On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:07:43 -0800 Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The answer: the barber shaves herself! > > Michael Smith: > > Naughty, naughty. Shaving is gendered. > > not when shaving legs or armpits, though I doubt that anyone goes to a > barber for that. Back in the glory days, shaving legs and armpits amounted to inscribing male privilege on the female body, if I'm remembering the technical terms correctly. A good many of my female schoolfellows were positively hobbitlike. (Of course I've always liked hobbits and I rather liked this look, too, for all kinds of complicated reasons. Does the rather widespread kink for 'furries' date back to this period, I wonder? Or is it perennial?) The teaching does seem to have changed on this point of doctrine; I'm not sure just how the reasoning runs, though. -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://www.cars-suck.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com Any proposition that seems self-evident is almost certainly false. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
