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Christ on a stick Madonna - get thee to MN for ladygarden trimming tips...

384 replies

bringmeashrubbery · 18/01/2009 20:40

Blimey, fetch the hedgetrimmers someone (do not click if squeamish)

ps - my nickname is an old one which I have dusted off for this occasion, rather suitable, non ?

OP posts:
petrovia · 20/01/2009 10:15

B'brain, I think NP has a right to be upset. She's a nurse too you know, what you said casts doubt into the minds of many women who are already embarrassed about being examined.

I can't see any other reason for you to have said it than to show off, really. It is what I'd call stirring.

It wrongfully gives nurses a bad name and Nailpolish is allowed to be angry about that imo.

ipanemagirl · 20/01/2009 10:29

It's a bit of a shocker but WHY do we have to be so anti hair on women? I mean I'm not a grow your arm pit hair til you can plait it lass myself but I sort of admire her chutzpah for doing it without being Brazilianed to a pre-pubescent mons like an ickle girl.
Why are we so repulsed by body hair?

I blame porn!

izyboy · 20/01/2009 10:33

Actually in this day and age when we are used to the clinical 'bald' look, I think this picture is more erotic because she is untrimmed. I think that is because she appears more 'sexual' in a free and earthy way. I like thae fact that she is completely naked and yet the hair covers he most intimate bits in the way nature intended.

If she had a brazilian this pose would be much more pornographic and less artistic as a result.

ipanemagirl · 20/01/2009 10:34

Hear Hear izyboy down with covert misogyny!

TheCrackFox · 20/01/2009 10:56

Bring back the 1970s!!

Seems strange to me that women have to be hairless. I am not 7 years old.

midnightexpress · 20/01/2009 10:57

Heavens to Betsy - 300+ posts on Madge's minge.

midnightexpress · 20/01/2009 10:57

about Madge's minge, to be clear.

candyfluff · 20/01/2009 11:20

oh my god im speechless

nailpolish · 20/01/2009 12:00

ha! i am far from perfect

"get real"
i am real. thats why i dont laugh at other peoples pubes...

BabyBaby123 · 20/01/2009 12:04

havent read whole thread but just come back to this and had another look at pic. Its awful! Fair enough she didn't want a brazilian but it doesn't take much to tidy it up a bit fgs, you'd need a map and compass to get through there - it is gross.

Threadworm · 20/01/2009 12:06

Nobody tidied up in the 1970s. It is a fashion -- do doubt pressed on us by Immac, Nair, and their deadly allies, to sell more stinky slurry, wax, and razor blades.

Molesworth · 20/01/2009 12:14

Spot on threaders. It's capitalism gone mad

ipanemagirl · 20/01/2009 12:43

BabyBaby123 no one needs a map unless they are looking at a woman's genitals as an object!
We don't sit around socially with our legs splayed like hers are here, I'm sure you would have as much variety in hairyness and not as you would have in facial appearance if you sat a cross section of women down with their legs spread!

And this hostility to what I think is fairly normal appearing naked woman seems to me to be the beginning of the attitude that is leading women into almost the grossest misapprehension of our society which is the desire for genital surgery to make their genitals look like those hairless little porn chicks! I really thiink porn as brainwashed a few generations of men and women and made millionaires of plastic surgeons who morally shouldn't even be allowed to practice medicine in my book!

I'm no Madonna fan but I defend her right to present herself undepilated!

ipanemagirl · 20/01/2009 12:44

Also

hello TheCrackFox lovely to see you! Happy New Year from me and Mr Susan!

elsiepiddock · 20/01/2009 13:16

This thread is bonkers!

We wax and shave our legs and armpits. Women have done this now for decades because it became the fashion, and now most women can't imagine having our legs as nature intended.

Having little or no pubic hair has also become the fashion. I go to the gym most mornings and believe me, women sporting a full bush are in the tiny minority. And it's not because the rest of us are emulating porn stars/have perverted partners or have been brain washed. It's the fashion and like it or not, it's increasingly the norm.

Am still chuckiling over Rolf Harris tho'

TheCrackFox · 20/01/2009 13:30

Hello Ipanegirl, had a lovely new year, hope yours was good too.

Find it slightly bizarre that a trimmed muff is a fashion accessory. Guess with the credit crunch we can all give up on the "dream" of owning an It bag. We, however, can all afford to look like a 7 year old girl. Well there is progress for you.

Feel sorry for Madonna on this one (first for everything) 300+ posts laughing at her fanjo. I would be very upset if it was me.

Habbibu · 20/01/2009 13:32

Well, you could say that feeling the need to follow fashion is a form of brainwashing. It might be harmless, but it's not exactly making independent decisions, is it?

ipanemagirl · 20/01/2009 13:51

elsiepiddock so what's your position on genital surgery? That's becoming fashionable among a certain group of, increasingly, young and totally misguided (brainwashed imo) women who think pleasing a male expectation for a pre-pubescent fanjo is ideal.

Say that became even more prevalent, would that be ok in your opinion? Fashion being a massive priority and all?

I don't think shaving legs or armpits is hugely important and can be attributed to fashion. Trimming your bush is also fairly inoccuous imo. But, feeling as if you have to have a bald mons pubis to please a man or fellow gym goers is actually pretty aberrant behaviour imo! It's fascism in the form of changing room etiquette!

Hairlessness is a gender-political issue!

rant rant rant! bring back feminism!!

Monkeytrousers · 20/01/2009 14:18

We really have no idea if this was a fashion at some time in the past - but fads do come and go - so why wouldn;t it have been?

Especially among sex workers.

midnightexpress · 20/01/2009 14:18

ipanemagirl (I agree with you 100% btw) I am roffling at the irony of your name in relation to this subject.

RiaParkinson · 20/01/2009 14:21

ipanemagirl LONG LIVE FEMINISM

Monkeytrousers · 20/01/2009 14:21

But ipanemagirl, how do you know if these women are doing it to please men. They might also be doing it to please themselves. Would that make it more acceptable?

We are talking western women who are just doing it for aesthetioc reasons? Not muslim women who have to have themselves re-sewn up after GM - who are basically forced to do it by religious/cultural mores?

ipanemagirl · 20/01/2009 14:21

midnightexpress
My namesake would totally be bald of the mons!!! Well noticed!
I picked that name for my own private sense of her not being anything like me!

Monkeytrousers · 20/01/2009 14:22

I'd rather feminism addressed the rape issue before the hair issue, tbh.

ipanemagirl · 20/01/2009 14:23

Monkeytrousers of course! I'm only talking about aesthetic genital cosmetic surgery.
I presume it goes without saying we'd all object to genital mutilation.
It's just some of us consider both to be basically the same thing.
Just one tends to use anaesthetic.