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Ok. I thought I could forget about this and not make it a big deal, but it's still irritating me, and this is my journal, so hey.
STANDARD DISCLAIMER APPLIES. What follows is my opinion, and only my opinion. As such, feel free to have a different one, but don't attack me for mine.
I keep hearing this ad for a spa on the radio, and it really grates against my feminist nerves. (Such as they are.)
Here's the ad, paraphrased: "American women will spend, on average, 150 hours of their lives waxing, shaving, and otherwise hating their body hair. If you come to *the spa we're advertising* we'll do all that waxing for you, and then you'll have oodles of free time, which you can use to go shopping."
Now, there are three things wrong with this,
1. It assumes that all women hate their body hair. Now, I'm no hippie non-shaver, but I know that they exist. Furthermore, what if I feel lukewarm about my body hair? Or just a slight distaste for it? Or only mild irritation with it? Don't go telling me how I feel about my body.
2. It assumes that only women have hair that they would like to remove from their bodies. Because there are no men in the world with unsightly back hair. No male bicyclists shave their legs. There are no male models that have their chests waxed. Obviously the makers of this ad have never seen The 40 Year Old Virgin.
3. This is the most infuriating one. This ad states, and I am not making this up, that if women had more free time, they would use it to GO SHOPPING. Not finish their Biology homework, or work on a cure for cancer, or even spend more time with their friends, or read, or hire a male prostitute to get them off. Nope. They'd go shopping. Why don't they just go the whole way then, and, since they know so much about women, tell us that what we'll be shopping for will obviously be lingere, so we can convince our husbands to knock us up, so we can bear their sons, and then have dinner on the table by 5:00.
I know it's just a stupid ad, but it makes me so mad. I do not hate my body hair, I do not want to go shopping, and I resent being generalized about like that.
Now I'm going to go do my Biology homework, so I can grow up to be an awesome biologist, cure AIDS, win a nobel prize, become rich and famous and not have to work anymore, and then use my free time to learn how to ride horses, and get a motorcycle license, and read The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and NEVER SHOP AGAIN. I will pay people to do it for me.
STANDARD DISCLAIMER APPLIES. What follows is my opinion, and only my opinion. As such, feel free to have a different one, but don't attack me for mine.
I keep hearing this ad for a spa on the radio, and it really grates against my feminist nerves. (Such as they are.)
Here's the ad, paraphrased: "American women will spend, on average, 150 hours of their lives waxing, shaving, and otherwise hating their body hair. If you come to *the spa we're advertising* we'll do all that waxing for you, and then you'll have oodles of free time, which you can use to go shopping."
Now, there are three things wrong with this,
1. It assumes that all women hate their body hair. Now, I'm no hippie non-shaver, but I know that they exist. Furthermore, what if I feel lukewarm about my body hair? Or just a slight distaste for it? Or only mild irritation with it? Don't go telling me how I feel about my body.
2. It assumes that only women have hair that they would like to remove from their bodies. Because there are no men in the world with unsightly back hair. No male bicyclists shave their legs. There are no male models that have their chests waxed. Obviously the makers of this ad have never seen The 40 Year Old Virgin.
3. This is the most infuriating one. This ad states, and I am not making this up, that if women had more free time, they would use it to GO SHOPPING. Not finish their Biology homework, or work on a cure for cancer, or even spend more time with their friends, or read, or hire a male prostitute to get them off. Nope. They'd go shopping. Why don't they just go the whole way then, and, since they know so much about women, tell us that what we'll be shopping for will obviously be lingere, so we can convince our husbands to knock us up, so we can bear their sons, and then have dinner on the table by 5:00.
I know it's just a stupid ad, but it makes me so mad. I do not hate my body hair, I do not want to go shopping, and I resent being generalized about like that.
Now I'm going to go do my Biology homework, so I can grow up to be an awesome biologist, cure AIDS, win a nobel prize, become rich and famous and not have to work anymore, and then use my free time to learn how to ride horses, and get a motorcycle license, and read The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and NEVER SHOP AGAIN. I will pay people to do it for me.