I loved this series. Was amazing.
What is it?
Dirk Gently
First season was over the top great.
Second season dropped off a bit but still a good watch.
Saddest ending with them setting up s3
They nipped out the non-head hair genes during the cloning, duhhhhhhhhhhh
Sexualization of women x sexualization of prepuberty.
It’s pedophilia. You’re welcome.
You’re not wrong.
Meanwhile they had to spend a huge emount of time airbrushing Ripley in Alien because she told them to fuck off with that shit.
This isn’t true and didn’t happen.
Maybe they forced her to get laser hair removal when they were messing with her. Super underrated show! I love Dirk Gently, whatever character has screen time at a given moment is my favorite character.
Wasn’t this scene pre-messing-with, or had she previously been at the CIA facility before the show started?
She was imprisoned as a child/teen.
Sorry, which show is this? Dirk Gently’s Holistic etc? Or the miniseries Dirk Gently (2012)?
I should re-watch it I guess, it’s been a while. (The lady still looks familiar though)
100% guarantee that if she did have armpit hair some other sad bastard would be making a post commenting on it
Honestly, this is still an argument in favor of it, in my opinion. Those people only have their opinions because they were normalized at one point in time. If they’re angry with you then you did something right, and hopefully in the next generation that opinion will be even less normalized.
I’m not sure that’s a good enough reason to avoid showing women with body hair in media.
I’m not saying it is. Just that you can’t please anybody it seems
Eh, diversity in media is more important than sexist assholes who think they have a say in how women are supposed to look.
Yes. I agree. I’m not sure why you’re arguing with me about it
I’m not arguing, I was expanding on your comment.
Where was I arguing with you?
Just felt like you were
This is a site designed to support and encourage discussion and conversation between users.
I’m not arguing with you by engaging you in conversation based on the content of your comment.
That user has a distinctly combative tone in general.
That’s rich coming from you ;)
Ah yes, the famous problem of making everyone happy.
Hey some people are into that!
Somebody has a kink 👆
Not everything about women has to be sexualized.
There’s this story that Mark Hammil tells about being on the set of Star Wars and he mentions to Harrison Ford that their hair should be wet, since it was just wet in the previous scene.
And Ford says something like, “This ain’t that kind of movie, kid. If the audience is talking about our hair, something has already gone wrong.”
I actually really like that line. I remember watching the latest Star Wars trilogy and just nitpicking. I’m not a super fan, I don’t even own anything Star Wars. But, the movies kept pulling out stupid takes that my suspension of disbelief was gone and I kept focusing on hyper details.
I also like that Harrison Ford calls everyone kid.
Rise of Skywalker gave everyone what they wanted.
If you watched it wanting a fun action adventure movie, it gave you what to wanted.
If you wanted a movie you could nitpick and complain about on the internet, it gave you what you wanted.
Mark Hammil does an excellent Harrison Ford impression, so there’s a possibility that the “kid” is part of the impression, rather than a direct quote. Also, I was doing the quote from memory, so it’s also possible that I remembered it wrong.
But I also like the thought that Harrison Ford calls everyone kid.
He is the one to pull it off every single time with perfect naturalness.
Please remember that Star Wars was released in 1977. It absolutely blew people’s minds because they were doing something that nobody had ever seen before, to an audience that was just perfectly ripe for receiving it. It would have been impossible for them to cover every single base, when they were doing such ground breaking things, you kind of have to see it in the light of that, like you would watch Metropolis by Fritz Lang, or Nosferatu.
You can’t nitpick it the same way you can Marvel slop in 2026, there was so many ground breaking things, most of all it was a genuinely alien experience because we hadn’t really seen such a well designed intergalactic society and world building before, that all the minor stuff is just afterthoughts to what the greater story was.
It’s like finding flaws in a renaissance painting, or the Iliad, or classical opera- which is a fitting comparison considering SW is the definition of space opera, down to containing one of the most genuinely masterful, memorable, and well crafted scores of all time.
Actually, you can always nitpick some more.
Ford’s attitude about the films has always just pissed me off. If you don’t like something, which you clearly don’t, why you do it in the first place?
Hell, I’d argue his career wouldn’t be what it became without star wars and he should at least be able to acknowledge that.
He always just comes off as “I’m better than you, I’m better than this franchise, I’m better than anything”
Christopher Eccleston famously hated Dr who, and he never seems to say a negative thing about it. Plenty of MCU actors hate the MCU, they don’t talk shit, and I can’t see them talking shit about them for several decades either.
why you do it in the first place?
it paid more than carpentry. No, really.
Ah but carpentry is rewarded in the kingdom of heaven.
yeah, if you’re really lucky people will notice you and you’ll nail your big debut
dumptrucks of money.
Which is why sigourney weaver kept making aliens movies
And fucking ACED every one of them.
That’s the sign of a consummate professional. You show up and you do it anyway, and you nail it.
Famously, Agatha Christie hated Hercule Poirot, yet she still wrote him into some of the best detective stories in the world.
Yep. I find it interesting, too, that the first appearance of ford is in some western tv show from 1967… it took a full decade for him to become a real star. meanwhile he worked on FFC’s cabinets lol
Christopher Eccleston famously hated Dr who
its my understanding that he hated Russell T Davis because Davis was abusive to the staff.
MCU is genuinely mass market slop though. I cannot believe people watch that drivel, and I judge people who do. That’s all I have to say on the matter, good day, Sir, I SAID GOOD DAY.
Ford’s attitude about the films has always just pissed me off. If you don’t like something, which you clearly don’t, why you do it in the first place?
I mean I don’t love my job but I keep showing up for the paycheck.
I hate my job and I don’t even have a job.
And you probably do a good job, just like Ford (although I’ve never seen a single star wars movie and it’s going to stay that way).
Ford struggled with anxiety and imposter syndrome early on, and developed his tough, flippant exterior around that as a coping mechanism. So there are a lot of stories about him saying callous, tough guy things. But he’s quite a softie who really loves the art of acting, so I don’t think he’s really dismissing everything and everyone outright.
I think Ford’s attitude is similar to Guinness’ attitude - it’s not that he hates Star Wars, it’s that he hates that it’s completely overshadowed his other work and nobody ever talks to him about any other part of his career.
You mean like Indiana Jones?
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
ended too soon :(
Eh it’s over twice the length of the original BBC one. I wouldn’t have minded seeing more. But it ended at a good spot at least. Honestly surprised it lasted that long with Elijah in it post LOTR.
It was only cancelled because the showrunner got metoo’d
I think the joke was more that she doesn’t know what fruit shampoo is. She was excited to shower, she knows that bathing is even if she doesn’t do it often.
Does that mean she’s removing body hair? No, I get why it seems inconsistent. I do think humans have a very diverse expression of body hair and some people have barely any visible body hair even if they don’t remove it.
If I want to appear hairless I need to shave daily (or more, dark hair on pale skin RIP) whereas I have friends who appear hairless on their legs and armpits unless you get really close. No, it’s not from waxing or laser, it’s just the texture and colour of their body hair.
I’m not trying to suggest this is definitely what is going on here and it would be nice to see a wider expression of appearances in media. Maybe then we’d get over the narrow view of “acceptable” body hair.
My ex of never had to shave anything because she had alopecia. Looked completely normal from the neck up but from the neck down the only place she grew hair was in the crotch, and even that was thin and faint.
Her legs and pits were naturally hairless.
I’m AMAB and I barely grow armpit hair at all. Barely a few strands. I’ve also never grown a beard or chest hair.
I knew it!
Forcing actors to grow body hair in their more intimate areas should not be a virtue. That’s weird and over the line and you should be ashamed.
It’s a movie. It’s not a realistic story and shown through a camera, not someone’s real eyes. Suspend your disbelief or leave.
Unless I’m missing a comment from the poster, I don’t think there’s an argument being made to force this actor to grow body hair just for this role.
Just that it’s odd that they’d go through the effort in makeup to make them appear dirty and unkempt, but don’t bother to include body hair. It’s a common practice in makeup to add beards to men to give them a more unkempt appearance, but not armpit or leg hair on women even though most adult women grow hair in these areas.
This, and I hope that it wasn’t a body hair fetish that triggered this post.
God forbid women want to be more accurately represented in media. Noooo, it has to be a fetish.
Reading that far into anything sanitation posts is illadvised at best. They post like its their job.
I wonder what makes people dislike body hair
Right … no need to grow it. You can just attach some fake hair.
Exactly, but even so, it’s an actors job, many lose weight, gain muscle, grow hair, lose hair, all the time for the role. Such a strange thing to be angry about, let the actors decide themselves lmao. What’s with the new trend of people getting offended on behalf of others?
Yup, totally with you.
If Christian Bale wants to make himself look like Skeletor for a role, that’s his choice.
It’s ok if they do it. It’s not ok to be mad if they don’t go far enough. Are you going to cripple the house actor for realisms sake?
Creating these demands and expectations is not ok.
You are forgetting that acting is a job. One the actors have the freedom to decide and negotiate their terms.
It’s perfectly reasonable for a character to have armpit hair, even if that personally offends you.
The actor can decide what to do with the director or whomever. You dont need to project your own opinions onto some random actor, they have their own.
Also, it is absolutely fucking okay to expect consistency in a film/show.
I don’t expect them to have shaven armpits. I do not care either way. It’s a weird thing to notice anyway.
Reading comprehension here is worse than tumblr, istg.
Thanks. Thought they said the actor should just do all the afformentioned things.
The post pointed out an inconsistency, anyone would expect an unkempt person to not shave their armpits. Perhaps the director missed this (as they often do, there’s a lot of inconsistencies in films and more so in shows) in this case, or just didnt care.
But if a role required armpit hair (or literally anything else), then it would be expected the auditioning actors would be willing to grow it or wear fake etc. If they wont or cannot, then it’s totally reasonable for someone else to be cast instead.
An expectation that an actor tries their best to fill their role is absolutely okay. Just because you have a personal issue with armpit hair, doesnt mean it should not be a factor in aesthetics of a character.
Haven’t seen the movie but I bet there are another million things that doesn’t make any sense for a skinny woman to be able to do.
Physics leave the room when women starts swinging…
It’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, physics was never invited in this story.
Alternative (meta)physics
Alopecia of the armpits?
Maybe it was just luck that her pits are shaved. I mean her “super power” was basically just a Rube Goldeberg machine of happenstance going on around her.
