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Binchtopia

Good Girls Go Bald

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week, the girlies are hairy on main to address the question: why are we so obsessed with being smooth? From ancient sugaring practices to TikTok lasers, they trace the cultural history of body hair and explore how whiteness, misogyny, hygiene myths, and beauty marketing all converged to make your stubble a moral failing. Digressions include Eliza’s ongoing war with air travel, Lena Dunham’s latest press tour, and non-qualified med spas that will definitely leave you botched.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan.

To support the podcast on Patreon and access 50+ bonus episodes, mediasodes, zoom hangouts and more, visit patreon.com/binchtopia and become a patron today.

SOURCES:

A full Brazilian or all natural: understanding the influences on young women's decision to remove their pubic hair 

ASU professor encourages students to defy body hair norms 

Body Hair Removal: The 'Mundane' Production of Normative Femininity. 

Caucasian Female Body Hair and American Culture 

Darker-skinned people urged to take extra precautions as laser hair removal industry booms 

From flint razors to lasers: a timeline of hair removal methods

Hair or Bare?: The History of American Women and Hair Removal, 1914-1934

History of Hair Removal 

How the beauty industry convinced women to shave their legs 

How Much A Beauty Editor's Hair Removal Routine Actually Costs 

Male Stigmatization of Female Body Hair

Mapping 'Gross' Bodies: The Regulatory Politics of Disgust 

Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Rebecca Herzig

‘Plucked’: Race, gender, science, medicine converge in history of hair removal

Pubic Hair Grooming Prevalence and Motivation Among Women in the United States 

Shaving and fashion: A storied history

The Casualties of Women's War on Body Hair

The Hair-Raising History of Women's Body Hair 

The History of Female Hair Removal 

The Naked Truth: Why Humans Have No Fur

The Strange Secret History Of Hair Removal Will Blow Your Mind 

Trends in body hair removal as depicted through art

UNSHAVED resistance & revolution in women’s body hair politics 

Why women feel pressured to shave

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Binchotopia.

0:09.0

We hope you enjoy your stay.

0:14.9

Hi everybody, welcome back to Binchotopia.

0:17.1

Hello and welcome back.

0:18.4

I'm Julia Hava.

0:19.3

I'm Eliza McClam.

0:20.4

And if you are listening to this and you would like to hear more of us, you can go to patreon.com slash binge Topia where you can get access to our bonus episodes, our monthly zooms and our media so true. We are preparing for our sleepover tour right now. We're working on getting beautiful gowns. Let me just say that. We're working overtime on getting beautiful gowns. We really are. And I mean, it's so exciting to have an opportunity to wear a beautiful gown. And we want you guys to know that like this is your opportunity to wear a beautiful gown. If you have like a sleepwear item, like a beautiful item that you're like, where am I going to wear that? Wear it to our shows. Wear it to our shows. And by the time you listen this episode,

0:54.8

we will have already gone on some of those shows. So you'll be able to see picks for outfit

0:59.7

inspiration. You also are invited to wear your robe. Whatever you would like to wear.

1:05.1

It's really your truth. Yeah. My computer is taking off right now. I'm like, I wonder if it's

1:09.8

going to actually show up in the audio.

2:18.5

This is my old computer that I keep here and I just always use and it is literally taking off for landing. It's like crazy right now. Do I tell you about my aborted landing? Do we talk about that in the podcast? No, you told me, you texted me about it, but I don't think you officially talked about it. Well, you know, I sort of have like a fear of flying that has become like an acceptance of flying. Well, now it's just having a normal caution of flying since they keep crouching. Well, yes. But you know what? I'm always concerned on the takeoff and then I'm concerned on the landing because those are, of course, the most dangerous times when most of the crashes. You have told me that and that is now when I have the most anxiety. Totally. But so, you know, it's it's normally fine because it's only like 30 minutes total of like crippling anxiety. And of course during that time I'm thinking, God for allowing me to live a beautiful, wonderful life that I love so much. And I'm so grateful for every single facet of it. I kind of go through a highlight reel of all the best moments of my life. That's when you start praying. Totally. Yeah. Totally. And so we were coming into, I was coming into RDEU, best airport in America. And, you know, I'm kind of freaking out on the landing because the plane is going like side to side, side. And I'm like, I really don't love the vibe of that. But, you know, we're coming in and we, I see the runway, the runways in my sights. We're like 10 feet from the runway and I'm like, okay. And that's a moment when I close my eyes and I lean my head back and I'm just like, and we're about to land. it's going to be totally fine. To my shock and horror,

2:51.5

my stomach drops because we start going right. When I tell you, we were 10 feet from the ground maximum. And then all of a sudden we are flying back into the air. That's so scary. So naturally, I'm like, I am a victim of a terrorist attack. Right. That they decided to do right at the end of the flight, right 10 feet off the ground. Hang on. Right. We forgot about that. One more thing I had to do. But then nobody came on the intercom for like five minutes. It was just me and like the lady next to me. And I was like, and of course I asked her like a fucking dolt what is going on as if she knows. Yeah. She does not know. And everyone else is like kind of freaking out on the plane. And then finally the guy that comes on the intercom.

3:07.9

And he's like, we freaking out on the plane.

3:09.8

And then finally the guy that comes on the intercom. And he's like, we're going to try that landing again, folks. Don't worry. We train for this. That's all. Then I was on Reddit looking at how I can listen to. No, literally. Like I'm going to go that deep. So just tell me what happened. be like, we almost hit a bird.

3:05.3

That's what happened.

3:07.1

Like, yes, you did experience that.

3:08.8

We were validating me what happened. Be like, we almost hit a bird. Uh-huh. That's what happened. Like, yes, you did experience that. We were validating that that happened. But I guess if they validated, then they have to like pay people maybe. Yeah, for like the inconvenience or something. Totally. Or they're like liable. Yeah, but I was literally listening to like the flight radios. I listened to like two hours of them and couldn't find the transmission. The don't get any explanation for why it happened either. It's like hello. I was on avionnus.com. That's the place. Actually, never go on that place. I don't know if it happened. I think probably they just actually I have no idea. I was going to make a conjecture. Like they must have like almost like seen something coming and almost collided with it. You know the near misses.

3:41.5

That's what I'm thinking. I was feeling like they must have like they must have like almost like seen something coming and

3:58.2

yeah or like you know the near misses like that's what I'm thinking about yeah well of course and

4:03.2

of course I wanted a place to check and be like this flight almost killed everyone on board and it's like

4:08.8

other people from this flight aren't on Reddit being like what happened to my flight I'm like and

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