I think that the difference is that I make that choice without expecting others to make it too and without thinking I am "dirty" if I don't. Plus? I think hairy boy parts deserve a chance for waxing too. Dammit.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Jul 02, 2007 9:39:12 am PDT #5936 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Trudy Booth - Jul 02, 2007 9:39:21 am PDT #5937 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
And yet, I wax from time to time. Does this make me a hypocrite?
I'd think the full monty wax would lose some of its charm if it were an always thing.
§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 9:40:38 am PDT #5938 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd think the full monty wax would lose some of its charm if it were an always thing.
The people I know that do it consider it just that.
Steph L. - Jul 02, 2007 9:41:11 am PDT #5939 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Plus? I think hairy boy parts deserve a chance for waxing too. Dammit.
Heh. Having had the "I'm NOT shaving my parts!" / "I don't care if you don't, but do you care if I *do*?" conversation, my feeling is that, as long as everyone is happy with the level of hairy- or hairlessness, then rock on.
Toddson - Jul 02, 2007 9:41:52 am PDT #5940 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And then, when caught NOT wearing undies, there's a fuss.
edited not realizing there were going to be a bunch of comments between ita's about the things people do to avoid looking like they're wearing undies.
Strix - Jul 02, 2007 9:42:42 am PDT #5941 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think of waxing like a manicure or pedicure...nice if you have a special occasion or it's barefoot season, but otherwise, just file and buff.
Er...currently occupied trying to think of the genital equivalent of filing and buffing, and it's all rather...odd. Like Steph says, warm water daily and a little Ivory oughta be enough.
Glamcookie - Jul 02, 2007 9:42:52 am PDT #5942 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Ha! Hysterical as I was going to come and ask about waxing this very day (in Bitches, though). I never have but I have a beach trip coming up and am considering it for that (no full on wax, just bikini line). Those what have waxed, how long does it last? Do you still have to do any sort of razor maintenance?
Strix - Jul 02, 2007 9:44:46 am PDT #5943 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Depends on your state of hairiness. Some One friend is super hirstute; it lasts like three days (I mean she has a hormone-imbalance hirstute.)
Other friends, it's pretty smooth for a couple of weeks.
Glamcookie - Jul 02, 2007 9:48:12 am PDT #5944 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Hmmm, yeah I can't decide whether to try it or not. When I'm in a bathing suit, I must shave every day. PITA. But does that mean a wax won't last? It's kind of like LASIK - I don't want to do it if I still need contacts (or shaving in this case), you know?
ETA: I am lol at the thought of the Buffista guys reading this convo. Sorry, dudes!
Vortex - Jul 02, 2007 9:51:45 am PDT #5945 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
And if any under-30 Buffista wants to pipe up and reassure me that these in fact were a bunch of nutbars and that most sane under-30s don't in fact equate nude goolies with handwashing and flossing, I'd be much reassured.
okay, not under 30, but weighing in anyway. If you want to wax, fine. Just don't do it because you feel that you have to. I don't wax (except for that one time and I will NEVER do it again, the itching from the regrowth almost drove me mad), I trim it neatly, but that's for hygiene purposes and once an errant hair got caught between the vaginal lips and rubbed quite unpleasantly, and I was not in a position to take care of it (white font for gross TMI).
I shave my pits, not because I feel like I have to, but because I sweat less, I use less deoderant and therefore don't stain shirts as much.