how i feel watching an apocalyptic movie where all the men are clean shaven
This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits
Submitted 2 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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toxicbubble@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The same thing that is lighting the candles in caves and hideouts in Doom and Skyrim. It’s their summer job
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh damn! Great catch, those are definitely one of the details why I could never get into the show. My brain registered it subconsciously without verbalizing it, I just knew I didn’t like it or it felt dumb for some reason.
It was just emo drama happen to be set in a zombie apocalypse setting that wasn’t even believable.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It’s even overgrown directly behind Carl.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
PLANTS vs ZOMBIES
Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
My biggest gripe is when they’re not cleanly shaven, visibly dirty and rugged, and then their teeth are blinding white. Motherfucker even my own teeth don’t fucking blind me and I wash my teeth.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re always “styled dirty”. It’s like when the hero gets a cut, it’s always this cool looking little streak across the cheekbone, or if it’s on the body it’s a perfect 10cm scar on the shoulder, or close by the pelvis so they can show off their abs.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Motherfucker even my own teeth don’t fucking blind me and I wash my teeth.
Maybe you should try brushing instead.
SippyCup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Ghost and the Darkness, Val Kilmer. I enjoyed that movie a lot. But every time that handsome devil smiled it took me right out of 18th century Kenya and straight to 1996 LA TMZ.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Enamels fucking ruined historical dramas for me while we’re at it. Braces too tbh, ohhh we used to have actual snagle teeth in my day 😩
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
they use whitening products to make thier teeth that white. i dint know people did this excessively to thier teeth. it actually damages your teeth in the end.
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I also wash my teeth. Im just using regular dawn right now and my teeth are still yellow too. Maybe I need to try that citrus stuff with the grit in it.
shartgargle@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Bruh, when you’re out in the shit and get a chance to shave, you do it. If you’re used to a certain length, and CANT shave, it’s like #3 on the list of things you dream about when thinking about getting back to civilization. So if you’re always in the shit, you’ll always put it high on the list.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
YOU do. In a survival situation, trust me, that is not one of your bigger concerns.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe they forced her to get laser hair removal when they were messing with her. Super underrated show! I love Dirk Gently, whatever character has screen time at a given moment is my favorite character.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t this scene pre-messing-with, or had she previously been at the CIA facility before the show started?
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
She was imprisoned as a child/teen.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Sorry, which show is this? Dirk Gently’s Holistic etc?
I should re-watch it I guess, it’s been a while. (The lady still looks familiar though)
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, the original books that it’s based off is written by Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
100% guarantee that if she did have armpit hair some other sad bastard would be making a post commenting on it
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure that’s a good enough reason to avoid showing women with body hair in media.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’m not saying it is. Just that you can’t please anybody it seems
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Honestly, this is still an argument in favor of it, in my opinion. Those people only have their opinions because they were normalized at one point in time. If they’re angry with you then you did something right, and hopefully in the next generation that opinion will be even less normalized.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Ah yes, the famous problem of making everyone happy.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Hey some people are onto that!
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
IDK it says BBC America, so I guess the explanation is quite simple.
It’s because Americans are crazy. An having perfectly natural hair under her armpits would be unacceptably disgusting for an American audience.NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or this actress didn’t want to grow out pit hair for a comedy show. Not everything is that deep
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Make-up department exist. It being a deliberate choice by production makes much more sense.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which goes back to the above: “Americans are crazy. An having perfectly natural hair under her armpits would be unacceptably disgusting”
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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:
whatstatersprecious@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes… Americans are to blame for the BBC show…
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It was a BBC America show, which is a subsidiary of AMC Networks.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No Americans are to blame for what was reported about Americans. Because the report is true.
If it was false, BBC would be to blame.
Do you claim the story is false?
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do you make obnoxious broad generalizations about every massively diverse country on earth, or just the USA?
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
aeiou@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
ended too soon :(
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They always have perfectly manicured eyebrows too
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Dirk Gently was so fucking goddamn good.
I miss it.
dregan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s all farty butt-talk, if you ask me.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Forcing actors to grow body hair in their more intimate areas should not be a virtue. That’s weird and over the line and you should be ashamed.
It’s a movie. It’s not a realistic story and shown through a camera, not someone’s real eyes. Suspend your disbelief or leave.
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Right … no need to grow it. You can just attach some fake hair, they have an entire departments for that.
toas3r@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Unless I’m missing a comment from the poster, I don’t think there’s an argument being made to force this actor to grow body hair just for this role.
Just that it’s odd that they’d go through the effort in makeup to make them appear dirty and unkempt, but don’t bother to include body hair. It’s a common practice in makeup to add beards to men to give them a more unkempt appearance, but not armpit or leg hair on women even though most adult women grow hair in these areas.
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This, and I hope that it wasn’t a body hair fetish that triggered this post.
pticrix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Wild to call out a character that suffers from neck-down alopecia. Waow.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I loved this series. Was amazing.
gedfromgont@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
First season was over the top great.
Second season dropped off a bit but still a good watch.
Nighed@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
What is it?
PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not everybody’s armpit hair is dark black and long and curly. This is what my spouse’s armpits would look like whether they had shaved recently or not.
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Let’s not pretend like it’s normal for the media to show women unshaved.
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
So your wives natural unshaved look is shaved. Yep sure there.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Haven’t seen the movie but I bet there are another million things that doesn’t make any sense for a skinny woman to be able to do.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Sexualization of women x sexualization of prepuberty.
It’s pedophilia. You’re welcome.
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You’re not wrong.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
I think the joke was more that she doesn’t know what fruit shampoo is. She was excited to shower, she knows that bathing is even if she doesn’t do it often.
Does that mean she’s removing body hair? No, I get why it seems inconsistent. I do think humans have a very diverse expression of body hair and some people have barely any visible body hair even if they don’t remove it.
If I want to appear hairless I need to shave daily (or more, dark hair on pale skin RIP) whereas I have friends who appear hairless on their legs and armpits unless you get really close. No, it’s not from waxing or laser, it’s just the texture and colour of their body hair.
I’m not trying to suggest this is definitely what is going on here and it would be nice to see a wider expression of appearances in media. Maybe then we’d get over the narrow view of “acceptable” body hair.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My ex of never had to shave anything because she had alopecia. Looked completely normal from the neck up but from the neck down the only place she grew hair was in the crotch, and even that was thin and faint.
Her legs and pits were naturally hairless.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’d be hotter if she didn’t.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Maybe it was just luck that her pits are shaved.
TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think I figured out the mentality. It’s Barbie dolls. They all still subconsciously want to look like a barbie doll. and this is some DEEP subconscious conditioning too. (Exception for folks with alopecia, of course)
Pappabosley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Somebody has a kink 👆
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not everything about women has to be sexualized.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
They nipped out the non-head hair genes during the cloning, duhhhhhhhhhhh
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Maybe she uses a sharpened clamshell. That’s what I heard the Native Americans used to shave. It always sounded ridiculous to me. A sharpened clam shell?
cabillaud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A clam shell is more effective than an anvil.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You have to trap a fresh bee in it every morning.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
maybe she was shot with lasers that killed the roots…
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
I’m AMAB and I barely grow armpit hair at all. Barely a few strands. I’ve also never grown a beard or chest hair.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I knew it!
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Alopecia of the armpits?
vane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That was holistic shaving
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
There’s this story that Mark Hammil tells about being on the set of Star Wars and he mentions to Harrison Ford that their hair should be wet, since it was just wet in the previous scene.
And Ford says something like, “This ain’t that kind of movie, kid. If the audience is talking about our hair, something has already gone wrong.”
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I actually really like that line. I remember watching the latest Star Wars trilogy and just nitpicking. I’m not a super fan, I don’t even own anything Star Wars. But, the movies kept pulling out stupid takes that my suspension of disbelief was gone and I kept focusing on hyper details.
I also like that Harrison Ford calls everyone kid.
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Mark Hammil does an excellent Harrison Ford impression, so there’s a possibility that the “kid” is part of the impression, rather than a direct quote. Also, I was doing the quote from memory, so it’s also possible that I remembered it wrong.
But I also like the thought that Harrison Ford calls everyone kid.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Please remember that Star Wars was released in 1977. It absolutely blew people’s minds because they were doing something that had nobody had ever seen before. You can’t nitpick it the same way you can Marvel slop in 2026, there was so many ground breaking things, most of all it was a genuinely alien experience because we hadn’t really seen such a well designed intergalactic society and world building before, that all the minor stuff is genuinely just nitpicks for what the greater story was.
It’s like finding flaws in a renaissance painting, or the Iliad, or classical opera- which is a fitting comparison considering SW is the definition of space opera, down to containing one of the most genuinely masterful, memorable, and well crafted scores of all time.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Rise of Skywalker gave everyone what they wanted.
If you watched it wanting a fun action adventure movie, it gave you what to wanted.
If you wanted a movie you could nitpick and complain about on the internet, it gave you what you wanted.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ford’s attitude about the films has always just pissed me off. If you don’t like something, which you clearly don’t, why you do it in the first place?
Hell, I’d argue his career wouldn’t be what it became without star wars and he should at least be able to acknowledge that.
He always just comes off as “I’m better than you, I’m better than this franchise, I’m better than anything”
Christopher Eccleston famously hated Dr who, and he never seems to say a negative thing about it. Plenty of MCU actors hate the MCU, they don’t talk shit, and I can’t see them talking shit about them for several decades either.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Ford struggled with anxiety and imposter syndrome early on, and developed his tough, flippant exterior around that as a coping mechanism. So there are a lot of stories about him saying callous, tough guy things. But he’s quite a softie who really loves the art of acting, so I don’t think he’s really dismissing everything and everyone outright.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think Ford’s attitude is similar to Guinness’ attitude - it’s not that he hates Star Wars, it’s that he hates that it’s completely overshadowed his other work and nobody ever talks to him about any other part of his career.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean I don’t love my job but I keep showing up for the paycheck.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
its my understanding that he hated Russell T Davis because Davis was abusive to the staff.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it paid more than carpentry. No, really.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
MCU is genuinely mass market slop though. I cannot believe people watch that drivel, and I judge people who do. That’s all I have to say on the matter, good day, Sir, I SAID GOOD DAY.