The Avengers is the first thing I've seen Renner in. I'd heard of him, but I didn't get the appeal. He's great on screen...it never came through in pictures.

Who are the people that are still talking about this [link] to this day?

I didn't know about this controversy until this day. I don't judge her body hair choices, however.

I actually remember it--IIRC, her response when someone tried to shame her for it was that she actually had hair there because she'd had some minor procedure (draining a cyst, maybe?) and wasn't shaving or wearing sleeves so as not to irritate the site, and she thought the whole thing was ridiculous. Ridiculous that she'd either shave or not shave for a boyfriend instead of herself, and ridiculous that people apparently though she should have either stayed home or not waved at fans out of shame until she could denude her pits again. There was an undertone of "I am too polite and too much a lady to tell you all to GROW THE FUCK UP, PEOPLE, but, really, GROW THE FUCK UP, PEOPLE" to it that really made me like her quite a bit more.

Huh, JZ. All the news I read about the first time Julia was photographed with unshaved pits (google is telling me it happened again around Eat, Pray Love) her response was that it was about Bratt. Did she change her story? Or are we thinking about different occasions?

Amanda Palmer doesn't shave, but I guess that's okay because she's not mainstream? The double standard there, and with men and women, is pretty absurd.

I don't know how I ever noticed. People talk about bikin waxes and leg shaving, but I never heard talk about pits. And it never pinged me. I guess it is not news that sometimes I'm a bot clueless.

I fell down the rabbithole of trying to repair the database after yesterday's timewarp. It's quite complicated and there are at least 4 different scenarios I have to correct 4 different ways. And I just remembered another table that has to be fixed. That+ cramps made for a very surreal day.

More of it tomorrow. So I'm gonna cuddle the cats.

I made a zine in college called Your Furry Godmother about societal pressures to shave and wax. I should see if I can find any old copies of that. Good times with a copy machine.

The Avengers is the first thing I've seen Renner in. I'd heard of him, but I didn't get the appeal. He's great on screen...it never came through in pictures.

But he was Penn!

Though I actually haven't seen Hurt Locker. I should. But he was Penn.

In the random googling I just did to bolster my memory about the Julia Roberts scandal (OMIGOD), I was surprised by how vehement some of the women writing were about the wrongness of various bits of female body hair. Like, I dig that you don't dig it, on yourself or others, but to have such deeply seated feelings that it's wrong seems like too much feels for the appearance of other people.

It's amazing how bad Ion TV makes Leverage look. I'm watching numerous episodes of Flashpoint, and their Leverage promos are almost making me doubt what I know to be true about my past appreciation of and current anticipation for the show. They just make it look so low rent and awkward and uncharismatic. Uncharismatic!

Gnargh. There is a frustrating niche in web business that I wish I could work out how to boycott--it's a weird sort of link aggregator--they provide "maybe you'll like" clusters, but if you click on something they don't take you straight to what you thought you were going to, and in fact, your intended destination may be obscured with a list of other links they're presumably getting paid to stuff down your throat. The links in the first place were pretty much always shallow, so once I get distracted I end up closing the window, since it's not worth working at--it's like Cracked-level articles, but less substantial. Don't make me think about these choices, internet. I don't respect these urges. That's not the me I want to be.

Why is Russell Wong shilling for Ikea? Sadface. Vanishing Son, my brother. You deserve better.

I saw a (fairly) recent picture of Julia roberts at the beach in a bikini and she had underarm hair. I think the picture had a body shaming caption but the picture was linked from positive website.