The Definitive Timeline Of How Armpit Hair Became This Summer’s Hottest Trend
Will you be rocking natural pits this summer?
1. So last year, Madonna Instagrammed her armpit hair.
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2. A few months after that, women started sharing photos of their dyed armpit hair.
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5. In comes Miley Cyrus last month with her own armpit hair.
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6. Bruce Willis’ daughter posted her own armpit hair to Twitter around the same time.
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7. Then, three weeks ago, Lena Dunham posted this note that including “grow armpit hair” as a goal for the summer.
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8. This month, Dunham’s Girls co-star Jemima Kirke showed up on a red carpet with some very elegant tufts of armpit hair.
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9. Kirke also tweeted some important retro pit-spiration.
It's just my own personal preference. That being said please can we stop talking about pits? #bored #sophialoren
— Jemima Kirke (@jemimakirke)
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11. Xiao Meili, a women’s rights activist, pictured below, organized the “Women’s Armpit Hair Competition” on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
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12. Armpit hair has been so stigmatized for Chinese women that they “would rather fall down on buses than to hold something and expose their armpit hair,” Xiao said.
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13. The women who joined the competition seriously got into it though.
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14. The winners of Xiao’s contest will be those who get the most reposts, likes, and comments on Weibo.
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- Hell yeah, smash the patriarchy.
- It’s not for me, sorry.
- I am a man and thanks to the privilege given to me by the patriarchal society I was born into I have never thought about whether or not I would feel pressured to shave or not shave my armpit hair.
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