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if you think 19th century corsets are evil wait til you hear about the 21st century weight loss/dieting industry
a better headline here is "telling people to hate themselves is now worth $72 billion"
it's just. v interesting that people seem to think that expecting women to conform to an unrealistic body shape in order to be fashionable is an entirely an issue of the past
also corsets don't Shift Your Organs Around like..........people in the 1800s thought cocaine was medicine. HEROIN was marketed as the SAFER alternative to morphine. do you guys really think they had a solid understanding of what happens internally when people wear corsets
your organs really only shifted around if you were tightlacing every day for years which is uh. extremely bad and dangerous. but also uncommon.
the point of this thread is be thankful that bras were invented, bc they are superior to corsets in every way, but keep in mind that a lot of our perception of them has been skewed by 19th century men who used corsets as an excuse for why women shouldn't vote
i wish i was making this up but "women are so STUPID that they voluntarily wear CORSETS, which are DANGEROUS, just because they want to look pretty!!! they only care about pretty!!!! no brain can't vote good!!" was literally one of the arguments against suffragettes
