Waxing Nostalgic
Something I've been trying to formulate for months now: women's hairstyles have seriously changed over the years and, in my infallible opinion on the matter, it's not for the best. It seems that the current trend is for a post-pubescent woman to get her tackle to look as much as a pre-pubescent girl's as she can.
That's just wrong.
Is it a hygienic thing? As one who has a razored scalp can attest, I save a fortune on shampoo and I never have to worry about dandruff, curling irons, or where I keep my hairbrush.
It's actually a time-saver to shave every day or two instead of paying a visit to a barber every four or five weeks. If I get busy at work and skip a couple of days, I still look all right with a little bit of stubble. The problem with keeping the grass off of the south lawn is that if you do it, you have to maintain it rigorously, otherwise you end up with an unsavory (and itchy) quasi-bush, and that's just no good for anybody.
The exact opposite side of the spectrum is the au natural I-don't-own-a-razor approach favored by French actresses and women who live in tribes where they use banana leaves for currency. This at least has the advantage of bragging "this is how God intended you to see my vag." At the same time, it heavily implies that God didn't really intend for you to see a damn thing. Buzzkill.
Perhaps the best solution is the one I have always proffered, the in-between state of pubic hair that is well-maintained but neither sparse nor weedy. Shaping the triangle into, oh, I don't know, something that looks a bit like a triangular shape is a good idea, and I'm sure you can find proponents of the landing strip who make a compelling argument as well.
All I really ask is that women stop sporting that ridiculously skinny vertical line. It's the pencil mustache of feminine pubic hair styles and you need to stop doing that immediately.
Officially, I've never ever seen a woman naked, but allegedly I may have noticed that hair styles were getting seriously out of control in high school when the women in the pages of my favorite periodicals were trending towards baldness. Anymore, it's notably rare to see a girl who isn't a slave to excessive smoothness. That's a tragedy, but at the same time I suppose that until the fashion swings back to bushiness, I'll just have to live my life in dreams of yesterday.
2 comments:
I don't understand it myself, but I can tell you that it isn't particularly hygienic.
But women are always under some kind of pressure to feel like our bodies are gross, and what's more gross than HAIR? EW GET RID OF IT.
That seems to me to be the underlying sentiment.
All I really ask is that women stop sporting that ridiculously skinny vertical line.
I believe this is sometimes referred to as the "Hitler is eating a roast beef sandwich" look.
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