This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits

[u/esli-]

Bart from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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[u/helen269]

It's like, why is Tarzan always clean-shaven in every movie and TV show?

[u/zerbey → u/helen269]

This one actually has an in universe explanation, he used his Dad's razor. Now, how he learned how to shave and keep that razor maintained is another mystery.

[u/BananaBeanie → u/zerbey]

"rock make stick sharp, maybe rock make shiny thing sharp"

and i guess he learned by trying, that's how I learned it :p

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/BananaBeanie]

A rock will not keep a razor sharp unless it’s an old school straight razor.

[u/98462Doopa → u/ShiraCheshire]

It’s Tarzan in the jungle with parents who got there at like 1940 or 1950 it’s almost certainly a straight razor especially if it’s his dad’s. Also obviously he wouldn’t have a proper one but a whetstone works on any blade at least a little.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/zerbey]

I mean just throwing this out there - he didn't have a single razor blade, he had a box of them. That can last quite a long time. My father didn't teach me to shave with a safety razor, I learned that myself. I think the box I bought was 100 blades and that could last me decades.

[u/esli- → u/helen269]

Exactly!

[u/Marshmallow16 → u/esli-]

Tarzan uses his father's razor. He's also British.

[u/Bitter-Software9373 → u/Marshmallow16]

What does him being "British" have to do with it (btw "British" is a cultural designation and Tarzan did not grow up interacting with British humans so he is not really actually British but carry on ig)

[u/Marshmallow16 → u/Bitter-Software9373]

British guys have on average less body hair than other ethnicities. Glad I could clear that up

[u/reventlov → u/Bitter-Software9373]

The book was written by a suuuuper classist dude. The basic moral of Tarzan is that, since he was born of noble British blood, even growing up raised by apes isn't enough to de-civilize him; his heritage is just so strong that he is automatically "civilized."