"Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum. 'My god, the floor's immaculate! Lie down, you hot bitch.'"
(Joan Rivers)

Through the decades, from June Cleaver to Miss June, we've received the message loud and clear:

A real woman waxes.

Whether we've done it for ourselves, or hired another woman to do it for us, our womanly worth has been judged -- unfairly, I might add ...