Gardeners Question Time (or the Burning Bush)

[ladycat]

The TV was on mute. I thought I was watching an advert for a gardening product, bushes which spontaneously pruned themselves into perfect topiary. But there was a suspicious feel to it - the white trousered, 'we're so active' look you only get when you bleed blue water (how many girls are terrified when their period turns out to be red)? Then a

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[valkyriekaren]

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Not real women, anyway.

(The song's kinda catchy, but yeah, some very nasty gender stereotyping going on there. Women! Take control of your life by depillating your pubic mound! Erm... maybe not, eh?)

[ladycat]

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Arse (well, the other side of)! All fixed now.

The stereotyping didn't really register, I was too busy boggling at the comparison with vegetation!

[valkyriekaren]

The girly pink gardening tools, the coy giggling at every little innuendo... ugh.

[ladycat]

The girly pink gardening tools

Hee hee hee hee :D

Does a guffaw count as coy giggling at every little innuendo? :-)

[misthawk]

*horror*

I had to show it to Guy, it's so bad. It doesn't help that the really shocking advert is obviously American. *grovels*

At least the English one is more subtle. The "catchy tune" just makes it more cartoony for me. Ugh.

(Side note: Guy confirmed to me that the product is actually a pastel version of his beard trimmer that he uses for traveling. So they're basically trying to rebrand a product designed for men. Make of that what you will.)

[foxy76]

That video is so hideous I'm dumbstruck!

[wimsey70]

The American attitude towards body hair on women is horrifyingly nasty. Somehow, you don't have "good hygiene" if you're not smooth as a baby's butt all over or something.

I'm too lazy for that crap! :) (I'm just lucky I'm blonde and nearly hairless.)

[djpsyche]

Ahem!

All I can say is, I am NOT blonde. Nor am I hairless. Well, I am now. Only takes a couple of minutes...

[foxy76]

'The American attitude towards body hair on women is horrifyingly nasty.'

I have encountered this! An American man actually told me I was a barbarian for not shaving my leg or underarm hair!

[moral_vacuum]

This is the country that gave the world nostril waxing and anal bleaching, fer chrissakes.