When "Wonder woman", the film directed by Patty Jenkins was shown on the screens at the first time on June 07, 2017, the critics had raised a remark that made controversy. The heroine of the same name raised to wild life had indeed no hair in the armpits.
What's more normal for a woman will you say. Yet the main character had been a sort of savage trained in the art of war. So It seems strange in such a context that a savage has no hair. In fact feminists argue that as an Amazon her legs and underarms should be visibly hairy. Maybe like this as one tiwitter user suggested
But why does the hair in women cause so much repulsion in our modern society?
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the US, the cinema industry and advertisers working for razor blade brands devised slogans to conquer the new market of women. They undermine that is not hygienic, not beautiful and not feminine to have hairs on the body. Shaving the hairs of armpit thus made women "younger therefore they resembled the virgin young girls. This argument diffused is" the myth of women's eternal youth" that must be preserved. So our society, through magazines, films and advertising, has thus eradicated the hair of the woman. It is a whole culture of the "hairless woman" that has emerged, generating strong social pressure on all women: most think that to be truly feminine, and therefore attractive, a woman should have no hair visible. Nowadays, most of the women depilate for "reasons of hygiene".
But feminist movements work against that trend. They argue that hair removal is very painful and causes allergies in many women. For them the hair is the symbol of the Woman. Indeed, what distinguishes a prepubertal girl from an adolescent is the appearance of the breasts but above all, pubic hair and armpits. They go further telling that a man who find women hairs degusting has the trait of pedophiles. Women, just like men, naturally have hairs in certain parts of their bodies. Therefore why should hair, be assimilated to the manhood of man?
And why it is absolutely not disturbing to see a man with hair on his legs for example, or even under the armpits? They let us know that it is beacause hair, , is associated to the virility of man what they translate into "his domination" and the alienation of women.
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