random things

[forgotten_aria]

T-mobile is now offically supporting and selling my phone.

Rio looks like it's goign to be another year for it comes out with a 40gig player.

I'm annoyed that we live in a society where women not shaving their legs is some how unhygenic. I don't mind it not being the fashion, but I don't like to have to worry that someone thinks I'm unclean because I'm female and don't shave my legs.

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[76trombones.livejournal.com]

Unhy... huh? I don't think I've heard that one yet. (I have, however, certainly heard other things on the topic!) Sigh.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

mrow? I've never had anyone accuse me of uncleanliness because of it. I've had more people complain about the underarm hair than the legs. They say it makes me sweat more. I say that if I shave it I get a nasty rash and usually they shut up.

[bob-wonderllama.livejournal.com]

meh, shaved legs are over-rated.

most of the time they're all stubbly and ouchie anyways

[bluepapercup]

I've heard that rationale for pits but never legs. Pop culture sucks big sharp rocks through a bendy straw. I spent a long time not shaving anything, and didn't go back to shaving b/c anyone said to, I just personally like it. *looks down at legs* and right now I'm sporting 10-day stubble. Ach. the movies can stuff it.

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

The armpit thing is really bogus, too. Even if Americans could (or would--Byly is available in the US) buy a deodorant that actually worked, it would still not be a non-issue. It is the pit mouse that is the target of the objection, not the hygiene. Doctors assume that a woman who does not shave must be ill because it is, to them, a sign of self-neglect and they assume that because she isn't taking care of her personal appearance, it is a valid diagnostic observation leading to a diagnosis (DSM IV) of depression, dementia, substance abuse, or schizophrenia.
I actually had the experience of seeing a doctor recoil at the sight of armpit hair.

It's really a craziness, though, because women are supposed to look--bodyhairwise--sexually immature, but then that distortion is combined with the overt sexuality of the disturbed gait from high heels and the face painting.

There is something wrong with a society that deems half its population defective because hair grows in their armpits, and the other half defective because it grows on their faces.

Aha--a conspiracy. The Ew Factor is all a plot to sell more razor blades and shaving goop. It is likely associated with the rinse-and-repeat myth.
Segue to . . .
Where is there a shampoo that doesn't have laurel in it? What does one do if one is allergic to laurel? And where is all that laurel being grown?