Dee Salmon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Like it's something that I, you know, like that we, we've probably all experienced in school.
Like I remember all the girls waxing and all the girls shaving.
And I remember my mom saying that I wasn't allowed to at like 12, 13 because she was just like, no, like you, you don't want to do that too early.
Like it'll grow back black, like blah, blah, blah.
And, like, I had, like, white, white hair.
Like, I had, like, you could barely see.
But I just felt this pressure because all the other girls were doing it.
And so, like, to hear someone who has dark hair, I'm like, obviously, of course.
How can we make them feel worse about themselves?
Yeah, it's a journey that you go through.
I think in high school in particular, if you go through beauty in high school...
is one of those experiences where you just care so much about fitting in and that's what how I felt I felt so like I was so ashamed I just wanted to fit in and then like coming out of it then I did a lot of like unlearning and questioning and like hang on a minute like why are pink razors more expensive than men's and they're exactly the same like why are we getting laser and blah blah blah and so yeah it's definitely a journey but I do think as well like going back to the sexualization pit isn't it kind of
we don't even have time to really get into this because it's yeah but like the sexualization that happens to young girls when they develop their body develops into like a considered like a an adult body but then at the same time the shaving and the removing of hair is like making you go back to a prepubescent body oh it's a huge head fuck like the way that infantilization and the sexualization at the same time exactly
Cause I even going into this episode was a bit like, I like, I think we're going to get into the menopause of it all, but I'm like, I don't know if I, I think I did, but I think it was forced, but I don't know.