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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    IDK it says BBC America, so I guess the explanation is quite simple.
    It’s because Americans are crazy. An having perfectly natural hair under her armpits would be unacceptably disgusting for an American audience.
    While torture, killing and poor hygiene is not.

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      Or this actress didn’t want to grow out pit hair for a comedy show. Not everything is that deep

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        Make-up departments exist. It being a deliberate choice by the production makes much more sense.

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          It’s very possible it just never came up. Especially if it’s a male-run production. The male gaze just assumes a woman doesn’t have pit hair, and if she doesn’t think of it and bring it up, nobody does.

          She probably takes her hairless pits for granted through long habit as we ll.

          The rest of the job is basically rub “mud” product through her hair and all over her body. More attention paid to the face for closeups. (She’s got lipstick and contouring and probably mascara as well, a “no makeup” makeup.) Should some makeup artist have thought of it and glued some hair trimmings to her pits? Yes. But while it would be easy in this scene/pose, it would be uncomfortable and easily shed during scenes where she needs to use her arms, and then you run into continuity problems. (I don’t know the show but I assume she doesn’t spend the whole time crucified like that)

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        Which goes back to the above: “Americans are crazy. having perfectly natural hair under her armpits would be unacceptably disgusting for an American”

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          Wouldn’t want to accurately portray women’s natural bodies lest they think it might be acceptable to be unshaven.

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            Natural body is a polite way of framing ungroomed. Men nor women like seeing poor hygiene. Some types of poor hygiene are seen as worse than others. Dirty hair? Sorta gross. Body hair? Disgusting.

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              For real? Did i understand you correct that for you it’s worse having clean hair in armpits or on legs than unwashed hair on the head?

              Do you also remove ALL of your own body hair?

              It is possible to not ever cut any of your hair and still be hygienic and clean!

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                I wish I could permanently delete all my body hair. Laser doesn’t work for me unfortunately

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                Isn’t that for you to decide? I know gay men who think facial hair is disgusting. Some like it. Regardless, I don’t get to tell my audience what they like, which is what you’re trying to do.

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              Natural body is a polite way of framing ungroomed.

              Natural landscape is such a hippie way of framing unpaved!