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21 Illustrations By Lainey Molnar That Challenge Societal Norms Surrounding Femininity, Body Image, And More (New Pics)
Interview With Artist
Lainey Molnar is an artist that creates thought-provoking illustrations exploring and challenging societal norms surrounding femininity, body image and more. From motherhood to freedom of choice, she tackles a variety of themes important to many.
Molnar is Hungary's first personal blogger. She's been involved in the fashion industry and women's empowerment projects for quite some time already. However, in her blogging days, she received a lot of hate and harassment, so that's when she decided to create a comic-style avatar as a representation of herself to help her process what she's been going through as a woman.
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It honestly doesn’t impact you in any way if gay people get married or not. Just let them be happy
When we asked Lainey about her source of inspiration, the artist revealed that her own experiences, as well as a variety of content creators, inspire her for new illustrations or comics. The artist has also shared that she has a long list of illustration ideas on her phone and she picks the one that makes her feel inspired at the moment of drawing.
I shouldn't posted my love for real skin textures here! Lol LOVE IT!!!! ❤️🤗👏👏🥰👏
We were wondering if the artist has noticed some change in the messages she's trying to convey. "I believe the one thing that came up in a lot of my illustrations lately is double standards when it comes to women and men and how deeply they are embedded in society as the norm," Laney shared. "Like when a man has body hair, it's completely normal, but when a woman doesn't shave her armpit hair, it's suddenly 'unhygienic'. Or when a man puts himself out there firmly, he is called assertive, but a woman is called bossy. There are so many little things that add up to a system where women swim against the current and we don't even realize. My illustrations are a straightforward way to call these out and make people think."
There is such a stigma surrounding mental health is so many parts of the world. As someone who has struggled with ADHD and anxiety I've always been told to suck it up and stop complaining. Some people still view mental health as a "moral weakness." I was even told by my mum when I was younger that I was crazy...just because my brain works a bit differently then others. I don't think I will every forget those words and they are probably what turned me into such a perfectionist and overly ambitious person today. Words can truly hurt. We really need to end the stigma around mental health and nuerodivergency. Ps- To the arsehole who is downvoting people in this thread, get a damned life.
Both are just as serious, but still aren't treated the same way
I wish this was true but the reality is that people (especially women) who are physically ill are often treated the same way mentally ill people are. Women have very long diagnostic windows and are usually told at least once that it's all in their head. Women who die from pregnancy complications often raise the alarm that something is wrong long before doctors look for a cause (if the doctors ever do) and being ignored often contributes to their deaths. Women are less likely to be given oxygen, pain killers, etcetera than their male counterparts even when the exact same conditions are met. For more information check out: •littlemissdiagnosed on tiktok, she's a surgeon at UVA and discusses medical gaslighting, issues women face when seeking diagnosis, etcetera. •Invisible Women: data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Pérez
Unless it's a *chronic* physical illness, then people get tired of showing support real fast. Which makes no sense to me - an able-bodied person who goes through a few weeks of an acute illness will most likely recover & get back to life, but with an incurable chronic illness life will be hell til the end and the mental toll is immense - especially when lacking social support.
But to be fair, these aren't a good comparison. Hospitals are to treat things that can't be treated at home, which is mostly mobility and physical.
I may be reading this pic wrong, but I have mental health issues, and on my bad days I don't have strength to deal even with the most good-intentional support from anyone but my therapist. So this looks more like "do it this way" advise for me, not like something bad. Don't force attention, care and flowers on someone going through acute mental issues. I have lots of friends with same, and we all go no contact when we can't handle it.
According to Laney, the biggest misconception about women's bodies and mental health is that women's worth lies in "how they look or how their bodies are shaped". "We are conditioned from an early age that only petite princesses find their happily ever after and how good girls and decent women don't take up much space and are always well groomed, put together, and overall do everything in their power to match the (unrealistic) beauty standards. So much of what we do, even subconsciously - like sucking our bellies in, constantly fluffing our hair - is this constant chase of the ideal. It's a system that serves nobody and it needs to go."
It’s just this one guy edit : I mean in like all of the comics he says something sexist or insensitive
This is absolutely true. Dude, you're not competing with other guys, you are competing with my love of sanity, peace, and freedom.
Lainey is currently working on launching a podcast and building "a tiny little empire" of community to help women worldwide "redefine femininity on their own terms, so we can all be free to express ourselves and make life choices the way we want them. There is no wrong way to be a woman, you do you!"
From experience I can say that gender doesn't have an impact on competence, it depends the most on the individual and can't be limited to a group as big as "women" and "men"
If you'd like to see the previous parts, make sure to click here, here, here, here, here and here! Let us know your thoughts by commenting and upvoting your favorite illustrations!
"If he don't love you anymore Just walk your fine @$$ out the door"- Lizzo
Oooooh! Sriracha on ice cream! I'll be trying that this afternoon! Thank you!
It really annoys me when people say "behind every great man is a great woman". Why should women have to be behind while the man is in front?
Periods vary between people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ mine isn't that bad most of the time
Bruh. If you bring up my period when I'm upset, prepare your a*s for my size 10 steel-toed boot. It's going in dry.
YES! If he doesn't respect you from the beginning, he never will.
My parenting style has evolved to "If we don't need emergency services, it can wait. Mommy needs 5 minutes."
I don’t know how to be kind with myself at all. There’s a battle going on in my head everyday between 2 sides. The side that believes that I’m a narcissist and a s****y person and the other side who thinks I’m fine. The wrong side is winning
It makes me mad that so many people with actually good arguments are downvoted because they don't agree with something that's sexist. Portraying women as saints is sexist, portraying men as saints is sexist, saying either is worth less is sexist. Men, women and everyone else is human and should not be judged as a group but as an individual.
Hmm. I am not trying to be rude here, but I don’t see any of these comics that portray all men as jerks? Most of them are encouraging women to have confidence or disagreeing with something SOME men say. Calling out jerks for being jerks doesn’t make all men jerks. I hope I am not offending anyone with this comment, just trying to be positive :)
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It makes me mad that so many people with actually good arguments are downvoted because they don't agree with something that's sexist. Portraying women as saints is sexist, portraying men as saints is sexist, saying either is worth less is sexist. Men, women and everyone else is human and should not be judged as a group but as an individual.
Hmm. I am not trying to be rude here, but I don’t see any of these comics that portray all men as jerks? Most of them are encouraging women to have confidence or disagreeing with something SOME men say. Calling out jerks for being jerks doesn’t make all men jerks. I hope I am not offending anyone with this comment, just trying to be positive :)
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