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Mary's shaved armpits


Theres a scene with Mary (Ashley Bell) where her arm is raised exposing her shaved armpit, for some reason it bugged me as since it's a post apocalyptic world surely women would not bother shaving their armpits or elsewhere!? Wouldn't they just go with being all natural and hairy?

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There is no excuse for women with hairy armpits - end of the world scenario or not.

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Ha ha ha yeah i understand that it's not nice to see a woman with hairy pits but it really annoyed me.

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If there's an excuse not to shave then it's got to be the apocalypse.
Risk of being beaten up, butchered and eaten, and we've still got to shave?
They can do that before they throw me in the pot - ridiculous!

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Clearly the guys didn't shave every day, but neither did any of them look like Walt Whitman. So that kind of grooming still has a place. Surprised there aren't more complaints re Mary wearing a dress, going all Xena-like when trousers are the preferred costume for male & female characters in the end of the world situations.

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"There is no excuse for women with hairy armpits -"


Yes sure, it's not as if that would grow naturally on them.

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Shaving her armpits with a blade is possible - but where did she buy her cigarettes 10 years after the apocalypse?

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It looked like it had been rolled. So it could have been plucked from wild tobacco.

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Maintaining creature comforts as well as you can is key to keeping your sanity in a scenario like that I'd wager.

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Maybe whatever caused the apocalypse made body hair fall out with some people? ;-)

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What if it's a post apocalyptic movie set in Germany?

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Then let zee Germans enjoy some woman who looks like she has Buckwheat in a headlock. I will stick with the type I'm more accustomed to, and far more attracted to.

"Ah home-sweet-hell."
Al Bundy

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I mean, are you really going to ask Hollywood actresses to not shave their armpit?

Well... hmm. they do ask them to gain weight for roles.

[i]"Kindness is Timeless." - Sergio Mendes ft. India.Arie

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And if she had hair under her armpit, there would be a thread about why did they show the hair.

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Honestly....after the world crumbles...I'll still find time to shave. I can't even imagine how with less bathing, how much worse a pit smell would be with hair. Forget that...I'd let my legs go before pits.

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