Girls With Body Hair

Yeah society is pretty fucking retarded.

If miley cyrus having millions of views on youtube is any indication, society should gather at the next nuclear test site and do the world a favor.

 

Please do explain how leaving my body hair intact is not tending to my personal hygiene. If using the same cleaning process to clean my scalp hair and my leg hair leaves me unclean, shouldn't we all shave our heads along with the rest of it?

My body hair offends those who aren't ready to see and accept me as a human being. To the people who are offended, I am my body and nothing more. My body is powerful, but it's also only one facet of who I am. My boyfriend is ready to accept me as a whole person, more than a body.

 

 
No one's offended over your body hair. They either aren't feeling it, or don't give a shit. No need to paint a darker picture.
 
As for the idea of "acceptance", I'm sure your boyfriend has spent a great deal of time with you and getting to know you. To us, you are just "IDontShaveImPowerful4353" from the forums. Why we would automatically accept you as anything more than a "body" sending messages through cyberspace is beyond me. You're a total and complete stranger, whose first contribution to the forums that most of us have seen, is about not shaving. So...

 

 
No need to apologize, everyone is entitled to their preference and I don't think less of anyone for whatever they like.  Thanks for the logical response - it's something I see come up a lot, and there may be truth to it, but if it's true for women, it's true for men, too.  I've also read some theories that say the hair increases surface area and helps pull moisture away from the skin, which could potentially cut down on odor-causing bacteria buildup.  Then there are the theories on body hair aiding in the transmission of scents and pheromones which can aid in attracting a mate.  It's all interesting stuff, who knows who's right?  I will say that since I stopped shaving my armpits, I feel less sweaty - like my armpits never feel legit wet like they did when they were clean shaven, damp? sure, wet? no.  This leads me to believe the surface area theory - faster evaporation maybe? 
 
@[member="-Martyr"] I should have clarified, the people I would say are offended are the people I encounter in the real world on the daily.  People have visceral reactions to divergence from traditional gender roles. 
 
You're absolutely right, you don't know me, and this is an impersonal channel for discussion.  I certainly am not asking for acceptance of myself from total strangers, I'm simply seeking discussion on a topic I'm curious about.  
 
To everyone who sees this and just thinks, "gross!", I challenge you to ask yourself why?  I'm probing for depth in why people feel adherence to this social norm is important.  

 

Lol, love the double standard you guys are trying to project. Its less hygenic for a woman, but not a man?

Cybertoothtiger, youre just being mean. Thank god highschool is started again and you guys can crawl back under your rocks.

 

 
My scrutiny as far as my comfort level goes with body hair, is one I impose upon both men and women equally. I think grooming of body and facial hair is a perfectly condonable thing in civilized society, even if it isn't mandatory. I may not expect men to shave their legs and arms, but I do expect a man to manscape and keep his body in check, especially if he has a woman to be considerate of. If you have a significant other who doesn't give a shit, that's fine, but most people do. It does nothing but lower my odds in this world to backtrack and say "I'm not gonna shave because every hair on this body is a hair of empowerment from which I can amass a beard of revolutionary intent." Who would give a flying shit? That's not to say that I feel that people who are Rasta, from countries where they maybe grow their hair out, etc should have to conform to fit this specific mold, I just think that the whole "society has poisoned the mind" thing in regards to this is bullshit. Society didn't poison anything. We are society, and somewhere along the lines society decided that they liked shaved instead of bush. For so long men were attracted to playing through the rough, and they did play through the rough- in fact, we're the first generation where it's almost completely alien to want to, but that's probably why we headed in the direction we did. You could maybe imply that the direction we've gone on this issue, is one that was made for the sake of fleeing monotony. And when man attaches himself to something new and foreign, it becomes the great obsession of his existence, even if it is something trivial.

I guess my point is that, if you like your body hair, cool. Just don't bullshit me on how this is some campaign to liberate the mind from the poisons of gender norms, when it's just a post you made to empower yourself based on a decision that none of us really needed to know about, if it was in fact made genuinely and for you. The fact that she's meeting scrutiny, really doesn't say anything about how ignorant people on this forum are, it says more about the fact that people really don't fucking think about the fact that the world doesn't bow or applaud the things that you hold dear so easily. We are all individual people who aren't all necessarily brainwashed sheeple, just because we don't hype up a decision you made that is alien to us. Nor does it make you this purveyor of female rights or empowerment to decide that they wanted to go natural. France has a whole country of women like that.

 

 
Lol the twat is a powerful thing. Its body hair commands respect.

 

That's nonsense. This OP gave you the history of how advertising (which is directly tied to psychological manipulation) is responsible for this "norm."

If you were educated on the history of american culture youll know that the same advertising campaigns targeted kids with cigarettes using the flintstones and even used doctors to say cigs are healthy. "Society" didnt decide we like shaved over bush, you can thank the porn industry for that. Pornography helped a lot of things that were seen as taboo become normal and things that were perfectly normal, like bushes, become taboo.

But I digress. I truthfully dont care what anyone does with their own body, as it has no effect on me whatsoever. Arm pit hair on chicks isnt my thing either. Call it preference.

My grandpa had a weird saying when he was alive, "to each their own said the ol lady as she kissed the cow!



Hehe, carry on..

 

 
If you had to choose between porn normalizing the landing strip, or the government fucking with your kids through propaganda, which one would you choose to give a shit about?

 

I wouldnt choose. Ultimatums are the wrong strategy to use against me.

Besides, my kids are not even ten and they dont trust a fucking thing anyone tells them outside my home.

I think the key is to be intelligent enough to know when the thoughts you think you own are really not yours at all.