Wait, Is That Armpit Hair?!
Huh, can you zoom in a little?
... Meanwhile, at Mask HQ.
“Hey, should we say anything about this Madonna’s armpit hair thing?”
“Why?”
“Everyone else is, I dunno. What is the angle here? Does anyone actually care about this one way or another? Is it subversive? Trivial? Maybe it’s proof that beauty standards are on our mind, or the final piece of evidence that nothing matters? Jesus, I don’t fucking know ...”
An editor yanks a handful of her own hair out, and bumps a mug of coffee onto the floor.
“Can we get a picture of this tuft on screen one?”
Tyler Reinhard is a social technology critic, developer, designer of the acclaimed privacy app Signal, and the co-founder and designer of Mask Magazine.
