Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or this actress didn’t want to grow out pit hair for a comedy show. Not everything is that deep

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Make-up department exist. It being a deliberate choice by production makes much more sense.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s very possible it just never came up. Especially if it’s a male-run production. The male gaze just assumes a woman doesn’t have pit hair, and if she doesn’t think of it and bring it up, nobody does.

      She probably takes her hairless pits for granted through long habit as we ll.

      The rest of the job is basically rub “mud” product through her hair and all over her body. More attention paid to the face for closeups. (She’s got lipstick and contouring and probably mascara as well, a “no makeup” makeup.) Should some makeup artist have thought of it and glued some hair trimmings to her pits? Yes. But while it would be easy in this scene/pose, it would be uncomfortable and easily shed during scenes where she needs to use her arms, and then you run into continuity problems. (I don’t know the show but I assume she doesn’t spend the whole time crucified like that)

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s probably a merkin for pits, or there could be. That would have been funny.

    I just learned there’s a fly, for fly fishing, called the strong arm merkin. Yes, they’re furry:

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Anyway “Pit Merkin” is a great metal band name, you’re fuckin’ welcome

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which goes back to the above: “Americans are crazy. An having perfectly natural hair under her armpits would be unacceptably disgusting”

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    • velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t want to accurately portray women’s natural bodies lest they think it might be acceptable to be unshaven.

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      • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Or maybe she, the actress, prefers it, and she, the actress, didn’t want to change something superficial for the show.

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      • Gaslov@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Natural body is a polite way of framing ungroomed. Men nor women like seeing poor hygiene. Some types of poor hygiene are seen as worse than others. Dirty hair? Sorta gross. Body hair? Disgusting.

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know American women with armpit hair, I don’t retch when I see them

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      • velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As an American woman with armpit hair, I get a lot of unsolicited comments.

        It would be nice if there were more representation of adult women’s bodies in media.

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