Alright, not to be the worldâs most obnoxious asshole yet again, but Iâm gonna do it because god knows no one else can be bothered.
This is a failure on the part of the social media manager. The article as you can clearly see in the headline of the link is not talkign about deodorants being fake. People ahve been trying to be less stinky for millenia and thatâs not going to stop any time soon.
Itâs talking about antiperspirants being a scam.
And that distinction is a big one.
Antiperspirants are Things Which Reduce Your Sweatiness. Not your stink, the water coming out of your skin.
Some people have conditions that cause excessive sweating, and those people definitely do still need antiperspirants (or, IDK, maybe not need?? But if they want them they should have them).
The problem is, the profusion of them has created a situation where wholly normal amounts of sweat are pathologized (treated as an illness that needs to be cured).
And, in a shocking twist that shocks no-one, this pathologization especially targets women (and non-white people of all genders, though the article is about women and not about race).
Which is what the article actually talks about.
The social media manager replaced the very specific term antiperspirant in their tweet with the related but not synonymous term âdeodorant.â
Which fundamentally undercuts the articleâs point, and opens the gate for people to make shit-head comments like âoh so you just think everyone should be stinky huh.â
Itâs probably an honest mistake, although not one that anyone who read the article should be making.
But for fucks sakes, if you think women arenât expected to be magically clean and pure in even the most hard labour situations, Iâm going to have to point you to every piece of media over the last century that shows post-apocalyptic men covered in dirt and sweat, and post-apocalyptic women being clean shaven, with styled hair and makeup.
Women are allowed to sweat.
Thatâs the point of the article. That sweating is a normal human function that women also have.
Amazing how that was twisted into Feminists Want Us To Be Filthy And Smell Bad.
Almost like thatâs the exact kind of bullshit the article is talking about or something.
Anyway, antiperspirants give me infected cysts on my underarms because of the mechanics of how they work, and deodorants are still good and part of my daily hygiene. Get fucked.