[D]espite their tattoos, hair coloring, and creative piercings, [Suicide Girls] fall neatly within the confines of mainstream beauty standards. Imagine giving the varsity cheerleading squad makeovers at Hot Topic, and you wouldn’t be too far off. Most of the models here (and on other indie-porn sites, too) are thin, white, and traditionally beautiful. Fat girls — hell, even average plump girls — aren’t Suicide Girls, and with only a couple of exceptions, neither are girls of color. It’s not that punk and indie scenes are devoid of these women, so their apparent exclusion from the site suggests that Suicide Girls and others aren’t seeing the alternatives in “alternative.” There’s a certain kind of hypocrisy in a site that pats itself on the back for being “different,” yet seems to equate that only with being different from others featuring blond Pamela Anderson…
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Bitch Magazine, Sex, Dreads and Rock’n’Roll. (via grundstuck)
Suicide Girls is chock full of problematic shit. I did a lengthy post a long ass time ago about it, now I want to re-earth that shit.
(via mia-the-wonder-slut)
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
— Franz Kafka; from a diary entry dated 23 March 1914. (via setbabiesonfire)
