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Have you ever noticed how corporations influence our cultural stereotypes and cultural rules? I've been thinking about this alot lately, especially when I'm in the shower. And no, I don't mean what you think I mean ;)
I look down at my supplies, and I realize that I use several more products in the bathroom now than I did a few years ago. It's not just an age thing, either, because I'm talking about since a time far past adolescense.
In the shower, I have shampoo, Old Spice body wash that my girlfriend bought me, but which I now use regularly, and facewash. Out of the shower, I usually use Clean N Clear face moisturizer, deodorant, and sometimes some sort of acne medication if I need it at the time. Oh, and we can't forget the hair products to make me look all sleek and pomped, right?
My toothbrush is now an electric. I use an electric razor / shaver AND a regular razor for those spots that the electric just can't do. I even have an electric nosehair trimmer.
I know all of this is more information than some of you want to know, but I'm trying to illustrate a point. Anna even has one of those new "flossers," used in place of regular floss, which has replaceable heads. See what I'm saying? Do you think that I'd have all of this if our culture wasn't more and more quickly causing us to think we need all of it? It's been typical for quite some time now for women to use more products, because they're culturally stereotyped as the more hygenic, prettier, more made-up ones, but that seems to be changing, and I can't help but think there's a good bit of corporate influence over that.
Remember the Oxy facewash commercial a few years ago, in which the older brother laughs at his little brother because he's using regular soap on his face? "You use the same thing on your face that you do on your arm-pits?"
My theory is that the corporations that already run our lives and send us running to the stores in order to keep up with current fashion trends are trying harder and harder to turn us all into a huge pack of corporate-controlled metrosexuals!
Evidence besides overly-ridiculous hygiene supplies:
- Queer Eye for The Straight Guy
- TLC shows where men get made-over which ALWAYS insist on expensive-as-hell clothing and excess hair products or face products
- College campuses
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing WRONG with this whole metrosexual thing, ok? As you can see from my initial listing, I use quite a few hygiene products myself. However, I do think that we should stop and think for a few minutes before we go out and buy that hot new ELECTRIC FLOSSER, ok?
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