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lionoralamb discovered this in Feminism
•17 reviews since Jan 19, 2008
feminism, hair, beauty
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meghanelaine rated 4 months ago- I hate shaving. Also the argument wasn't that it was unhygenic, just that advertisers' efforts to paint shaving as a hygienic necessity are false. Especially when the hair appears on a female's toes.
- m2hnj rated 4 months ago
- Gaahhh. Someone tell the author to shut the fuck up. I don't, for a second, believe that shaving is unhygienic. It's a personal choice, and I don't give a flying fuck about what other people choose to do, but no one should be chastised for their decision to shave or not. Now hand me a razor.
- sintronbot rated 5 months ago
- gosh, i hate shaving. if i get lazy with that though, i get so many comments from my family about it. what a pointless, misogynistic behavior. i'll continue it, though. in my opinion making a statement that no one takes seriously and you only get grief for is not worth it. submission.
- Brad324 rated 5 months ago
- so are the razor companies convincing women to get their boyfriends to shave their asses?
- droe82 rated 5 months ago
- Q: Why would all women need to artificially remove their hair if hairlessness were actually a feminine characteristic?
A: The razor-and-blades business model. - Q: Why would all women need to artificially remove their hair if hairlessness were actually a feminine characteristic?
- dornorozeto rated 5 months ago
- See, no one believes me when I tell them that female shaving is simply a really successful marketing ploy. Hairy-legged women unite!
- bobbyvardar rated 5 months ago
- I am continually baffled that female body hair is so widely deplored.
- risforrun rated 5 months ago
- Christine Hope argues that hair removal is a subtle push to return women to a child-like body, "to consider women as less than adults." I don't know why this is tagged as "feminism." It should just be tagged as common sense.
- magic1x3 rated 5 months ago
- YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
- M-Nome rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "Sears Roebuck stores began selling sheer-sleeved dresses in 1922 and not-so coincidentally, the first women's razors showed up for sale in their fall 1922 catalogue8. Ads from the mid-20s typically put equal emphasis on underarm and leg hair removal. The World War II-era shortening of skirts further helped advertisers' thrust for leg hair removal, and "[b]y the middle of the century, attention had been drawn to lower parts of the anatomy and a tanned, shapely, hairless leg was a thing of beauty," Hope observes in her inventory of Harper's and McCall's magazines' hair-removal ads . Body hair removal had become a norm, as well as a public discourse, as evidenced by the headline of one of the McCall's ads in the early 1940s: "Let's Look at Your Legs--Everyone Else Does."10 Due to these marketing coups, female body hair removal has become a contemporary, largely unquestioned staple of fashion." A section from an excellent blog exposing the true roots and meanings of "hair removal," as well as insight as to how and why we've been fooled into believing in this little ritual.
