Dirty Nails, Dirty Wheels

lillezzie:

Emer O’Toole on women, body hair and why she’s stopped shaving

Great to hear this from a femme perspective. This might be the motivation I need to go all in this year!

Well put, Emer O’Toole.

(via ladydanger7)

At the supermarket tonight, as we were fetching bread and ice cream, Jim noticed this line of products. Airbrush Legs. Makeup for legs. To make them look as fake in real life as they do in magazines. We were taken aback by the fact that the company (Sally Hansen) isn’t even a little bit trying to hide the fact that their marketing scheme is to capitalize on the fact that people are widely aware that the people we see in print advertisements are not the same as the people who were photographed for them—and to hold up that inhuman appearance as an ideal of beauty. As if insisting that women shave off their body hair (a marketing-driven trend that only began in 1915, through coercive advertisements, by the way) wasn’t messed-up enough, now they’re supposed to straightup pretend they’ve been airbrushed?

Shit is fucked.

One of the kids I nanny for, during a conversation about how when you’re a grownup, you grow hair in more places, described hair under your arms as “pit beards.” I fuckin’ love it.