[lbo-talk] Re: "doing it"

[Jordan Hayes]

Jim writes:

> I'm no hippie, but this whole social eruption of young ladies
> all doing the porn star-style shaving thing, strikes me as a
> totally annoying contrivance manufactured of a sudden by a
> media that's getting more over-sexualized by the year ...

I think it's just the tail end of what started a while back when 
Victoria's Secret re-framed lingerie as both a "secret" (get it?) 
pleasure for the wearer (help me out ladies, especially you hippies: say 
what you will about VS, but they *have* advanced the state of the art in 
comfort at least, and don't forget that the majority of their bra 
revenue is from DD and above!) and a "secret exposed" the (presumably 
unsuspecting) recipient of the secret.  Like getting let "in" on a joke. 
Some tattoos are like that (the ones that only "some people get to 
see" -- again, the secret), and I think this trend is too.

It's different from the overt pressures from fashion, etc., because by 
the time you get to see the handiwork, all the judgement is long past. 
You're not going to let just anyone see that landing strip, so it's the 
reward not the bait.

So yeah, I think you're a hippy.  In the Cartman sense.

/jordan