“motherhood will ruin your body”

but only if you have bad anthropology

Cherith Musta, “Mother’s Arms”

It was a crazy time to Be Online this week as a postpartum woman, as the topic of our bodies and their beauty (or lack thereof) was the talk of the town. It went like this:

The artist formerly known as Radfem Hitler, on the platform formerly known as Twitter, quote-tweeted a user who said that women don’t want to get pregnant because they’re afraid of what it will do to their body, explaining, “That’s because men are disgusted by postpartum bodies.”