I definitely don’t get this.
2009 May 17
As a sort of follow-up to crabby’s post on how she just doesn’t get the level of obsession many women have with their physical appearance, I just saw an ad that pretty much sums up all my confusion with the lengths many women will go to in order to ‘be beautiful.’
W.T.F?
http://www.latisse.com/AboutSafety.aspx?state=20
and your eyes might turn brown, permanently, and your surrounding skin will get hyperpigmented, and your eyes will itch- but don’t worry! It doesn’t mean that your eyes are being harmed!
ew.
I know! Like short eyelashes are a medical condition and it’s totally reasonable to risk some side effects for a ‘cure.’
Isn’t it bizarre how people are all crazy about removing hair from some parts of their bodies, only be obsessed with having lots of hair on other areas?
Hahahaha. That’s so true. Volumizing shampoo, prescription for your lashes and some depillatory cream for the rest of your body.
Oh, god, I’ve seen those ads. That is some crazy sh*t, right there.
I once saw a play that did a spoof on this idea. A woman got up and started talking about her unattractive elbows, and this new cream that would solve those unattractive imperfections there. I don’t know how much is media driven, or how much is culture driven, or how much is the underlying fear that confident, intelligent women will suddenly look at their lazy couch-potato men and toss them out. Similar to the way that many are threatened by successful career women. But unlike Crabby, I’m not so sure it’s just a hetero thing. In this town, there are a lot of salons that specialize in waxing men’s backs and balls, styling/dying their hair, etc. Not being a gay man, I can’t know what it’s like, but it seems that some segments of that community have as much, if not more, pressure as hetero women to look a certain way, and be pretty and young and attractive.
Of course, this is a town known to be unfashionable (except for above mentioned gay men). I’ve actually heard hetero-men complain that they set the bar higher for them, too.