Posted inGender
The Cutting Edge of Razors
Back in the day, men used clamshells as tweezers to yank out excess hair. Thank god for razors.
Posted inPop Culture
Pushpa, KGF and How Massive Beards Came to Replace Hairy Chests as a Sign of Masculinity
There was time a when our heroes carried hair on their chest as a sign of restrained heroism. It’s absurd really, but films like Pushpa and KGF imply the arrival of the most explicit and visible evidence yet of a man’s virility, troublingly told through violence – his overgrown beard.
