βThe reason why I was so happy to play this role and so excited about the idea of being part of this universe because I thought it was so bold, so interesting, and so unique to have an ending like this. [β¦] It was one film and I knew what the end was going to be. And itβs one of the things that excited me the most, you know, thatΒ Star WarsΒ was going to do that, was going to show what sacrifice means, and was going to go for it.β β Diego Luna
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY | 2016 dir. Gareth Edwards
ive gotta say people on the internet being honest about what they find hot in people’s bodies and behaviors has done more for my body image issues than any body-positivity mantra ever. thank you people on the internet for being horny about literally every possible part and variation of the human body and for sharing it
the world doesnt make men feel beautiful and make women feel ugly. it makes women feel they literally exist for men’s use. that is why redefining beauty is idiotic. why are we trying to expand the parameters in which you can exist in to be deemed fuckable by men when the problem is this tyrannical idea in the first place
what’s bonkers is this stupid cultural schema doesn’t even make men feel beautiful either. it tells them that beauty is something they have to strive to possess. they’re either strong enough to earn a beautiful woman, or they’re worthless. women are made to be used by men but men aren’t even men if they can’t get a woman to use. complimentarianism, the idea that two sexes are made to interlock as opposites and complete each other, join men and women’s entire self-worth together in this miserable act of subjugation, while making sure anyone who can’t manage it (or won’t cooperate with it) is dismissed as worthless; desexed; unpersoned.
i think this might be part of why gay men scare the shit out of some guys: there is a beauty in men that belongs to them intrinsically, and there is a way men can love each other for it that has nothing to do with the domination of women. what a frightening thing to glimpse, through a sudden crack in your strangling narrow worldview.
