If your waist shows, it’s “attention-seeking.” If your back is bare, it’s “too bold.” If your body simply looks feminine - curved, alive, unapologetically itself - it becomes something that needs to be controlled before it can be accepted. So you adjust. Not because you’re uncomfortable. But because you’ve been taught that comfort in your own body is dangerous. But here’s the quiet truth no one tells you: There was a time when none of this existed. When the body wasn’t something to defend. When clothing didn’t carry judgment, only expression. The shame you feel today? It didn’t begin with you. And it doesn’t belong to you either.
