wft the barbie labiaplasty gone mad

[scrummummy]

this article in jezabel

jezebel.com/5977025/unhappy-with-your-gross-vagina-why-not-try-the-barbie

who in their right mind

[digerd]

The hairy female bush hid the labia, so nobody bothered, or noticed any difference. Bring it back, I say.

My 71 year-old SIL told me her vulva is still a neat slit just as it was as a child and after 2 x10 lb babies. She had to get a mirror and heave up her big belly though to be able to see it, she said.
< mind boggling face>

[Loquace]

The hairy female bush hid the labia, so nobody bothered, or noticed any difference. Bring it back, I say

I suppose the lack of hair puts everything on clear display, so that differences that wouldn't have be so obvious in my younger days, are now.

My fanny may not be pretty, but she is very good at what I want her do (bar shoving out children, but it's not her fault DS had Big Fat Head) and what she lacks in beauty pagent looks, she more than makes up for in character.

[ICBINEG]

hmm can we add other endangered hairs to the placard? Like female leg hair? An armpit hair?

These are probably even more at risk of extinction than vag hair....

[Loquace]

hmm can we add other endangered hairs to the placard? Like female leg hair? An armpit hair?





I live in Italy, while lots of women do shave under their arms it is so nice not to have people reacting at all if you are in short sleeves and some fuzz makes a break for it.

The downside is that due to lack of regular pit defoliation, when you do eventually shave for a special occasion, the skin gets massively whingy.

[ICBINEG]

oh yes...I had been leaving well alone for about a year and then folded over wearing a strappy dress at xmas (am in UK and could not quite do the right thing )...I am still reaping the stinky uncomfortableness of having shaved. Hopefully it will be back to normal soon...

[determinedma]

Sad thread. Proudly hairy here. Must say though, as someone whom has never really looked at own bits, hadn't realised how weird all vags look. Shouldn't have clicked on the link.
As I have got older, the labia certainly feel more stretched and droopy which I don't like.

[Darkesteyes]

Loquace my mum is Italian and for years as a teen she wouldnt let me shave legs or armpits at all. I have thick dark hair and i got badly bullied at school for it .....really badly. I tried to tell my mum this and she didnt care and didnt even attempt to sort it out by contacting the school.
There are many more things i could list here about the way ive been made to feel as a woman by their culture coupled with Catholicism but i dont want to derail the thread.
Sounds like things in Italy may have changed a lot.

[McNewPants2013]

A designer vagina no thank you.

I do shave legs and armpit hair and sometimes pubic hair. DH doesn't mind either way.

[Loquace]

Sounds like things in Italy may have changed a lot

Oooooh! your mum and mine are tiwns. I am VERY fair skined, (think corpse) with mouse coloured hair on my head. But eyebrows, lashes and all other body hair....jet black.

Would my mum let me shave ? Would she hell as like.

I rebelled at 14 cos I couldn't bear another year of having the piss taken, and teens are really good at the sort of piss take that hurts a damn sight more than a wax strip being yanked off.

What I like about here is that while the pits/legs/b.line tidy up is the norm in the summer, it isn't regulation. Less pressure.

I think the younger generation are whipping most of it off though. Probably have to seen as their jeans reveal quite a lot of front bottom

Culture/catholosism/women....can we have a thread for that? Would love tomcome and have a natter and pick your brains ? Trying to sort out the culture from the religon is like trying to untangle a plate of spagetti for me.

[Darkesteyes]

I think thats a fabulous idea Loquace.

[Loquace]

I will have a look at which board is most suitable and send you a link in the morning.

By the end of the thread we will have untangled the bowl of spagetti

[Darkesteyes]

Great

[Itchywoolyjumper]

I'm a sexual health nurse so I look at labia all day, every day and I've never seen even one set that I though looked as though they needed a trim (wince). Its all a big conspiracy to make us think we're weird so we'll buy things to make us normal. Viva the beaver, I say, in all its glorious variance

[SPBInDisguise]

Itchy are younger people getting more hairless or not?

[Itchywoolyjumper]

I think its getting to be more the norm than it ever was before, quite a lot of girls apologise for not having trimmed their pubes before they come in, its quite sad. I always tell them not to worry as I'm sporting the full Grizzy Adams myself

[ObscuredByClouds]

jamesandthegiantbanana, spot on!

"Dear God, just five minutes ago we were burning our bras and now we are frying our anuses, chopping off our butterflies and blowing our boobies up to massive proportions."

Hear, hear!

[TheFallenNinja]

Back in the day it could have looked like Ed Miliband and I would have still chased after it

[Loquace]

Viva the beaver

[JusticeCrab]

I'm a man, and if my views on this mattered (which they don't) I'd be standing outside these clinics with a 9-metre-long placard with 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!' written on it.

[Loquace]

[PacificDogwood]

VivaLaBeaver is just the BEST EVER Mumsnet nickname
Literally just made me LOL - I had to explain to DH in the presence 3DCs.
Made my morning, thank you!

[Molehillmountain]

I don't know where to begin with this. Just to say I thought doctors were meant to "first do no harm". How does making women feel that some labia are nasty enough to need cutting off do no harm to the mental health of his patients and the wider audience who read this stuff?

[puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE]

The vagina is not a kitchen

[Loquace]

Dark! It's on the Living Overseas board cos chat is time limted and AIBU is too bun fighty, so I compromised and that one seemed like it would not box the conversation in too much

[giraffesCantGoFirstFooting]

Just read the very despressing comments at the bottom of the page, such as the woman who is worried a new man would say "ew" when looking at her normal bits :(

Some very sensible comments thankfully such as - well then you would throw him out!