Modern girls have hairy armpits

The topic of gals with hairy armpits has become newsworthy again. At least the wannabe wokelings at The Globe and Mail seem to think so. They give the matter three quarters of a page in what used to be the Arts and Culture section. I'm the first to admit I'm not up on every twist and turn in contemporary culture. According to Tayo Bero, top titles like Vogue and Glamour have been leading the way in destigmatizing women's armpit hair. Breanne Fahs has a book out hoping to capitalize on the trend; Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics. Everything old is new again. As time goes on and the general populace grows ever more stupid, thanks mainly to those devices most of us are addicted to, it becomes child's play to trot out yesterday's news as bold and fresh. I spent some time at a reputable university forty years ago, studying sociology. My old drinking buddy and classmate Karen McWilliam, like many forward looking women of the era, didn't bother shaving her pits. Karen used to joke about braiding her armpit hair if it grew long enough. Forty years later, Vogue and Glamour are fanning an imaginary revolution. Where did American women get the ridiculous idea that they needed to shave their pits in the first place? From America's cosmetics-advertising-industrial complex that finances Vogue and Glamour!