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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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Stardust she/her
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It honestly doesn’t impact you in any way if gay people get married or not. Just let them be happy

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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.

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mooshoflove
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I shouldn't posted my love for real skin textures here! Lol LOVE IT!!!! ❤️🤗👏👏🥰👏

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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."

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Diolla
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, but you have to understand that woman's skin is magical. Men cannot handle themselves if there is too much skin, an they will lose interest if there is too little. /s

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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."

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Cappuccino
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s just this one guy edit : I mean in like all of the comics he says something sexist or insensitive

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Lil Miss Hobbit
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is absolutely true. Dude, you're not competing with other guys, you are competing with my love of sanity, peace, and freedom.

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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!"

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TotallyNOTaFox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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"

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Potato
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone should have a window breaker cuz I guarantee you that lake or river you drove your car into doesn't care which reproductive organs you have (or don't have).

J
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn, I searched it up and it's exactly this way that's fúcked up

Thenatural
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn't even make sense...one is safety at work which applies to both sexes the other is for personal safety..yes it is an absolute tragedy that women need rape alarms etc but there are bad people out there but don't dress this up as a comparison

K W
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The post says "when you Google them". And if you Google it this is pretty accurate. The point being that men in the US typically do not worry about rape and sexual assault happening to them the way women do since it disproportionately affects women.

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DadManBlues
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm very sorry that violence is such a problem in some parts of the world (especially since the Land of the Free is actually so far from peace and freedom), but it will remain so until the manhole is renamed the peoplehole. Or the 'Men at work' sign gets renamed to 'People at work'. In this particular case 'Men's safety items' is a unisex phrase while 'Women's safety items' is not.

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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!

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Chickens_in_bubbles
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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?

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Jellicle bat (he/she/they)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Periods vary between people ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ mine isn't that bad most of the time

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Tracy Wallick
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Gary Geracci
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women are seen by many men as baby factories,That's gotta stop too!

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Stardust she/her
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ridiculousness of the perceived weight issue was fundamental to the plot line. It was deliberately highlighting the very point you're trying to make by comparing it with real life.

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