A fresh mother comes out against the men who sexually harassed her after "daring" to take photos
Sarah Nicole Landry is not ashamed of her postpartum body and posts photos of her on lingerie on Instagram. The "disgusting" comments and pictures she received from men encouraged her to fight anyone who thinks he can express an opinion on her body just because she likes to showcase it
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03/01/2020Instagram star and fresh mom Sarah Nicole Landry loves her post-pregnancy body and usually posts Instagram photos of her in lingerie as a way of female and personal empowerment. However, while women usually marry her, many men criticize her and her body, harass her with sexual messages and send her explicit pictures (yes, Dick Pics) - just because "they say my pictures require it," she said.
Sarah, who often shares powerful images of her imperfect body, is tired of men seeing this as an invitation to contact her and harass her. She said the pictures were meant to make her and others feel better with their bodies, but instead men respond to her with sexual messages, writing comments like "I would still do her" and making kinky notes on her feet. If that is not strange enough, she is also repeatedly scared to get explicit pictures of genitals from men she does not know at all.
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Internal unrest is not resolved by external adjust. Just It's just not. Tried I tried. Ooh I tried. Tried I tried dieting. I tried to overexercise. Tried I tried when I edited my body. Or were waist trainers to tow. I was trying when I would chew food I considered "bad" and spit it into the trash. Or that time I posted that my jeans were officially a size 0. Was that the finish line? My body changed. My unrest remained. It's like taking your car to the engine failure engine, getting new tires and a paint job to fix it. It's not gonna work. Perfect A perfect looking car with engine failure gets to do one thing: sit in the garage. But the car that gets her engine checked regularly, tuned up and oil changed: she gets to drive. And she may get those new tires and that paint job. But she may also get some scratches and dents and bumper stickers too. This car knows all the exterior adjustments will never fix its engine. But hey, she does get to enjoy the road she's on. see You see, I could have had all the "fixings" in the world, but until I was ready to listen to my body's needs, nourish it, go to therapy, celebrate it, and also deprioritize it ... I was never really going to enjoy this road I'm on. now And now, now I do. ❤️
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Some of you have noticed that the way I'm presenting myself and posting online has shifted over the last year. Eventually I eventually knew I would talk about it. And today feels like a good day. The fact is, for the longest time I'd been apologetic for my body, trying to joke my way through it's differences and normalize my form in a way that felt safe and approachable. It's just that, I'm not * just * living there anymore. I don't think my body needs humor or empathy to be accepted. And I want to exist in how I feel authentically. When you watch characters in TV and movies that exist in different sized bodies (even a medium!) Or different abilities, their storylines are almost always one of these: the funny one, the underdog you feel empathy for, or the one who gets so lucky to be loved by the lead. It's a narrative that we see over and over. And yeah, I will still present myself with the humor I have. With the silliness I feel around my body and the normalities that are frankly, hilarious (Santa was right with the bowl full of jelly fun!). But I feel good, most of my days. I feel sexy, confident, bold, and just me ... I've found life enjoyable beyond my body AND in it. Showing It's showing. I can't help it. And I hope it can show for you too. A With a belief that anyBODY can be the lead. Not just sub-characters anymore.
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To take a stand against men's sexist behavior, Sarah released a series of defiant photos. In one photo, she models underwear and warns her followers that she is "not on the menu." In another she wrote "This is not an invitation", referring to all the men who would probably have contacted her after being exposed to the photo.
Sarah explained: "It's really frustrating. My body is for more than men's pleasure. When I share my stretch marks or cellulite, it often comes with the word 'still' - 'I would still do it.' No matter where I was on my journey, Whether I was fully clothed, sharing photos of my body after giving birth or wearing sports clothes, I always received unwanted comments from men who rate my body according to how I managed to pleasurize their eyes sexually.There were many unwanted reactions and frankly - I even get reactions on my feet If my feet are exposed, I will get notifications about how much someone wants to do certain things to them. Exist in this world without anyone telling me what it was like to do it. There's no reason I can put on socks every day just so that men will not respond to me on my feet. "
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Every time I post a photo showing my body I wind up getting dms, comments on reddit, or Facebook from men saying this: I'd "I'd still f * ck that" ????? Soooo. There's a lot to unpack with what's wrong behind those 4 words for me that I'd like to share with you today. 1. It's indicating that my body (or any body) has a job or a bond to please others and their bodies. 2. It perpetuates that the female form is always sexual, and that to show it is an invitation. 3. It assumes that I have no choice in this. There was no ask. There is simply an answer. SAs if I am on the menu, and they are about to order. 4. It indicated with "still" that I'm not quite at "standard" but it'll do. 5. It's just gross. Men and women ... Our bodies are meant to serve US. Are they built for intimacy? Sure. But that intimacy is not a bond. And that intimacy begins with you, and extends to another or more by CHOICE. Share I share my body as I break free from my own oppressive thoughts built upon decades of images of women that look nothing like me in the media that made me feel ashamed to look different. WE But WE are the media now. WE, if we choose to, have an opportunity to saturate it with different images, that may just change the way even one woman or man views their body. Or ... even better, makes her realize that it's all very normal, and drives her to stop looking at her body with so much importance. And you are under NO obligation to share any part of yourself online. You can be a body confident promoting human while COVERED UP too! Believe that! And we may be sexual beings. But that is not our sole purpose or ever a bond. We were built for so much more. And I can't wait to see what you do with THAT purpose.
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Sarah hopes to make people realize that it's better to just save words. The Instagram star explained: "I wore a bodysuit that I knew would be eye-catching but would also say: 'Even though I'm in lingerie, it's still not okay to make those comments on my body.' I shared lingerie photos, then sportswear, then I am fully clothed and talked about the fact that I get these kinds of reactions regardless of what I wear. "
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Ever had a really bad day and someone said to you "just stay positive!" ? And tears brim your eyes thinking ... great, I'm failing at that too. That's where the difficulty lies for so many when it comes to their bodies. We can scream and shout and let it all out. Positive Be positive! Love yourself! And it's a lot to ask. For me moving from hating to (I'm going to call it) appreciation was not a single step. It was a million of them. And I can sit here and boldly say, I love my body, and I don't love my body. Love I love her in the context that she is mine and I honor and respect her. I take actionable steps to relay that. Unc It's unconditional. But I don't love her in the context that I feel an overwhelming emotion about my exterior. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. Cond It's conditional. All of this to say: hey, it's ok if you don't love your body. It's ok if you don't feel positive about it. Can you sit there for a minute? Can we journey through that? bad Because bad days happen. Good days feel amazing, and noteworthy. And the rest of the days, they're pretty neutral. It's not too unlike our bodies. And the days we exist with them. bad Some bad. Some good. Mostly neutral. So for today ... Whatever you're feeling - it's ok. The bath. The good. The neutral. @knixwear #gifted
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Sarah's position received divided responses. Some women have thanked her for fighting against all those who send her exaggerated reactions. There were quite a few who admitted that they had had similar experiences in the past. One wrote: "When I shared the post, it was amazing how many women went through this experience after sharing their breastfeeding or pregnancy pictures. It was quite shocking to hear that people have a very clear mentality of 'If you dress like that, then you probably ask for it' One woman even said a man who was trying to attack her said, "Well, what do you expect to happen when you're constantly enticing me with your photos on the web?"
But while many supported Sarah, there were quite a few who voted against criticism. She said: "There were also a lot of negative reactions. There were a lot of men and women who disagreed with me. They believe that the way 'you dress' definitely 'demands it.' Sarah added that what disappointed her was that not many women admit that they are influenced to believe it is true:" I don't think such women understand the full extent of what they support. It just makes me sadder that women think it's a proper behavior to send other women explicit pictures. We are much more than our body and how we look. It's not really a compliment to get attention from men that all they care about is just how you look. "