Today in “stories I'm writing in 2024 that could also have been major celebrity gossip in 1973” news, actor has for posing on the cover of with their armpit hair visible. Granted, I might feel a little bit personally attached given that a) one of the first places Corrin displayed their body hair was that I did the interview for, and b) I haven't shaved my legs or armpits in about two years (yes, really), but..
.is the concept of a human mammal wearing their hair as it grows from their body still controversial? (Apparently so, if you're willing to take a tour through the comment section on the Corrin post, but I highly recommend avoiding it if you're not a big fan of misogyny or transphobia.) We've been relitigating the finer points of the body hair debate for decades, ever since the nascent feminist movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was broadly dismissed as a bunch of “shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no sense of humor who see sexism at every turn”, as Susan K.
Douglas put it in her 1994 book . Emphasis on “hairy”; despite the fact that the in the U.S.
do shave their legs and armpits, feminists (including those who, like Corrin, are nonbinary or gender-nonconforming) are still treated like we’re personally going to drive the Venus razor empire out of business. As a two-year veteran of the I Don't Shave Club, I've grown somewhat used to fielding backhanded “compliments�.
