Find myself trimming my beard today. Hate doing it but people do make comments about 'looking homeless'.

I fight with having to trim it to look 'respectable' - many people judge on first appearance, they forget some people have trauma about this?

No, not 'anyone can do it'!

Like ageism & ableism, lookism & body fascism are still bigotries it's OK to have...if you don't do these things, you get comments about how 'easy' it is to groom yourself, how you're letting the side down by not keeping up this weird standard that apparenrtly no-one likes to do, but everyone does?

Isn't the problem with these weird policing of other people's bodies & assumptions that someone with a long unkempt beard - or in some places just a beard however groomed - is 'dirty' and 'can't be trusted'? Old wives tales...but weirdly prevalent.

Hating our own nature is toxic but oddly very common, and policing of bodies is not just a femme presenting thing...that straitjacket is sadly for everyone, if maybe less severe.

#bodyfascism

#eugenics #BodyFascism

"Body Fascism: the promotion of an 'ideal' body type as a symbol of patriotism—conceived of as the pinnacle of health, discipline, credibility, and worth—in service of a nationalist agenda, while 'non-ideal' bodies experience increased violence and erasure.

We are living through a moment of intensified pressure on the body and flesh. In the afterlife of a mass disabling pandemic, COVID-19, the language of health and discipline has resurfaced with a vengeance. The rapid rise of GLP-1s, the cultural fixation on enhancements and bodily optimization, and the expansion of metrics used to measure fitness and productivity signal something larger than a wellness trend—which is, in itself, a benevolent form of anti-fatness. Together, these all reflect a political commitment: the elevation of a specific kind of body as the standard of safety—which can't be divorced from surveillance—and belonging.

The term 'body fascism' names the promotion of thin/muscular, 'productive,' cisgender and heterosexual, white, militarizable bodies as a national and patriotic symbol. This body is projected through social institutions such as education, media, religion, medicine, and the government so that it stands out as the standard. Through this projection, the 'ideal' body is given authority, credibility, and care, while bodies that deviate from it are not simply excluded but pushed and pulled toward erasure. The ideal body becomes a symbol of the nation, treated as competent and worthy—but only as long as it can perform for the state."

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/

If one has to carry a "Gender Recognition Certificate," one knows that they are in a body-fascist country.

#bodyfascism #identification #genderpolicing #gonadalpolicing #sexpolicing
#legalsex is not always #cerebralsex #somaticsex #gonadalsex #socialsex #hormonalsex #geneticsex #phenotypicalsex

"A Walmart employee named Dani Davis was accosted and threatened by a transphobic customer during her shift, and she was subsequently fired because of it. The customer followed her into the bathroom and accused her of being a man and yelled transphobic slurs at her. Days after she reported the incident to her supervisor, she was fired because she supposedly posed a “security risk” to others in the store. In this video we’ll talk about this disturbing story and discuss how transphobia harms -all- women; both trans and cis alike."—

Walmart fires cisgender employee *because* she was Harassed by a transphobic customer in bathroom >

https://youtu.be/nauz7001Q0U

#video #testimonial #BoycottWalmart #bathrooms #USA #transphobia #bodyfascism #bigotry = #violence #BoycottUSA

Dare I ask to anyone using words like "the female me", or "the male me"; if there ever was any "male me/female me" after all? Wasn't the "female me" or "male me" only performed so to feel safer in a genital-essentialist, body-fascist, society instead?
And there were no me there to exist.

#reflection #bodyfascism #gonadalsex #essentialism

Enforcing the transgender category on any cherry picked one is pretty unfair when feeling uncomfortable being categorized as cisgender.

#cisnormativity #bodyfascism

I'm not the kind of person telling Jeanne d'Arc that she's an egg.
People are people and not a reductive identifier on a passport.

#passports #transgenderban #legalsex #bodyfascism

"Russia is considering a "Ministry of Sex" amid its population crisis. As Russia shrinks, it says that child-free ideology is to blame. So Kremlin has banned "child-free propaganda" to try to boost birth rate. Will Russia’s bizarre ideas boost the population? Why are countries throwing money at the problem as their population shrinks?"—Firstpost

Russia Mulls “Ministry of Sex”, Bans "Child-Free Propaganda" | Vantage with Palki Sharma >

https://youtu.be/3cDSD3-KOrQ?feature=shared

#news #video #Russia #CannonFodder #patriarchy #RussianFederation #BodyFascism #PopulationDecline #Coercition #ChildFree #idiocracy #MinistryOfSex #enforcement #ridiculous #domination #fear #heteronormativity #imperialism #MoreLittleSoldiers #facts #WhatWorks #WomensRight #Firstpost #Vantage #PalkiSharma