Some women shave their armpit hair, and some women do not shave their armpit hair. The new Wonder Woman trailer reveals that Wonder Woman is a pit-shaver, which is certainly her prerogative, but also mildly curious given the fact that she grew up on an island of all women without access to fashion magazines or the website Reddit. Women debated whether this made sense, which is not surprising because they are the majority of people in the world who must wrestle with the choice of shaving or not shaving their body hair. But men wanted to let us know how they felt, too.
It’s not just that in the trailer you can see Wonder Woman’s hairless pits; it’s also that they are post-production bleached into Barbie levels of smoothness.
And ‘round the internet, male takes flowed forth like unshaven pit hair over 1) whether or not it makes sense for Wonder Woman to shave and 2) whether it’s even okay for women to care about the issue at all, especially as it relates to a comic book character.
Some men wished she did have the pit hair:
controversial hot take:
i wish #WonderWoman had visible armpit hair.she was raised on an island of women w/no schick advertisements!
— ᴘᴀᴜʟ ʀᴏᴛʜ is terrified of Trump's Administration (@paulidin) March 12, 2017
Just doing some pod-related Twitter searching, and until this point I hadn't realised how badly I wanted Wonder Woman to have armpit hair.
— Joe Cunningham (@JoeCunningham14) March 16, 2017
Some men thought the whole discussion was just silly:
There's so much shit happening in the world today and all you wanna talk abt is Wonder Woman's lack of armpit hair srsly pic.twitter.com/1Ky5YbQp8S
— ?? (@majesticfo) March 23, 2017
Some men felt very strongly about anyone complaining about those clean-shaven pits:
People who complain about wonder woman having a cleanly shaven armpit can go fuck themselves.
— John Kirby Do (@kirbydoremi) March 23, 2017
Some men felt the argument that shaved pits are unrealistic for an Amazonian superhero was a weak one:
"Lack of armpit hair not realistic!" complain dummies about magical superpowered comic book Amazon demigoddess #WonderWoman pic.twitter.com/bEjz6secX9
— John Orquiola (@BackoftheHead) March 16, 2017
People upset about #Wonderwoman not having armpit hair because it isn't realistic. SHE THROWS CARS AND FLIES.
— Cogadh (@SonOfUhGunn) March 21, 2017
You want realistic? This guy will show you realistic:
Wonder armpit, Las Vegas Blvd. downtown Las Vegas#WonderWoman #armpit #fujix100s #fujifilm_xseries #mannequin pic.twitter.com/93XBMHLxT0
— adam bucci (@buccidesign) October 16, 2016
No, THIS is realistic:
Wonder Woman should have leg hair + armpit hair. If she came from a place with no male standards of beauty she wouldn't gaf about body hair
— Joshua Bruckner (@SirJoshington) August 13, 2016
Some men felt Wonder Woman should be shaven because she needs to be a proper role model to girls:
https://twitter.com/_ThatGuyT/status/842881879133032448
Some men couldn’t see what all the fuss was about and would like to opt-out of existence as a result:
Woman make 77%.
Women abused in certain countries.
Right to choose.Nah. Let's complain about #WonderWoman not having armpit hair. pic.twitter.com/uvg2KfEA4u
— Chris McCullough – I came for ye candy! ???? (@GrigLager) March 18, 2017
There's an uproar about #WonderWoman having no armpit hair in the new movie. When does that shuttle for Mars leave? #getagrip
— Steve Malloy (@SteveMalloy) March 17, 2017
Some men feel that anyone who cares about this issue is a child:
Apparently there are adults in this world, fully grown humans, who are triggered by Wonder Woman's armpit.
— Tadas Karpis (@tkarpis) July 14, 2016
Hey, Wonder Woman is a woman, isn’t she?
https://twitter.com/gerry_hiding/status/571055432791425025
Some men tried to reason through it:
If Wonder Woman was an Amazon, wouldn't she have leg and armpit hair?
— Bob Farrell (@weirdbobfarrell) May 22, 2014
In the end, women will continue to shave or not to shave as they see fit for their own personal aesthetic, feminist, comfort, laziness and other concerns, but thank you, men, for your thoughts on this critical issue.
Tracy Moore
Tracy Moore is a staff writer at MEL. She covers all the soft sciences like psychology, sex, relationships and parenting, but since this is a men’s magazine, occasionally the hard ones. Formerly at Jezebel.
