You are the very definition of a pretentious idiot. You go to NSCAD; you refuse to shave your armpits; you throw ‘isms around like they’re going extinct. The worst part is how “unique” and “anti-conformist” you think you are being. It’s been done a million times before you. There is nothing particularly special about your “rebellion.” Not only that, it’s been done better. You are free to reject society all you want. You are free to think of yourself as a morally superior free spirit. You are even free to think that looking like you crawled out of a sewer-rat’s ass somehow makes you a warrior for social justice. But the rest of us are just as free to roll our eyes, yawn and wait patiently for you to shut up so we can induce vomit and eject the bullshit you are cramming down our throats. You are the worst type of person. —It’s not us. It’s you
This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2014.
Foxtrot Tango Whiskey. >: )
I love conforming non-conformists! So confused they are…!
Gross!!!! Who wants to snuggle up to a chick with hairy old armpits? Imagine what that bush looks like!!! Why is it that poor personal hygiene is seen as some sort of “protest” against “the man”, which in reality, couldn’t give one single fuck whether you look like a pig or not.
You just described a relative of mine. Fast forward ten years – said Fine Arts non-conformist grad relative is now working as a lowly receptionist in another province, can’t pay her student loans and finally had to succumb to mediocrity – quelle horror!
To be fair, such people do have their uses. Were it not for them, The Scroat would have to crib it’s “V@ice of the Shitty” columns from the letters section of mother jones and adbusters.
Shittyd, it’s fine if you’re not attracted to women with hairy arm pits, but why are hairy arm pits a matter of personal hygiene for women and not for men? Do you also shave your arm pits?
Here’s an image that will make many women heave – any male with a furry hair crack.
http://www.writtalin.com/wp-content/upload…
When did I say that shaving pits was a hygiene matter?
I love people like the girl you are describing, and think they are sweet. I think you might be mistaking an earnest desire to try to figure out complicated stuff (about what you call “isms”) for pretentiousness. Is it threatening to you in some way when people are like this character?
This lady may not shave her armpits, but what’s even more disgusting is that you spent approximately 30 minutes of your time trashing another human. Poor you, anonymous internet troll. Insecurity so deep that you hid behind your computer screen, like a coward and prayed for a reaction.
Hmmm, how sad.
“Who wants to snuggle up to a chick with hairy old armpits? Imagine what that bush looks like!!! Why is it that poor personal hygiene…” yadayadayada
“Gross!” to “Hairy old arm pits” to rhetorical question about the subject’s vagina to final rhetorical question regarding (lack of) personal hygiene as a form of rebellion. The only reasonable conclusion that one might infer from this bantering of yours is that you think hairy arm pits are gross and unhygienic. So, naturally, I’m left to conclude that you don’t shave your pits lest you would be deemed by yourself to be gross and unhygienic (such a self-realization would make masturbation rather unpleasant). I just wanted confirmation so as to make it easier to identify you among the other male pit bull owners who frequent Africville Park. This should make things easier as I’m sure that most of them do not shave their arm pits. Or maybe arm pit shaving is a “thing” among pit bull owners.
I honestly can’t believe that The Coast even published this sexist bullshit. The fact that you are even critiquing this persons unshaven arm pits or use of isms shows that you still have a loooooong way to go yourself. How about letting go of your fear and anger and scratching what actually exists under the surface. This bullshit message goes to show that whatever work this NSCAD free spirit has been up to needs to be continued. The reason why we still need to have these convos again and again-even though it’s been done a millions times before-is because of this message and the thread that has grown beneath it. We all have to work on our shit everyday. Take a second and try to consider why you had a negative interaction with this person. What was your contribution? Where you really an innocent bystander?
I CAN’T BELIEVE THE COAST PUBLISHED THIS. TRULY DISAPPOINTING. I know the person being described and they are a treasure in this community.
Thanks for supporting the bigotry, The Coast. It’s amazing that such acts of anti-conformity aren’t rebellious, but still need to discussed by entitled men who believe that body hair is disgusting on women. A perfect example of oppression, and even more proof in the comments. Progressive, hairy, art-school girls aren’t pretending to be anything and aren’t idiots. But thanks for the sexISM and ablISM.
So happy that some male privileged pieces of shit are so unsettled by young women that don’t tolerate fascism that they bother to write a note about it. I hope this woman isn’t hurt or discouraged from doing what they’re doing. You’re the reason feminism exists.
fuck this bitch. we need more people in the world that aren’t afraid to have body hair and speak their mind. this world needs more revolutions, large and small. and we need people who are doing shit cause they want to and not because they’ve been told to or are looking to make profit off of it.
I am the OP of this Bitch. The last few commentors are bang on…I am an asshole. I forgot all about this person and the Bitch that I wrote until I saw it in print today. I am ashamed that I was so mean to this person that I’ve never met. I don’t know why I wrote the things that I did but it was neither fair nor right of me and I am sorry. If one of you know this individual please pass along my sincere apologies to them. My e-mail is samjacobs1987@yahoo.ca in case she has anything she would like to say to me in return. I know that I likely have a flood of hate mail coming my way so don’t hold back. I deserve it.
Sorry again HitMeWithAFlower
Jesus H Christ. Fucking SJW’s coming out of the woodwork here. Seriously, fuck off. This is one part of the web where we are equal opportunity bitchers. There is nothing sexist about this bitch. There is no male privilege here. This is just you, your insecurties and inability to not get offended at everything.
Thank Jim Jones, but we’re not going to drink the patriarchal kool aid.
LOL.
What’s even funnier is that this bitch is that it’s so vague, it’s exactly a stereotype. Nobody is being identified here. But maybe that’s why you’re all up in arms about it, because you see bit’s of yourself in it here and there.
Here’s some news: It’s not all about you.
Listen, Jimmy.. Are you ‘Hit me with a flower’? No. Maybe someone else is. You don’t know the context of this post. Maybe someone else does. Here’s some news: BAI BAI
Seeya. I’ll leave you to violently slamming the F5 key at 2am in the morning.
I just wanted to apologize. You have the right to be angry with me. I don’t know that this post is about patriarchy or male privilige but I was definitely wrong to say what I said and I do feel terrible about it. I have felt shitty since I saw the paper this eve at work with my comment in it. When you post a Bitch on this site, it disappears from your screen and then is gone forever. I forgot all about it. This was written at least 5 or 6 days ago now. Then when I saw it in the paper I couldn’t believe what I had said. I have messaged this person now via the same way I saw them the first time to apologize directly. As I said…you have the right to be angry with me. I’m not a bad person.
http://i1.wp.com/apublicdefender.com/wp-co…
Worry about your own fucking armpits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85q6BOnwIA…
Im a nscadian, i am proud of how many of my studens choose wether or not they feel like shaving or wearing bras. I am proud we can have open discussions about these things. I am proud that nscad doesnt mind if you wear make up or not, if you dress up or not (whatever your definition may be). I am proud to be nscadian because nscad is a place of learning and asking questions. Nscad is a place to be free to be silly and explore things yu never thought you were allowed to explore. I feel sorry to the people who are so easily disgusted by things such as body hair and relaxed clothing choice. I feel sorry for people who are not ready yet for many of nscads graduates, because in a few years those famous artists are going to be up front in all news papers reminding us how silly we were to publicly reject something as simple as personal choice. I am proud to be a nscadian. I am proud to not shave my armpits.
Poor OB won`t even know if years from now Art Chick is unemployed or… designing shit for google (or heading up the design department), designing cars (or heading up the design department), working a gov`t job making that fat gov`t money, married to a LCol in the Navy and raising their 3 kids in a healthy encouraging environment, or doing layout for a major porn production company (or heading up the whole lesbian films production section.)
A PRETENTIOUS IDIOT?
“You are the very definition of a pretentious idiot. You go to NSCAD; you refuse to shave your armpits; you throw isms around like they’re going extinct.” It’s not us. It’s you.
“pretentious” (a): making claim to great merit or importance” (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English Usage)
I found this bitch to be “problematic,” as we say in academe. Why did I find it problematic? I found it problematic because the bitchers signally failed to demonstrate the truth of their claim, ie. that the bitchee, so to speak, is a pretentious idiot.
In support of their claim the bitchers advance the observation that the bitchee goes to NSCAD but – and this is important – the bitchers clearly fail to demonstrate any connection between NSCAD on the one hand and being a pretentiousness idiot on the other. In other words, the charge is little more than a damp squib (as we say in academe).
Next, the bitchers claims that the bitchee is a pretentious idiot on the grounds that she refuses to shave her armpits. Once again, the bitchers fail to establish any relationship between the failure to shave one’s armpits, on the one hand, and being a pretentious idiot, on the other. In other words, there is no cause-effect relationship – what other kind can there possibly be in the present instance? – with the consequence that the bitchers’ charge falls on stony soil (as we say in academe).
Finally, the bitchers claim that the bitchee is a pretentious idiot because she throws “isms” around like they’re going extinct. But just what “isms” might they be? Are all “isms” to fall under the bitchers’ interdict (as we say in academe) or, indeed, are some “isms” but not others permitted? In other words, what, if it exists, is the criterion (as we say in academe) by which the two classes of “isms” are to be distinguished? The bitchers are mute on the question and their charges, consequently, must be dismissed “in toto” (as we say in academe).
One can only conclude that it is not so much the bitchee who is to be dunned (as we say in academe) with the soubriquet “pretentious idiot” but rather the bitchers themselves who are doing little more than making claim to great merit or importance. Get ye lost, ye knaves! (as we say in academe).
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Now we’re talking. Took the words right out of my mouth OP.
Minus the armpit hair thing.
Oh, and the “worst type of person”
That was a bit extreme, but I’m down with the rest.
power to the people *black panther fist*
Who ever posted this (and anyone who agrees) is what’s wrong with the world. The girl who chooses not to shave her armpits is just trying to avoid people who are too shallow to see past the physical part and actually look at who she is as a person. Clearly she is much less of a coward than most people because the majority of society is extremely judge mental and mean for one reason-their own insecurity. So to all those smelly people out there giving hugs and wearing scuffed up pants over their hairy fucking bush- YOU GO GIRL and fuck the rest all to hell.
I’m bringin’ bushes back.
I shave my armpits because I choose not to look like some gorilla in a sun dress.
OB WELL SAID!! HERE HERE!!