Boo-friggin' hoo.

I woke up this morning, and before I had my coffee, I dragged a really sharp knife over my face and neck, and then splashed rubbing alcohol over the area.

After that, I took an ornate piece of cloth, tied it around my neck in a complex knot and pulled it tight.

Strange... this seems to be the only thing filed under "Hairless Intern".

@embee: no kidding. then I crushed tiny beans and boiled them in water, drinking the scalding liquid, followed by burning tiny little dried leaves and inhaling the smoke. and that was for breakfast!

I can't stand to watch. Start the new revolution: Women will henceforth cease to groom their body hair. Instead they will be proud of hairy legs, brows, pits, and mustaches (you know who you are).

How many women want to join!!!! Who's with me??? All I want to know is: who's with me???

@TDG: I'm with you. Except for the mustaches. The mustaches gots to go.

@92BuickLeSabre: I'm just saying that the War of the Sexes is a detente.

We make them walk in shoes that can make them break an ankle; they make us walk around the city in a suit in the summer.

We make them shave their legs and naughty bits; they make us shave every day (not to mention the manscaping b.s.)

We make them wear pantyhose; they make us wear something to strangle us with.

I think the last salvo in the war was when men told women to drag a sharpened pencil around their eyes every morning.

He thinks this sucks. This pain lasts a couple minutes. The growing-in takes weeks and will itch like a mutha. And then there'll be the ingrown hairs. Oh yeah... This is nothing compared to whats coming up. Enjoy, Benny! Hope it was worth it!

That's not blood, Benny - turns out you were a little excited...

so, it's actually my (a guy's) fault if a woman has to subject herself to a bazillion procedures to feel more attractive? yeah, and it's my fault that she is bleeding every 28 days, too!

Thbft.

They didn't show the before-and-after.

@embee: ah, then you missed the part when they started suggesting that men started "getting rid of those damned unibrows"

tweezers are for splinters thank you very much.

Too bad the ladies don't have facial hair they need to shave all the time.

@yogibimbi: "and it's my fault that she is bleeding every 28 days, too!"

No, but its our fault if she's NOT.

It IS painful, I know firsthand. But within a day or two the inflammation goes away and you're left with that secret sexy feeling that no one else knows about. Almost empowering.

As for the 'war of sexes' - imho the ladies do their thing more for their own benefit or for other ladies to look at, NOT for their men. It IS their choice. And it's not like we don't put up with an extraordinary amount of petty shit from them in order to keep the peace.

@yogibimbi: Would you drag a sharpened pencil along your eyelid just to make yourself feel good? Would you walk down a sidewalk filled with grating and cracks in 3" stilettos just for kicks?

Women do a lot of dumb stuff... mainly because it's been reinforced that it's what's required to make them attractive to men.

FWIW: every time I bitch about wearing a suit, my girlfriend reminds me of the dangers posed by drinking too much coffee or tea while in pantyhose.

@embee: I, for once, am not making anybody walk around in shoes they can break their ankle in.

98% of the women that do cannot walk properly in high heels and it looks bloody unattractive to see them stumbling around and just looks plain uncomfortable. I cannot understand what anybody would want from high heels, wearer or observer, and she who bears this discomfort voluntarily is very prone to, at some point, extract some sort of revenge from the one she thinks made her do it.

Oh, such twisted logic. Getting beaten up for something she thinks I want her to do... But happens all the time. It is called projecting one's dissatisfaction with one self onto another person. But I'll stop that now. There is white smoke coming out of my ears. Can't be healthy to think those thoughts....

@homerjay: ooops, have to make a phone call... Must find phone, must find phone...;-)

@banmojo: so true, my friend!

That's gotta hoit.

@yogibimbi: Well, high heels really do make people look taller and straighter and increase the appearance of muscle definition. If one is a proverbial "leg man" there is a pretty big difference to the eye.

So, yeah, I do believe high heels succeed in making one more attractive to others (not just to oneself.)

@yogibimbi: lets keep high heels out of this, even makeup but hair? i bet you love hairy armpits and legs.

I love how he's doing this for the Jezebel girls to "equal the playing field" and he's wearing a Hustler shirt. hahaha

Why must we war? I wear high heels, skirts, make up and do all the girly stuff, but I do it for ME. No one makes me, and I dont care what anyone else does. Personally I dont care if a guy looks like BigFoot with 5 oclock shadow if he is intelligent and has a good sense of humor.

(And to think, I felt guilty just making my intern go to the coffee shop. You people really break them in!)

you know. girls do it for girls. i just witnessed two girls passing each other on the street. one of them turned around after passing and checked the other one out. if that had been a man, she'd have been labeled a pervert or sex-monger. but it's ok because she's a girl. and girls look at girls quite frequently. the older i get i realize that they don't want to look good for men. they want to look better than other women. it creates this weird competition that men get blamed for. society is weird.

out.

To be honest, when I picture a girl in high heels, I'm not picturing her walking...

@atomx: amen to that.

Ahh ladies, ladies.

High heels, eyeliner, makeup, periods, brazillian body waxes, painted nails, it doesn't matter to us. Is your body - your actual body (and not the meaningless peripherals) - hot, or not? That's what matters to us. And that's all that should matter to you. if you are, come over here, and recieve our much coveted attention. If not, work on getting your body hot. And while doing so, well, you can still cook, clean, and take out the garbage for us and we promise to look at you every now and then if there aren't any hotties around and there's nothing good on TV.

This is how we really think, and how we'll always think, no matter what. We will endure these sort of things so you feel better about yourself. It doesnt matter, because we all know, once you're 24 and up, you start needing us a helluva lot more than we need you (And we got the internet for emergencies!) So suck it chickies! and we mean that both ways, btw.

Sincerely, all men everywhere.

ps - bonus if you can tell if I'm parodying men or being sincere ;)

@Curves:

Cool. Where you at?

@JayDoubleYou:

I Vote Sincere

@woman everywhere:

Either you are good looking and makeup, high heels, hairstyles etc enhance that slightly, meaning you'd look just as good without it, or you aren't good looking, and no amount of anything superficially cosmetic is going to help.

We care MUCH more about how you are going to look in the morning than we do how you looked the night before. oh and we care about your brain more than that or something.

HOWEVER, i'd much rather date an 8 who knows basic car maintenace, linux and how to defend herself than a 10 who knows fasion, reality tv and daddys PIN. I said date. Of course i'd rather fuck the 10. But i would make love to the 8. But then... I'm gonna fuuuuuuuck herrrrrrr haaaaAAaaAAaaaaaaaaAAAAARD!

making men do those unpleasant things that women have to do

Uhh...women don't HAVE to do any of these things. These are choices that they make.

I wish I could find the bit about the guy who waxed his ass crack. It's hilarious. It was rather unenjoyable for awhile. I hope you enjoy it Benny.

women who demand hairless men are closet lesbians

ben's looks so young that i can't help but wonder if he even has the prerequisites for special back, sack and crack waxing.

also some advice for ben: "you got it done for work"

story time!

They should have done electrolysis instead! That way he'd never have to worry about them making him do this again. Also, I don't do this for my guy or my competition: I have body hair issues. I don't care about it on other people, but GOD it scares the hell out of me when it's on me.

@nutbastard: At? I am in the north woods, chasing BigFoot in 4" spike heels of course.....

@curves: Report to the cloning chamber please.

@Curves:

i applaud your ability to liveblog while persuing your cryptozoological prey. you didn't mention it, but im assuming you're also applying eyeliner mid-stride while selecting and chambering the appropriate tranquilizer round, correct?

Oh wow, butthurt much?
I mean, how people turned such a funny video into sex wars so quickly?
This is not about which sex has to pass through the worst pains, and which sex suffers the most.
This is about having a laugh at a guy that's having a waxing session for his first time.

Also, Benny, congrats... I wouldn't do that not even if my paycheck depended on it.

"The Jezebel babes are working on a series about turning the tables, making men do those unpleasent things that women have to do,"

Sounds like the Jezebel babes are scraping the bottom of the barrel for content to put on their site. "..things that women have to do.."? I'm sorry, but there's no basis for that. Last time I checked I have never forced my wife to do anything she didn't want to. Women don't HAVE to do anything. Yes, she goes through some of the same painful grooming processes that most women take part in, but it's only by her own accord.

Do I like and appreciate it? Yes. Do I perform some of the same rituals out of a mutal respect and understanding that proper, albeit optional, grooming is a two-way street? Of course I do. Would I like it if my wife decided to go all natural as the good Lord intended? Only as much as she would like it if I chose to do the same.

The bottom line is, women don't HAVE to groom themselves any certain which way. They CHOOSE to do so not for the men, but for themselves. It's a wise and understanding man who chooses to do the same in return. Either way, it's all about choice.

@JayDoubleYou: I would like to invite you into the commenter hall of fame for that one. That was awesome.

@embee:

Boo friggin hoo at having to shave your tiny little face every morning. Try shaving the entire surface area of both of your legs AND your pits every morning.

Boo friggin hoo at wearing a neck tie. Try putting on a pair of panty hose just once. Seriosuly.... try it.

You don't know the meaning of boo friggin hoo...... wussy!

As radio talk show personality, tom Leykis points out, have you noticed that the fattest chcicks have the most detailed manicures. One wonders if they think it will make men not notice the extra 100 pounds they are carrying around!

Hey millions of women around the world go 'au natural' without feeling the need to bow in to the pressures of the cosmetic industry and I applaud their men for accepting it however I Thank the God's I live in a society that praises cleanliness and underarm deodorant!
I prefer a nicely groomed lawn to an unkempt rain forest any day.

@Skeptical_Geezer:

word. leykis 101 FTW

goddamn i hate FTW, LOL, LMAO etc but sometimes... something should be FTW...

Note to self: no longer want to be intern at Gizmodo.

benny was a big hit on the jezebel site. we all want to fuck him.

2 words...

go gay

And that was the last time anybody ever heard from Benny "the Nerd" Goldman.

Sorry I don't necessarily agree with the caption "making men do those unpleasant things that women have to do", women do not have~ to do any of that crap, implying that they do negates the fact that they have a choice in thinking for themselves and not following the bs that the cosmetic companies spout off "in order to be beautiful". Complaining about doing something that is completely your choice does not promote sympathy in any regards. (and I am not an au natural type either, i keep myself clean, shower everyday, shave an all that fun stuff, however i do not see where anyone ~has~ to do anything)