Attention all men who make up crappy excuses to avoid wearing condoms: Swedish singer Zara Larsson has some words for you — and one pointed Instagram photo.
Zara Larsson, 17, posted a picture on Instagram of her stretching a condom over her leg all the way up to her knee, with the caption, “To all the guys saying ‘my dick is too big for condoms’ TAKE A SEAT.”
The photo quickly went viral among her 488,000 followers, and media outlets hailed it as brilliantly feminist. But in a blog post on her website, Larsson writes that newspapers calling her a “feminist genius” do not know what a feminist really is.
“I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism. … I am fully aware that there are many, many girls who are better than me at these so extremely many ways and who receive little attention.”
And she’s absolutely right. Calling outguys who won’t wear condoms because they think they’re massively endowed isn’t really feminist. Feminism, as we know, is about equality between the sexes, centered on serious causes like shrinking the gender wage gap and putting an end to rape and domestic violence. It’s not about man-bashing (although plenty of people sadly still see it that way).
So classifying this admittedly hilarious photo op as feminist belittles the real meaning of feminism. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get a chuckle out of taking guys whose egos are bigger than their dicks down a peg. You go Zara, feminist Instagrammer or not.
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