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Author: objection215

Jun 5th 2014 at 11:48:52 AM

@Kerani

I know you said you're having trouble expressing what you dislike about the write-up, but your explanation didn't really help much unfortunately...

First off, I think you're reading too much into the phrase "body hair" since most people only associate it with armpits, legs, and pubic region, unless you happen to be a miraculously furry human being. Eyebrows and chin hairs are all facial hair, which don't fall under this trope. It's a common enough uncommon occurrence of females not shaving their legs and armpits, for people to recognize it as its own phenomenon.

Secondly, I think you're nitpicking about the feminine words I used. I wrote various terms, including women/girl/female throughout the course of the summary. I think I used the word "girl" maybe once the entire summary. Your suggestion to switch everything to the term "woman" is overly restrictive and unnecessary since the term girl is subjective. It can apply to a 1 year old, and it can apply to a 30 year old. It all depends on who's using the term. A writeup using the word "woman" over and over again will get repetitive fast.

On top of this, I don't really understand how citing examples that show men with leg/armpit/pubic hair fits into this concept, since the whole point of it is 'women generally shave their hair there, but sometimes they don't, and it's noticeable when they do not.' I already touched on the issue that in drawn examples, even male characters are rarely depicted with it due to the fact its difficult to draw. I don't think there's more of a need to go into it further than that.

I'm not really sure what you want me to do to with WartsAndAll or WickedWitch, or any of those other tropes. I went into detail some contrast and comparisons VS related ones.

What I can do is try to re-write and revamp chunks of it, and maybe you'll like it. I think it's frivolous to emphasize the negative connotations even more than I already did because the trope itself isn't "Sometimes a female character has hairy armpits and EWW GROSS THEY NASTY" it's simply "Sometimes this is a thing applied to female characters for various reasons"