Wax Off...
Nothing has frozen me dead in my tracks quite like this pronouncement, spoken quickly in a heavy Russian accent: "Take off your jeans and underwear and lie down on the table. You want Brazilian wax, no?"
Followed up quickly with this one: "How you expect me wax you with your jeans still on?! Take off!"
Why is this worth it? Couldn't answer that question. But it is.
It got me thinking.
The whole idea used to make me angry. I watched 'The Vagina Monologues' several years ago and part of the monologue addressed the waxing issue. How it made sex uncomfortable because of abrasion to the skin and that the hair was there for a reason and why is the female body only appreciated when certain things are done to it to make it acceptable?
I consider myself a feminist. As Jodie Foster says, "With a capital F."
I accept myself fully with hairy legs, hairy pits, etc. But I make a choice to shave it or wax it. Because I can.
Which is why I have come to this conclusion: I did it because I like it. For several reasons of which I won't go into detail but which do serve me well. Part of being a "F"eminist, in my opinion, is that women have the rights and the freedoms (that the previous generation worked tooth and nail for) to do what we want with and to our bodies.
I leave you with a somewhat fitting quote:
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ~Sally Kempton, attributed
Followed up quickly with this one: "How you expect me wax you with your jeans still on?! Take off!"
Why is this worth it? Couldn't answer that question. But it is.
It got me thinking.
The whole idea used to make me angry. I watched 'The Vagina Monologues' several years ago and part of the monologue addressed the waxing issue. How it made sex uncomfortable because of abrasion to the skin and that the hair was there for a reason and why is the female body only appreciated when certain things are done to it to make it acceptable?
I consider myself a feminist. As Jodie Foster says, "With a capital F."
I accept myself fully with hairy legs, hairy pits, etc. But I make a choice to shave it or wax it. Because I can.
Which is why I have come to this conclusion: I did it because I like it. For several reasons of which I won't go into detail but which do serve me well. Part of being a "F"eminist, in my opinion, is that women have the rights and the freedoms (that the previous generation worked tooth and nail for) to do what we want with and to our bodies.
I leave you with a somewhat fitting quote:
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ~Sally Kempton, attributed
2 Comments:
Ouchie! Ouchie ouchie ouchie!
"why is the female body only appreciated when certain things are done to it to make it acceptable"
I know you didn't say it, but I think that applies to both sexes. When was the last time you dated a guy who hadn't shaved his face since he was 16? Like never. Why? Cuz Grizzly Adams was a lonely, lonely man... except for the bears.
Both sexes get haircuts, get unsightly moles removed and do many, many other things to their bodies to make them acceptable (uh, the gym). In fact, the metrosexual revolution (which IS televised and is fa-b-ulous!) has brought "manscaping" to the most unseemly men!
So don't you listen to those hairy feminists (who are probably still getting their hair cut and moles removed) you do what you need to make you feel comfortable and attractive! When it comes down to it, that is all that counts!
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