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sarahmichigan ([personal profile] sarahmichigan) wrote2009-12-05 09:25 am

and the answer is...

#3 is the lie.

1: I haven't used my cable at all this year. We watch TV shows on DVD, and I've watched TV over at friends' homes, but haven't used our TV to actually watch TV at all this year. I'm thinking of dropping the cable package and just getting the internet package, because it seems kind of pointless, doesn't it?

2: I have, indeed, not shaved my legs since I was 20, and I'm now 37. I also went through a 2.5 year period where I didn't shave my pits, but I just never felt comfortable about it. The leg hair thing is such old hat now, though, I rarely think about it anymore.

3: I have actually been outside the U.S. and Canada. I also spent a few hours in Tijuana, Mexico during a trip to Texas as a youngster, and I spent about 10 days in St. Vincent (Grenadine Islands). Technically speaking, I've also "been" to the Bahamas, in the form of a stopover at the airport there on my way to St. Vincent.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2009-12-05 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
No cable?

But...
But...

Jon Stewart!

Also, I stopped doing the shaving thing entirely. It was actually my husband who convinced me as he thinks all that girly crap is "vain and high maintenance." Considering that US women actually began shaving their underarms because of a 1930's Macy's catalog (they were selling sundresses, and declared underarm hair "unsightly"), I don't really see the point.

[identity profile] pstscrpt.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Underarm hair is unsightly. I just don't get why men aren't expected to shave it.

Besides, it's less work for us. If you're shaving your face in the shower, your armpits are right there and you already have shaving cream handy.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely "unsightly" is a matter of opinion. Not everyone believes that the human body needs to be altered to prevent it from being ugly.

[identity profile] popfiend.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
#1 - How do you live?!?!?!

:D

[identity profile] pstscrpt.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, it's a matter of opinion, but the double-standard is a bigger deal to me. I do think armpit hair is gross, and if anything, it's worse on men.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2009-12-07 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, but Macy's isn't trying to sell sundresses to men! ;-] Perhaps they should be. I went to hash bash one year and the majority of hippie dudes were wearing value village skirts. It was pretty swell.