hairynipplelover: koalachild:I haven’t posted any me stuff in a while so I figured I’d
hairynipplelover: koalachild: I haven’t posted any me stuff in a while so I figured I’d post these pics from the other day in the Kroger parking lot. I shared them on Twitter w/ a caption about how cute and happy I felt and of coooourse my pits made several ppl feel entitled to say rood things abt me. having grown up with a mom who didn’t alter her body hair it took me a long time to realize that many women shave practically their entire body. for maybe 5 years I obsessed over my leg hair, armpit stubble, pubic hair, and my bleach blonde baby happy trail because I thought that’s what u were supposed to do, and I was afraid of the social consequences of not shaving because I was already different in a lot of incurable ways. thankfully I’m comfortable enough w/ my body hair that I’m not giving myself razor burn, cuts, and ingrown hairs in the most sensitive places (one time I sliced off some skin that was dangerously close to my asshole), but I still feel hurt and angry and sad when people, even strangers, say hurtful things about me and to me. despite my hurt feelings, I’m super aware that my light colored body hair being barely noticeable affords me a level of privilege that makes it easy for me to “blend in,” and thus makes not shaving a relatively easy decision that doesn’t catch a whole lot of criticism, or deserve a whole lot of praise. I fully believe that whether a woman removes body hair or not shouldn’t be a feminist issue, but as long as my Latina cousins are being taken to the salon to have their face waxed beginning at age 8, as long as the idea that naturally occurring body hair is acceptable for one gender but unhygienic, dirty, and ugly for another is widely held, as long as women are pressured by partners to make their vulva look like that of a child for others’ pleasure, as long as girls are getting bullied over the thickness of their arm hair in elementary school, as long as women are ridiculed for loving and embracing the hairy bodies we are allll born with, and as long as women shave because they fear the reaction if they were to stop shaving, body hair is a feminist issue. and the fact that not shaving my body is considered revolutionary is ridiculous. and the fact that children and women are made to feel uncomfortable about the natural state of their body for their entire life is more disgusting than any sweaty pit hair will ever be. Well put -- source link