I won't be uploading a new picture, though I still fully support the original thoughts and opinions on this meme, mainly because as a teenager I thought I was disgusting "down there" for not having tiny labia, and I have read many other female's accounts of similar confusion over their bodies EVEN NOW in life. So I guess it's terrible if this meme actually reaches out and tries to help anyone.

The majority of people on this site are either too stupid, ignorant, or just plain misunderstanding the point of this whole thing, whether intentional or not, and this is why the Vulva Meme is no place for FA.

Slap some meaning behind it and decide to reveal it's actually your own body you drew? Holy hell, there's a fucking uproar of bullshit. Fortunately in my own personal case, there was much more support than intentional drama elicitation/unwarranted hate, but there were other participants who weren't so lucky (I don't have as many watchers, either.) I mean I knew there would be trolls lurking, they always are, but some of the comments were so insensitive and misunderstood I just didn't understand how someone was actually convinced of this or held this opinion...

For instance, calling us sluts, feminists, saying we were "attention whores" and inadvertently just wanting compliments on our genitals, we were intentionally starting drama for the sake of it, calling the pictures disgusting or otherwise unsightly for the sake of being a blatant asshole... the categories stack up and it's all really sad and ignorant.

This meme was supposed to serve as a celebration of diversity among females, that no two vulva are exactly alike. This is not to say that the popularized vulva is surreal or in any way undesirable (obviously not the case or it wouldn't be popularized!) but it helps for EVERYONE (not just women) to see artful replications of the different types of shapes and sizes that exist outside of porn.

tl;dr - This meme and its goals must be far too complex for the folk of FA.

It was probably just too much to expect FA to be mature enough about something like this -- it is the internet, after all.

This meme I supported because I saw the meaning behind it. It was a very good thing and it is a very educational meme. I myself learned a lot from it apprishated the content as it was. Well that all I have to say.

I can definitely appreciate the differences between bodies. But of course, this is an immature place, so it just gets shot to hell...

I thought it was very brave of you to participate in this meme. I admire that. I know I have my own insecurities about my body, and I also know that I have a good body, I just wish what I know and how I feel about it would match up. I'm sorry to hear that you got shit about this.

I know I have an attractive body. Physically I've got the 'dream body' everyone would want (or so I've been told on several occasions). I only weigh like 105 and don't have overly proportioned hips or breasts, nor do I have what could be considered a pudgy stomach. This I know, and I'm not bragging cause on the other side of things, I don't feel as attractive as I've been told I am. I have always had self-conscience issues about my body, and some of it I blame on my mother. When I was young and she was teaching me about the changes I'd be going through when I hit puberty, she warned me about the high chance I had of getting fat. Her side of the family has always dealt with obesity, so there was a risk that the gene could have passed on to me. Well it didn't, but that still didn't stop me from getting scared to the point of anorexia when I started developing hips. I seriously thought I was getting fat, and I do still suffer from poor mental delusions of how I see my figure and how others see my figure. I wish I could have more confidence and be secure with myself.

This was an education, this was brave. FA, I am disappointed.

The majority's ill reaction to the meme encourages me to discourse on the shamefulness of sexuality in society, but I feel Fur Affinity would be too immature and partly horny to take it seriously.

It's funny I use references in my drawings and don't get shit for it, but if someone uses their body as a reference (or more correctly a trace in this meme)—and makes that a fact—they get shit for it.

You have my full support with this...

I'm sick of all the hate that the female body seems to get here, and around other art sites....