Snapshot · Fin vs History
Ancient Egyptian beauty standards flipped to thin limbs, no curves, and hairlessness — women used flint scrapers and chemical pastes to remove all body hair, closely resembling modern 2000s aesthetics.
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The history proper begins 30,000 years ago with the Venus of Willendorf — no arms, no feet, all hips and enormous breasts, a practical fertility totem that Paddy immediately characterises as the original dream woman: no face, can't talk back, can't run away. Fin introduces the term steatopygia — the prehistoric ideal of fat accumulating on the lower body — and notes that this is exactly what the body positivity movement has long claimed is our 'natural' beauty standard. Then ancient Egypt arrives and reverses everything: thin limbs, no curves, androgynous like David Bowie, and crucially — completely hairless. Women used flint scrapers and chemical pastes made from boiled bird bones to remove all body hair. Horatio notes it's surprisingly similar to 2000s Kate Moss heroin chic. The hosts also riff on the androgynous qualities of Egyptian aesthetics and the peculiar ideal of having a dog's head on a Kate Moss body.
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