allofthefeelings:Okay, so here’s the (non-spoilery) thing about Bitch Planet.You know in Hunger...

allofthefeelings:

Okay, so here’s the (non-spoilery) thing about Bitch Planet.

You know in Hunger Games (the book, not the movie), there’s the scene where they wax Katniss’s legs? It’s a small scene that’s both unimportant to the narrative (many people either don’t remember it or don’t dwell on it) and hugely important to how we can perceive the narrative, if we allow ourselves to. Without the attention explicitly drawn, we automatically default to assuming characters have the same beauty expec...