As women, we are still constantly facing discrimination and unfair treatment everywhere. Social pressures, standards, gender norms, and stereotyping that women still can’t break out from. It’s 2020, and women still can’t get equal rights and respect as men in many situations.
Lainey Molnar, a 31-year-old single illustrator, likes to share her thoughts through her skills in drawing. Her particularly favorite subject is to empower beautiful human beings called women. Social pressure exists even around the most modern settings, and she’s bringing awareness that time is changing – it’s really about time women can be free about what they want to be.
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“There’s no cliché movie snapshot face of not being okay.”
“What are we comparing ourselves to? Because ideal body types are illusions.”
“We’re not faulty, we are exactly where we need to be.”
“Life choices don’t range from wrong to right based on societal expectations. No matter how you decide to live your life, or no matter what life decides for you, give everyone else respect and compassion, because we’re all doing our best.”
Molnar is an achieving individual in Hungary, her birth country. She was the first personal blogger who also runs a fashion store that’s related to her blog for eight years. She is now an active digital business strategist who specializes in working with women-owned businesses. She also works with content creators and help create a plan to grow their pages.
“I hug guys with my head bent back like an exorcism patient and still get stains on their shirts.”
“We must not look away for a second as history is being made, we have to keep fighting, but it’s also mandatory to take mental health breaks.”
“I’m very much done with trying to understand the generation who made TikTok a thing.”
“My 2020 mood.”
“I always laughed at the “your metabolism will change with age” type of comments and now I’m unbuttoning my pants at dinner.”
“How do you handle this madness?”
“I still get carded when I buy wine, but… I need to layer the anti-pimple tonic with the anti-wrinkle cream.”
“It’s absolutely okay not to be productive, or be productive 2-3 hours a day and be useless for the rest of it. I promise you will get through it in your own time.”
“Stages of regret.”
“Stop reading the news and bond with your loved ones.”
“Appreciate nice things for what they are, just things. The truly great things in life are really freaking simple.”
Molnar shares that her popularity comes with harassments and that made her take a step back from her blogging activities. It just so happens lockdown took place earlier this year, which gave her enough time to focus and make illustrations. And she did, everything related to social structures and her thoughts about them.
“All of these shapes are beautiful. Bumps, wobbles, stripes, jiggles, curves, muscles, bones – it’s just parts of a vessel to carry around your wonderful soul.”
“The way we dress mirror our personalities, moods, beliefs, and comfort zones, not out moral backgrounds.”
“To my best friend of 26 years, who’s stuck precisely 7,009 km from here, I LOVE YOU!”
“Team garlic?”
“We will emerge our caves in a few months as translucent, pudgy, soft, [sic] alcoholics.”
“Can we talk about butt sweat?”
“Love to mamas and love to childless ladies, we all deserve to follow our hearts without judgement!”
“The aftermath of every single hair wash.”
“Today is a big day for women, another glass ceiling shattered, feeling a little safer for our queer sisters and women of color, and a little more positive about the future.”
Molnar’s drawings focus on the topics of de-stigmatization, whether that’s about a career woman, a childless woman, or mental issues. She often illustrates how her life as an independent 31-year-old can look reckless and unsure, but also at the same time, rewarding and endlessly thrilling. Happiness is not something that we can set for others – it’s something that we find out ourselves.
“Aren’t we done with this freaking year already?”
“Warrior two with a side of cabernet. I hate working out but it seems to be a lot more fun after half a bottle these days.”
“Everything in between is just being confused.”
“Follow people who inspire you, uplift you, make you think, make you laugh!”
“Society’s perceived milestones shouldn’t affect how we view women.”
Molnar understands that there might be people who see those who walk differently from their ‘rules’ and standards may think ‘that won’t work.’ But that’s what Molnar wants to share: that it’s normal for women to make choices differently!
