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[–]worried19[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's fucked up how much shame society puts on the natural female body. Even those of us who consider ourselves feminist and enlightened end up falling prey to it, just because of how heavily it's enforced. People who know there's absolutely nothing wrong with their body hair will still not display it in public because the taboo is just that heavy.

What's even crazier is that it didn't used to be like this. Women's leg and underarm hair used to be considered totally normal.

[–]burninglikeabridge 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I find the obsession with being hairless kind of creepy. Reminds me of preubescence.

What do you do with your body hair? If you don't mind sharing.

[–]worried19[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've never understood why people remove pubic hair in particular. I find it creepy.

As for me, I'm not that hairy, but I did start shaving my legs and armpits in middle school just out of self preservation. I was already harassed pretty bad at the time, so my reasoning was that I didn't want to give people another thing to bother me about. I don't mind body hair at all. I still remove it just out of habit, I guess at this point. I don't think my partner would care if I didn't. But I've only ever seen a woman in public one time who had visible underarm and leg hair. So maybe I'm not as feminist as I think I am on this issue. It's not like people don't already stare at me for being GNC, what's one more thing for them to stare at?