In a world without water and food, she is a warrior, why bother to shave her armpits?
Fury Road is a great movie, but this keeps bothering me...
You pick some strange things to get bothered by.
sharei prefer my women to shave their pits
shareI never thought about that with this film until now...
It's actually pretty common in post-apocalyptic films, though, that grooming seems to have survived the end of civilization. Hair is often well-coifed and washed, teeth are straight and gleaming white, and body hair is kept to - at most - rugged stubble for the boys. Armpits and legs on the ladies are still pretty smooth...
So, is there a reason Furiosa does it? Maybe it's a requirement of Immortan Joe who wants even his warrior women to conform to certain standards.
The War Boys have armpit hair, but otherwise are pretty clean-shaven. Maybe they all shave or remove their body hair and Furiosa just decided to take care of her armpit hair while they were all shaving down. Her head is shaved, after all. Mad Max isn't so far removed from now that the characters would have forgotten present-day beauty norms. Look no further than the wives on the War Rig for proof.
Maybe they all shave or remove their body hair and Furiosa just decided to take care of her armpit hair while they were all shaving down. Her head is shaved, after all.
In fairness, the other members of Immortan Joe's forces don't have shaved armpits, so Furiosa is a bit unique. But men and women are different and have different ideas of how they'd like to look. Furiosa obviously thinks shaving her armpits is worthwhile.
It's not as much of a stretch as, say, pearly-white teeth in medieval stuff.
Some Star Wars fans are also bothered by the lack of armpit hair. /-/-/5df7b2f06a25e802e7f2c599
Well, if message boards and fan debate since the early 2000s has proven anything it's that Star Wars fans are nutters. I'm an OT guy myself, but I'll fully acknowledge that it's goofy of me to bother debating what "should" be "canon". Nerds are weird. We just...we're weird.
I find when people complain about armpit hair or something, though, they're usually trying to hit the gas on their Feminism and stay on-brand and up-to-date with all things PC. Not that they *never* have a good point about it. But Star Wars is such a fabricated universe, anyway, armpit hair (or lack thereof) is a very small thing and not important.
You would get nauseous
shareShe borrowed razors from Joe's breeder girls, who had no armpit hair or leg hair either!
Personally, I always thought a much bigger issue with the film was that those girls had a steady supply of makeup, hair dye, hair spray, and anti-perspirant.
How could you know if they had antiperspirant?
shareSo her enemies couldn't use it as a handhold.
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