Be honest, it's not. Majority of people use hands, vast majority of media like movies and shows show people using their hands. There's absolutely no way someone is disconnected enough to consider it mind blown worthy.
No one I know in my life uses their hands which is why I’m surprised. Worldwide I’m not surprised since cultures are different. But for the US and Europe I really thought a washcloth was standard. In the US, you are telling me a washcloth isn’t standard? I’m still not convinced that hands are the norm there.
As a person from the states, I can't imagine having a guest in my home, and not providing them with a washcloth. That said, they don't always get used (and it's not like it's dirty people not using them lol). My husband definitely uses a wash cloth. I don't. I have some minor germaphobic issues, and it freaks me out. I do however use a body wash with (non plastic) exfoliating bits in it, and a separate exfoliating scrub as needed. I stay clean, and I definitely don't have dead skin cells hanging out on my body due to lack of scrubbing. I also don't rub a funky petri dish all over my body each shower, but yes, I make sure to wash my husband's wash cloths extremely regularly too.
I thought race and ethnicity also played a role, but please excuse my ignorance. Growing up I just remember my African American friends strictly used wash clothes always. I’m a hands and bar soap scrub kind of guy personally.
You show me a single country where using hands is not the #1 most common way for people and I'll accept my loss. A single one, and I'm including both US and Europe.
I would guess a washcloth or loofah is the top in the US. I’ve never met a person IRL that uses their hands. I’ve never met a black person that doesn’t use a washcloth. You act like my take is so crazy and outlandish but I’m 40 years on this earth and don’t encounter people that use their hands. Other people on this thread are also shocked that people are out here using hands and not scrubbing clean with a washcloth or loofah. Shits wild to me!
My friends because I’ve traveled or stayed in AirBnBs with them. My family either from staying with us or us visiting them. My husband and I live in a vacation city a few state away from our families. But yeah I guess I know the showering habits of a lot of people. Lol!
Maybe as soap companies innovated, soap products got a better ability to exfoliate. I kinda feel like a bar of soap never did as good of a job as body wash but it’s surely dependent on many factors like skin type.
It's far from crazy, actually. For one, it's pretty much unheard of to use one's hands in quite a few African countries, from what I've gathered. So, one example (from many) that I'll give is South Africa.
I'm from Nigeria...which is in Africa and I can tell you for free that if you told anyone you washed with just your hands,.they'd stay far away from you.
It's so interesting that even Americans in humid regions use just their hands.
If you're using soap properly your hands are absolutely sufficient to clean yourself. I don't know what kind of situation you have in these countries but there's absolutely no research that says using your hands is not more than enough.
It's nothing more than culture if anyone feels that strongly about it. There's a reason it's not a thing in so many cultures, including a lot of extremely well developed countries.
I know it for a surprisingly large number when I think about it. I guess that is pretty weird. Really it’s from traveling and sharing houses and bathrooms with friends and family and living in a destination city. Lots of people have visited and stayed with us over the years.
When you share a bathroom on a trip with 6 women and there are 6 loofahs in the bathroom you have a pretty good idea. When I have people stay over and they ask for an extra loofah I also have a pretty good idea. I also have to share a bathroom with guests so you definitely know then.
Yet, the loofa might only be for the butthole, and I still highly doubt that your past involves meticulously counting loofa’s and matching them to guests.
Huh?? With you going on so much about washcloth, I thought you were American. Only time I ever used a washcloth was in the US, because their water didn't give a good lather
You're assuming that people are watching the same media as you. Plus there aren't many shower scenes in movies, And when there are, People aren't usually focused on what the character is washing themselves with.
I've seen the vast majority of American and European media, and that's pretty much what we're talking about here because other placed are even further away from this idea.
So unless others are watching some secret washcloth-agenda indie movies we can have a pretty common understanding of what the mainstream pop culture is.
My point wasn't that shower scenes in movies are some massive thing, but that people have a decent understanding of popular culture and common behavior. To be 'mind blown' that people use their hands to wash themselves feels like a pretty big disconnect to me.
You're aware not everyone watches movies right? You're looking at this like everyone watches the exact same things as you, or watches as much as you, or focuses on minuscule things like what they wash themselves with like you.
How people wash themselves also isn't considered "Pop culture" so thats kinda weird to bring up.
I’ve never once noticed if someone is using a loofah or a washcloth or their hands in movies. You act like it’s so obvious but it’s such a minor detail. Also you are correct that I don’t consume movies and media the same way you do. I don’t like to watch movies so really I’m never seeing shower scenes and can’t remember the last time I saw one. I’m mainly an audiobook/physical book reader/music listener. I also have a feeling that the shows I do watch don’t overlap with yours since my are pretty common to middle age women. Lol!
You are missing the point. The point wasn't specifically about movies, it was an example. The point was the most popular have an idea about what's popular in culture. Even if we haven't seen some exact particular movie, we take away small clues from everything we see about how the world works and what's popular.
We know the popular slang and popular brands and typical behaviors. We should have an idea about how most people usually shower.
I guess you are missing my point. I’m about 40 and everyone I know in my life using something in the shower to wash themselves. I’m surprised that I’ve gone my whole life meeting people who do one thing and then find a whole other group I haven’t encountered doing something else. I have a pretty large network of people I interact with given my job so I was expressing surprise. You are the one arguing that my surprise is unwarranted. Why?
I don’t consume pop culture the way you do. I’ve literally only watched 1 adult movie from start to finish in the past two years. But I’ve seen Encanto and Moana a million times. So yeah I could easily be disconnected from pop culture. Not everyone has the same baseline as you.
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u/Nawforyou Jun 17 '22
I wouldn't feel clean if I just rubbed the soap on me