to change my body is exactly why i’m a feminist. i’ve been meaning to buy myself a corset for ages and i had a dream about one the other night, which i guess is why i’m writing this. but i’m not going to get just any corset—i need one that fits my figure exactly how i want it to, and gives me maximum waist reduction. maybe it is kind of a warped ideal of beauty, but i just think there’s something so gorgeous and feminine about a woman with a large bust and hips and a 20-inch waistline. yeah, it’s not an aesthetic shared by many, but i personally think it’s beautiful.

(Source: sylvia-scarlett)