Friday, December 28, 2012

Caitlin Moran: On Female Pubic Hair

Not surprisingly, Caitlin Moran holds the same opinions I do regarding female pubic hair and its political importance and connection to consumerism.  A few selections from How to Be a Woman:

"Hair is the opening salvo in decades of quietly screaming 'WHO AM I?' while standing in front of an array of products in the drugstore, clutching an empty basket."

"Pubic hair must be confined to a very small area or, increasingly, removed completely…While some use the euphemism 'Brazilian' to describe this state of affairs, I prefer to call it what it is--'a ruinously high-maintenance, itchy, cold-looking child's vagina.'"

"'I remember when it was all furry round here,' I will say sadly in the changing rooms of the gym, surrounded by smooth, pink genitals. 'Hairy toots as far as the eye could see. Wild and untamable. An arbor of nature. Playground of my youth. I used to spend hours there. Now…now it's all waxed and empty.  All the wildlife has gone. The bulldozers have moved in. They're going to build a new Safeway, there, on the vaginas.'"

"It is now accepted that women will wax. We never had a debate about it. It just happened--and we never thought to discuss it."

"I can't believe we've got to a point where its basically costing us money to have a vagina. They're making us pay for maintenance and upkeep of our lulus, like they're a communal garden. It's a stealth tax. Muff excised…God DAMN you, mores of pornography that have made it into my undies. GOD DAMN YOU."

"The real reason all porn stars wax is because, if you remove all the fur, you can see more when you're doing penetrative shots. And that's it. This gigantic, billion-dollar Western obsession with Brazilians and Hollywoods, which millions of normal women have to time events in their lives around, endure pain and inconvenience for…is all down to the technical considerations of cinematography."

"The crotch, the upper lip, and the armpit are miles apart…What happens to them, and why, is wholly different--primarily because armpits aren't intimately associated with sexual maturity, or, indeed, sexuality at all…So what you do with your armpits is just an aesthetic concern--and not really part of the Struggle."

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