July 9, 2003 // 1:36 a.m. When did dress-up turn to fashion? O my goodness dude!! your disgusting!!!! Ew!!!! I dont even like seeing guys with armpit hair!!! but i cna deal with that i mean they all have it but!! when girls dont shave!!! thats sooo sick!! dude u've got serious problems!!!!! okay. learn how to construct an argument. or even just how to spell. for the love of. my sister is coming over tomorrow. we have nothing in common. that is, we have exactly opposite definitions of the word natural. i think i shall wear a tank top tomorrow. in august, we are going to see john mayer and counting crows together. she wants to set me up with one of her guy friends - who is almost thirty and, from what i can tell, as unlike me as she is. perhaps another good occasion for a tank top. i'm not up for a long entry tonight; i just wanted to share the following, because it has genuinely surprised everyone i've told so far: women in america have only been shaving their pits since 1915, the result of a huge marketing campaign instigated by harper's bazaar. the practice of shaving women's legs came about much later and was less widespread. maybe your grandma was the first in your family to shave anything - maybe your mother. it's pretty much only america, britain and the english-speaking parts of canada where the majority of female citizens shave. as with everything in our society it is all marketing, it is all about subjugation, and everyone falls for it! it astounds me that i may walk into summit mall tomorrow evening and people will gape at my cute little tank-topped self and think i am unclean, i am disgusting, i am a man-hating bitch of a lesbian. and my sister will walk beside me and agree with them. it's all about choice. you can decide whether you want to shave or not. you can decide about makeup. about your clothes. about the books you read and the bumper stickers you put on your car. you can choose to stop caring what anyone thinks. god, it's taking me forever, but i swear we can find a way to be individuals. and you can think i'm not a real woman if i refuse to shave. but i know i'm not a real human if i have to. the meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the
matter of her own prescription. thereby she defines her humanity. |