What Grinds Your Gears? :)

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Originally Posted by Leo656

On body hair: Well,... I'm not gonna try and make anyone feel bad, but I don't agree. I totally empathize, since I'm naturally ape-chested myself, but have to shave everything for wrestling. Takes forever. Chest, arms, pits, back... I wear long tights, but I hate looking ridiculous the rest of the time walking around with a shorn upper body and hairy legs, so I usually just say "f*ck it" and take care of that while I'm down there. At first, I fought like hell on it, as I didn't think it made a difference, and it IS a huge pain in the ass. But every week, every show, I'd hear, "God, you look disgusting, you gotta get rid of that sh*t. You're supposed to look like an athlete. Plus, I don't want that sh*t scraping up and down my face when you put me in a headlock, and it smells awful, too." I kind of got their point, but still resisted, until some of the promoters - aka, "the guys who pay me" started saying it, in a little nicer way. "You'll look a lot more athletic, and your muscle tone shows more, without all that hair covering it up. Your character is kind of a pretty boy, so you should really think about it. It might improve your appeal with the females in the audience." And you know, sonofagun, they were right. I hate doing it, but I *did* look better immediately and people did respond better (and I stopped getting chopped for having armpit hair, that's a plus ). So, when I say I'm not a fan of body hair, I'm not being insensitive. If anything, I have a lot more work to do than any of you. But sometimes the wife goes a couple days between and I don't like how it feels, at all, and she's really dark-haired, so sometimes it looks like she's dirty. I'unno, I just don't like it. People gonna do what they do, obviously. Ain't trying to make anyone feel bad. Yeah, it's a looks-based society... but it does look better.

Feel free to call me a hypocrite, though, based on the fact that a razor hasn't hit this face in years and I only bother to buzz-trim it once every two weeks.

For my part, if someone's not attracted to body hair - that's fine; but i like them to at least think about the reasons why and the social conditioning that's gone into it. And anybody who acts like women are obligated to remove body hair or they're disgusting really puts my back up. It's fine for someone to not be into it personally, but it's a question of respecting a woman's bodily autonomy enough to realize that it's a personal choice, and not a femininity tax that female-bodied persons are obligated to pay. Beauty comes in many different forms.

I don't know about guys, but I myself never had a problem with any additional odors when I didn't shave - I'm a clean freak so I shower a minimum of twice a day as it is. Hell, I even conditioned my pit pets - I kept those babies soft and flurfy!

Actually, if my body hair were blonde instead of brunette, I'd probably keep my pit pets just so I could whack some Special Effects Atomic Pink into those babies... then I'd have pretty pink punk pits! Underarm candyfloss! I'd shake those babies all over town like Barbie's latest dreamhouse accessory.

Originally Posted by arkangel

What grinds my gears recently? When I'm web surfing for table top rpg material, reviews, whatever, and it keeps bringing up video game stuff. Even this forum has a section for video games, books, literature, favorite hallmark cards, etc. but there's nowhere to post about the pen and paper games that video games owe their whole existence too. Is it really that much of a dying medium? Maybe so, if I have to post about it on the subforum filled with posts about which celebrity person just died.
rant over...

omg.omg. I'm a Hench Mutant now with a cool new title! Please disregard my above b*+ch. Missed my happy pill today and don't deserve any acknowlegement for being a whiny face. Hench Mutant. nice!!

Hey, congrats on making Hench Mutant! You mean tabletop like Vampire the Masquerade and Werewolf: Apocalypse? I own the books because I love the art, but don't play - I'd imagine there'd have to be some tabletop gamers in here though! We have a forum full of nerds here - I refuse to believe that nobody here plays D&D!