D: D: D:

[aesc]

There is not enough WTF in the world for this.


Before there was Summer's Eve, there was...



Again I say: D: D: D:

I mean seriously, anything that strongly suggests you use rubber gloves while applying it to various surfaces should probably not be put inside you. For all I know, Lysol might be a great feminine hygeine product, but still, what's next? Shaving your legs with a straight razor? *cringes*

And then there's this, which makes me so so happy I'm alive right now:



Just... no. No thank you. I like to think the woman's thinking, "Vitamins, and also the fact that soon I will kill you, bury you with quicklime, and run off to Tijuana."

I'll be over here now, doing... something.

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[rilestar.livejournal.com]

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Although, sometimes I think we really haven't come that far...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

In my "glass is half-full moments," I tell myself that at least I will only have (roughly) twice the difficulty in winning tenure than my male counterpart as opposed to, say, the almost futile endeavor it was thirty years ago.

[rilestar.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps if you were to use Lysol you would improve those chances even further ...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'll try that and let you know how it goes :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_elvie/]

I agree with you. The media is still telling us that we filthy women have to be disinfected/plucked/surgically modified before those delicate gentlemanfolk will deign to look at us.

However, I'm a complete hypocrite - I hate that women's bodies au naturel inspire such revulsion, yet I do the cleansing waxing and polishing thing because I'm afraid I'll be considered a beast if I don't. Bah.

[rilestar.livejournal.com]

I remember thinking, when Brazilian waxes became popular, "Oh, great! Yet another way for society to say: 'Hey, Adult Woman - you're just not right the way you are!'" First, we're meant to spend hours of our time and all of our money on make-up and clothes (to hide who we are and project a 'desirable' image), then we need to not let on that we're intelligent (so that men don't feel threatened), and now we're meant to wax our entire body so that we can become sexually desirable by resembling pre-pubescent children!

Oh, well. I'm far too stubborn and lazy to go to all that effort. My plan is to be Crazy Cat Lady. I even have the action figure!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

and now we're meant to wax our entire body so that we can become sexually desirable by resembling pre-pubescent children!

I have always found that so unbearably disturbing, that the female sexual ideal is big-breasted but, with regard to the rest of her body, completely de-sexed. And when it doesn't disturb me, it angers me.

[rilestar.livejournal.com]

And when it doesn't disturb me, it angers me.

AMEN.
And it saddens me, too, in that it is unquestioned by so many younger women. It's just the norm, like shaving legs was for my age group (and yeah, I do shave my legs ... can't stand the itch!) My colleague has two daughters, 17 and 19, and to them the Brazilian is completely normal - it's never occurred to them to do otherwise. It wouldn't occur to them that others might not do it, or might have objections to it...

I hate it when people don't think. :-(

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However, I'm a complete hypocrite - I hate that women's bodies au naturel inspire such revulsion, yet I do the cleansing waxing and polishing thing because I'm afraid I'll be considered a beast if I don't.

I'm the same way. I don't wax, other than my eyebrows, but shaving? I once tried to go for a week without it and I could not do it. And it's crazy because I remember when I first started, I hated it. I seriously, seriously hated it, and wore jeans all the time just so I wouldn't have to shave any more than necessary.

I'm not sure when that changed... My senior year of high school, maybe, and it's disturbing that I can't remember exactly how I transitioned from DO NOT WANT to "omfGOD I need my Gilette Venus and gentle foaming body wash!!!"