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LastBlueDog's avatar

I have never noticed this but you're absolutely correct. I wonder if it has anything to do with the move away from fertility cults to more masculine dominated religion? Depicting a woman without sex organs is certainly one way to downplay the importance of childbirth.

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Erin M's avatar

I was on IG and came across a reel from a waxing clinic where the staff held a piece of cake covered in snipped off bits of hair. They asked the viewer “would you eat this? Then neither would your man! Come in now for discounted laser treatment” The angle then pans to another woman holding a terrrrrrrifying laser tool.

I legit had to put my phone down and go for a walk to clear my head. Women are taught from birth to hate the look of their genitals, the very mechanisms through which every single human life has been brought into the world. Whether it’s classical art or Instagram reels, there’s a real policing of skin and winkles and folds and hair and odour.

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