{"id":22632,"date":"2013-10-22T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22632"},"modified":"2013-10-22T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:21:14","slug":"dahlia-lithwick-on-smelling-like-a-teenage-boy-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/dahlia-lithwick-on-smelling-like-a-teenage-boy-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Dahlia Lithwick on smelling like a teenage boy for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just a scent &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2013\/10\/axe_men_s_body_spray_what_happens_when_a_woman_wears_it_for_a_week.html\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s a lifestyle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I first told my husband that I was planning on wearing only Axe men\u2019s products for an entire week, his answer was a foreshadowing of things to come: \u201cYou\u2019re planning on wearing that stuff to bed every night for a week? Man. Axe really does work. It\u2019s only been a few minutes and look, you\u2019re already single again &#8230; \u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Despairing of any kind of social response that wasn\u2019t either threats of a formal legal separation from my husband or subtle nostalgia from mothers of former Axe users, I decided to trot out the stuff at the last night of <em>Slate<\/em>\u2019s annual retreat in September. Having sprayed it liberally all over my body on the night of the big promlike party, I watched my roommate \u2014 <em>Slate<\/em>\u2019s Dear Prudie \u2014 actually flatten herself up against a hotel room wall and slide uneasily down the hallway, in the manner of that poor cat being chased by Pep\u00e9 Le Pew. Almost immediately upon my arrival at the festivities I was accosted by three female <em>Slate<\/em> colleagues who spontaneously observed that I smelled completely amazing. I was briefly thrilled at the enthusiastic response, until I realized that I didn\u2019t really want my someday teenaged sons to ever be quite that amazing-smelling to women in their 30s and 40s. One colleague said it brought her right back to whatever it is that happened in the back of a truck when she was herself 14. The silence was slightly less awkward than after the pants-spraying story the week before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just a scent &#8230; it&#8217;s a lifestyle: When I first told my husband that I was planning on wearing only Axe men\u2019s products for an entire week, his answer was a foreshadowing of things to come: \u201cYou\u2019re planning on wearing that stuff to bed every night for a week? Man. Axe really does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,73],"tags":[504,43],"class_list":["post-22632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-randomness","tag-teenagers","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5T2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22634,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632\/revisions\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}