53, Crass Sahved Women

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Shaved women collaborators
Shaved women are they traitors?
Dead bodies all around
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Shaved women instigators
Shaved women are they traitors?
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Shaved women shooting dope
Shaved women disco dancing
Screaming babies
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Shaved women collaborators
Shaved women are they traitors?
Shaved women all around
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Shaved women instigators
Shaved women are they traitors?
Screaming babies
Screaming babies
Shaved women shooting dope
Shaved women disco dancing
Screaming babies
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In all our decadence people die
In all our decadence people die
In all our decadence people die
In all our decadence people die,

"At the end of WW2 in some countries women had their heads shaved to indicate that they were 'collaborators' when they were raped etc. Left to fend for themselves and to raise the kids, many had to sell their bodies and so on in order to survive. This only touches the subject and i'll let you make your own observations.

Funnily enough - not funny at all - in Aberdeen, the women who were left as the men went to fight, maybe made themselves avaible to US servicemen so they could feed the kids etc were locked up in local mental establishments after the war as a form of punishment. Some never got out."

Let's not be silenced any longer. Most women have bristling legs, arms and armpits. The idea that we must pluck, shave, wax or otherwise remove body hair to achieve the smoothness of a baby's bottom is impractical and destructive. As Mimi Spencer writes in The Age, an Australian publication, "What woman doesn't abhor the eggy smell of depilatory cream, the searing pain of a blunt razor dragged up her shinbone, or the embarrassment of opening the door to the postman with crème bleach still clinging to her upper lip?"1 As long as we accept this social norm without question, the development of ever more torturous methods of hair removal will continue. Consider the Brazilian bikini wax, "which was surely developed in Hades, but (get this) has actually received good press from the world's ditzy beauty editors. Not only is it a humbling and hideous experience, during which you proffer your undercarriage to an unknown shop girl, it also hurts like the bayjesus."1

Shockingly, women's transition to shaving occurred without significant protest. Before the 1900s, only men shaved. Around 1915, however, sleeveless dresses became popular, opening up a whole new field of female vulnerability for marketers to exploit. By 1920, the Gillette Razor Company, which continues to cater to the shaving habits of today's women and men, had ingrained in women the idea that underarm hair is unnecessary and objectionable, and needs to be "smoothed out."2 Later, as swimming evolved from a recreational activity to a ritual requiring women to "flaunt their stuff," swimsuits became fashion statements and leg hair was shunned. Thus, shaving became a cultural norm.

While contemporary women are not literally forced to depilate, the culture and media pressure us to do so. Those women with enough guts to challenge the status quo and free themselves from the shackles of a sexist society are stigmatized. They face judgments that others escape by complying to and personifying the behaviors and attitudes expected of them by their peers. Not only are they condemned by others, but they sometimes internalize others' perceptions of them. The views associated with "slut feminism," have made it even more difficult to challenge the expectation that we be "babes" and hairless [except for a sexy hairstyle.]

Thus, the past 35 years of feminism have not ended the endless duty of depilation. The fashion and modeling industries amplify the problem by reinforcing the "established aesthetic that dictates women be hipless, breastless, and above all, hairless."1 Consider the physical characteristics of preadolescent children-they are strikingly similar to the current beauty ideal for adult women. Because men value childlike traits in adult women, some men probably become confused when they perceive, either consciously or subconsciously, the (artificial) resemblance between children and adult women. A man who is socialized to become erotically aroused by an infantilized woman may be primed to also become erotically aroused by children. Whereas some foreign cultures celebrate the growth of body hair as a mark of puberty and womanhood, the "rite of passage" for girls hi the U.S. is shaving the hair that sprouts at adolescence. We are, essentially, infantilized. Children's skin is typically smooth, clean, and hairless; these very features are what adult women so ardently strive for. Likewise, the ideal woman is traditionally pure, submissive, and childlike. Thus, women have been conditioned to believe that in order to please men, they must live up to the quintessential model of the perfect woman and embody the character traits that make her ; desirable. Hence, when women shave their legs, they unconsciously send a message that they "live to please and please to live."3 Those who disapprove and opt not to participate in the attitudes and activities seen as "appropriate" for their gender are branded "unnatural" or "deviant." Perhaps these brave women recognize the link between hair removal and pedophilia.

Possibly the most convincing argument against hair removal is the exorbitant amount of time wasted on it. Take, for example, the typical summer beach excursion. A man can slip on his swim trunks and hightail it out to the beach whenever the mood strikes him. A woman, on the other hand, needs time to prepare. She shaves, waxes and plucks until the only hair that remains is on her head (above the nose, because she might-gasp!-be harboring some fine dark hair on her upper lip!). This preparation can take hours, and can be extremely expensive. Razors, shaving gel, shaving cream, shaving mitts, soothing cream, electrolysis, waxing kits for the face, for the body, for the bikini line, and depilatory creams with aloe vera, vitamin E, and cooling agents to ease the burning sensation (but that's "ok" because it smells like sun-ripened raspberries). These products cost as little as five dollars and as much as five hundred dollars. Why the fuss? Instead of trying to eradicate the stubble and fuzz that stubbornly elude our ceaseless efforts, we should channel our time, energy, and money into more worthwhile causes.

It's time to reexamine once again the harm in perpetuating the cultural practice of depilation. In the next 35 years of feminism, we should reprioritize, and remove the gender straightjackets, such as female shaving, plucking, and waxing, that keep us from developing into full individuals. We must combat the oppressive and burdensome pressure that requires us to remove our body hair to gain acceptance. We must further develop feminisms that don't buy into what the media moguls tell us we have to look like, and develop sexualities that don't require us to be "sexy" and hairless.