The zero body hair always gets me. "Oh god, zombies! Pass me my razor I need to do my legs, underarms and of course my bikini line"
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Honestly so lucky that they had all those laser hair removal sessions a year before the world ended 🤭
Absolutely! Even luckier than having a neverending supply of entirely smudge proof make up
It's simply survivorship bias. The only women who survive these situations long enough to get a movie are the ones who have short hair on their heads, no visible body hair, and makeup somehow welded to their faces. It's probably quantum, or something.
... 'quantum evolutionary psychological natural selection theory' implies that women will naturally evolve... makeup excreting facial glands.
rofl
It's the only possible explanation for all those future documentaries we've seen. Occams razor and all that. Mens' beards also undergo some sort of evolutionary change that causes them to stop growing at the 'ruggedly manly' length, rather than just keeping on going to 'a bird could, and may be, nesting in it.'
Post Apocalyptic Male Evolutionary Convergence End Point:
I'll do you one better!
I've extracted and manipulated certain glandular fluids from zombie corpses, experimented... and found that it actually topically removes hair, permanently!
I call it... Ozombic.
... Eh? Eh?
I love it!! You may have the last known tube of toothpaste as a reward. In post apocalyptic society that's a great honour
... Could I perhaps be allowed back into your community to occasionally discuss women's fashion instead?
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Not a movie, but Dying Light 1 made my friend group giggle seeing this NPC quest giver:
Edit: Zombie Apocalypse is the context I should've mentioned.
The trope that bothers me is when they make the single minority character also the lead female character and also the gay/bisexual character.
Conveniently squeezing all the required diversity into one convenient character.
As always, no such thing as a bisexual man.
Yep! Extra points if she's not white
That was what I meant by "Minority"
Ahhh sorry Delphia missed the word in your comment
Sure ok but if they made movies with stats without make up and hairy legs and gross teeth, all about finding hygiene products in post apocalyptic society... not many people world watch it.
I would.
I might be wrong and I’m happy to be corrected here. Isn’t it possible to stop getting your period because of high stress on your body? I would guess living through a post-apocalyptic situation might merit that level of stress. But I could be wrong; I have a pretty cushy life all things considered so it’s not like I have direct experience with this kind of thing.
Humans lived in an environment similar to a post apocalyptic situation for 1000s of years and still reproduced just fine. I'm not saying it isn't a thing at all, but I don't think it would be common or widespread.
I'm not an expert either but yeah stress and poor nutrition can mess up your cycle but I don't think indefinitely.
As in, you might not have a period for several months but sooner or later your endometrium will shed.
Endometrium shedding and taxes, like I always say.
They don't often show people scavenging toilet paper or toothbrushes either, it's just something they skip, not necessarily people not knowing how to write women
Tbf the jackets are usually oversized but the rest is true
I feel part of the reason pads are discluded would be the same reason taking a shit is. It's basic function that adds nothing of plot or interest if included, unless it was an actual plot device. Like bears that are attracted to periods. The other tropes though I agree with, and have commented on previously when watching movies. Even non-apocalyptic when women wake up in bed with perfect hair and makeup makes me laugh.
I am genuinely not sure if this is viral marketing for The Last of Us or not.
🤷 Didn't they have a whole scene in the first season where Ellie was trying to discretely get a box of tampons in a store Joel stashed stuff in? And uhh, things got out of hand? I could be misremembering.
That said, if it doesn't bring anything to the story, why bother with it? You rarely see people go to the bathroom in movies/shows regardless of the setting.
Just rewatched that episode. She goes into the cellar of a convenience store and finds a trapped zombie and cuts into its skin, then comes out with a box of tampons. Nothing really too crazy happens even though they make you think it will.
The scene is pretty much 1 to 1 with the game though.
Does have to add to the story/Plot, could be for flavor plus its a TV show so no issue of limited runtime or a chore to get through like a book
I recently got one of those IPL hair removal machines. Hopefully it'll remove body hair permanently 🤞
(realistically it'll get rid of most of it, and grow back slower)
I guess we have to watch people take a shit too, every episode.
I only disagree with the middle comment. You can see the image I linked OP it's fucking exactly the complaint here lmao.
That also bothered me about LOST. Well, that and the fact that the obese character stayed just a obese while being stranded on an island on a fish and fruit diet.