• Plum@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Body hair is deeply stigmatized. Bodies and bodily functions are stigmatized.

    It’s the same reason why sanitary pad commercials use clear blue liquid for absorptive demonstrations and not body temperature strawberry preserves. Or heaven forfend actual uterine lining…

    Smiling happy women reclining in a bath, shaving off foam to reveal glossy perfect legs, is shorthand for the reality of what actually happens.