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Why does Tolstoy keep saying Princess Bolkonskaya (Andrei's first wife) has a "mustache"? Women don't have facial hair, and every visual representation I've seen of her character doesn't show any mustache either. Is it referring to something else I don't know?

>> No.19612785

>>19612765
Electrolysis is a thing anon. Women with too much test grow mustaches and heavy leg hair, and unless they dont give a shit they wax.

>> No.19612800

>>19612785
But princess bolkonskaya is described as very feminine and beautiful, and as someone who cares about social appearances. I assume "mustache" is Tolstoy's weird way of describing her upper lip, since he always mentions that too.

>> No.19612869

>>19612765
>Electrolysis
It's not a literal cavalryman moustache. Just a bit of down. It's not common but some women have it.

>> No.19612885

>>19612765
It's just some fuzz or shadow. Even when I was young, I went to school with girls that had it. They usually become self-aware enough to start shaving or waxing it by their in high school.

>> No.19612894

>Women don't have facial hair
Oh boy you've yet to see the world. Women do grow facial hair, some none, some less, some more just like certain hormones are spread less or more.

>> No.19612899

>>19612765
anon, are you a zoomer?

>> No.19613055

>>19612894
There are scientific explanations as to why men have facial hair but not women, mostly due to hormones. Science doesn’t change based on your location in the world.

>> No.19613090

>>19612800
Anon, women are not hairless. Especially as they grow older but as early as their teens they get this fuzz above the lip, like the awkward 'stache of a nerdy boy but more feminine. You know like women have hair on their arms but it's much softer and thinner than male hair? Same thing with the 'stache. Thankfully, women who have some heart will wax everything so you will never know. But in case you get stranded on an island with your waifu, know that very quickly she'll have hair in places that you wish you had never known, and due to repeated waxings those hair will have become dark and thick beyond your worst imagination. Your stress-relief love-making on the beach will feel like grinding your pelvis against a cactus, and every kiss will have the portrait of late Nietzsche appear under your eyelids.

>> No.19613092

>>19613055
Its almost based how dumb you are

>> No.19613107

>>19612899
If he was he'd be saying some men have wombs

>> No.19613149

you're a virgin, Harry

>> No.19613410

>>19613107
kek fair enough

>> No.19614848

>>19612765
Either she had some fuzz or she had one of those thin duck lips like that bitch Ruth Wilson.

>> No.19615281

it might be something specific to that translation maybe, i dont know, its been too long for me to remember if that was in the version i read

>> No.19615576

>>19613090
The way God intended

>> No.19615600
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>>19612765
>>19612785
>>19612800
>>19612869
>>19612885
>>19612894
>>19612899
>>19613055
>>19613090
>>19613092
>>19613107
>>19613149
>>19614848
>>19615281
>>19615576
My fucking sides. Op is so disconnected from reality that he doesn't realise women can and do grow hair on their lip, as well as in other places.

>> No.19615625

>>19613090
7/10 prose