It’s no secret that language is hardly kind to women; our body parts are synonymous with insults, and the compliments aren’t much better. Either way, everyday phrases reduce women to their bodies again and again — a trend that the photo series Words for Women by Anna Friemoth skewers using cartoonish, surreal portraits of the ways we subtly disparage femininity. Each photograph is a literal depiction of labels for women, from “golddigger” to “sugar t*ts,” and the results highlight just how ridiculous such language can be — but also how important it can be to laugh about it every once in a while

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