This is worse than navel-gazing. Is va-jay-jay-gazing a word?

And yet there are women in Korea getting pubic hair implants. What does that mean for the Asian feminist narrative?

I wax everything, legs, arms, mustache, do the Brazilian thing. I've only found gay guys into doing the same as me, does that mean I'm conforming to the gay male ideal?

I really really like doing it. I don't shave, it hurts my skin.

By the way my hair doesn't grow back anymore except for my ......mustache.

I have been doing it since I was 12 and that fucker will not go away.

I find it difficult to believe Salon would print a similar article written by a heterosexual man.

. . . Her ass?

I am mentally trying to work out how a triangle would do that. The anatomy is wrong. I hope.

Or maybe she's just way hairy -- yeah, stopping right there.

It's my routine with my self, my vulva, and my body. It is a sacred time during which I inspect hair growth, blah, blah, blah

Is there a word for people who assume that since she thinks it's a "sacred time," then everybody else should, too?

Old RPM Daddy, I'm thinking "narcissist" might cover it.

As for the article, does this mean I need to start shaving my legs since I don't want to be a feminist?

Let's think about this now. I have never had an iota of interest in makeup/fashion/shoes/women's magazines/hair. I am NOT a feminist - at least not in the modern sense of the word. However, the implication of this woman's extended brain fart is that I am the ultimate feminist. Basically, since I eschew all that girly stuff, to her this implies "I am woman, hear me roar?"

So what, now all the straight, beer-guzzling, football-watching, biker dudes with big beards are the ultimate feminists because they don't wax or shave - or do other similar girly things? Unless you've seen one drooling over a pair of shoes, in which case, I want a photo.

Navel-gazing to narcissist; yep, as expected commenters here have spoken the truth.

Unless I'm there to see her have it done, I don't really care. But I admit I prefer no jungle in the way to her paradise.

Good God, that article is soooo long and boring. Just endless self-contemplation of something so trivial.

Must everything have a political connotation. Wax or don't wax. who cares? Do what you like. Don't drag all of male-female relations since the beginning of time into it.

Shannon, that's hilarious.

I thought long ago, that the writers at Salon and Slate had run out of stuff to write about.

This article just confirms that suspicision.

If I ever meet a man who is as agonized about what it means for him to shave his face, I promise, I will unzip my skin and run away screaming.

I dont agonize over what it "means". I do find it annoying as fuck and wish there was a way to simply kill hair entirely.

For all the billions being spent to PREVENT hair loss, surely some of that research could be used to FACILITATE hair loss.

Glad you enjoyed it. I find the idea that "feminism" means not being feminine sort of comic.

Picking at my pubes
Watching the hair grow back in
Can't wait 'til next week

Thank you, Caroline
For inspiring these "hi-cooze"
Narcissistic much?

For inspiring these "hi-cooze" -- Pricklypear at February 19, 2014 8:30 AM

:::groan:::

I dunno, why don't you ask the members of pussy riot what they think about your feminism.

5 minutes of translation.

1 slap across the chops.

There, fixed.

Or not. There is the entire possibility that there is no cure for her lack of perception about anything... even if she was sent to live in a place where there are real problems, she would think it's all about her.

Good God, that article is soooo long and boring. Just endless self-contemplation of something so trivial.

Just the excerpt was cringe-inducing. I have a yoga CD that I like to do on occasion. It's a really good routine for mindfulness and relaxation but I do have to tune out all the talk about my female moon-driven power and deep connection with the cycles of the tides and whatnot.

I didn't find Charlotte Allen's joke funny, though. I've seen similar ones too many times on the internet, as though I'm supposed to be tarred with the froo-froo sacred power talk of every member of my gender. (Or maybe I'm just enough of a feminist to lack a sense of humor, even if I do shave my legs.)

":::groan:::"

Yeah, Jim...I should have used a comma, not a dash. More of a friendly greeting, sort of thing. That's not one of my favorite words, but having made one bad haiku the plural was just waiting there, begging to be yoozed.

Wow, this was really disturbing and I can't wipe the image of her PICKING at herself out of my mind. If I knew her personally, I don't think I could look her in the face ever again. This was way creepy and gross. Some thoughts should just never be expressed and this one tops the list. Blech!

BTW, loved your haiku Pricklypear!

So, does feminism cause mental illness, or are the mentally ill attracted to feminism?

The answer: Both, of course!

I feel like I could have lived my entire life without knowing about this woman's personal relationship with her vulva, and died perfectly content. This is over thinking at its absolute worst.

I used to laugh at how Victorians didn't use words such as "legs," "underwear" and "bull" in polite conversation. Now I think they were on to something.

"Was it really a good idea to allow women to vote?"

Women? Yes. Overwrought, neurotic, trivial little perpetual teenagers like Rothstein? No. Never.

Bush Derangement Syndrome.

-I feel like I could have lived my entire life without knowing about this woman's personal relationship with her vulva, and died perfectly content.-

So I guess you're saying you don't want to read my husband's ode to his left testicle.

So I guess you're saying you don't want to read my husband's ode to his left testicle. -- Pricklypear at February 19, 2014 3:33 PM

Only if it as a thousand times less venal than this woman's commentary.

About the only way I wanted to hear any of this is if she had a burning bush. And I mean literal flames.

>Only if it as a thousand times less venal than this woman's commentary.

Ahhh, nuts.

Ahhh, nuts. -- Pricklypear at February 19, 2014 4:15 PM

No nuts, pubic hair, testicles, vaginas, bikini waxing, shaving, or any of the rest of it.

I just simply don't need to know, along with the rest of us. It might be worth hearing about a testicular cancer case or similar, but I still don't need to know whether it was left or tight nut bolt or lock washer.

This is still more interesting and valuable than anything about Hillary Clinton.

Glad to hear you testify, Jim. My husband was really worried that he might be expected to actually write an ode.

What's your take on the Booty Bra?

What's your take on the Booty Bra? -- Pricklypear at February 20, 2014 10:58 AM

What's that do -- lift and separate a woman's fat ass?

Don't really need to know that either. :-p

Too late--you asked. And that's apparently just what they do. I read about them yesterday, and the resultant eye-roll dislodged my contact lenses.

Not just fat asses. They're also for women who feel the need to emphasize what little they have, like a push-up bra.

My rear-end was flat
Til I bought a booty bra
Now I strut my stuff

I read about them yesterday, and the resultant eye-roll dislodged my contact lenses. -- Pricklypear at February 20, 2014 3:17 PM

So you can't see what you are commenting on?

Isn't that the blind leading the visually impaired?

We used to figuratively call this "navel-gazing," but now it's literal rather than figurative.
And it's no longer the navel.