Recent Comments
- octogalore on Things That are Dope
- missbhs on Things That are Dope
- Marked Hoosier on Things That are Dope
- Auguste on Things That are Dope
- Anne on Things That are Dope
Links
Archives
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
Categories
- 100 Things
- About
- Activism
- Advertising
- Animals
- Art
- Asides
- Assholes
- Back In the Day
- Barack Obama
- Beauty
- Blegging
- Bloggery
- Blogging
- Books
- Business
- Celebrity
- Chef
- Children
- Class
- Clothing
- Complaints Dept.
- Computers
- Consume
- Craft
- Culture
- Design
- Dick Cheney
- Dudes
- E
- Education
- Election
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Family
- Feminism
- Film
- Food
- Fred Thompson
- Games
- Gardening
- George W. Bush
- GLBTQ
- Good Reads
- Grown Ass Men
- Hate
- Health
- Help Us Help Ourselves
- Hillary Clinton
- History
- Holidays
- Housing
- Humor
- Idiots
- Idols
- Indiana
- John McCain
- Karl Rove
- Katrina
- Labor
- Language
- Law
- Marriage
- Meme
- Money
- Movies
- Music
- Obligation
- Parenthood
- People
- Pets
- Podcasts
- Poetry
- Politics and News
- Poverty
- Pr0n
- Racism
- Recipes
- Relationships
- Religion
- Round Up
- Rudy Giuliani
- School
- Science
- Sex
- Sports
- Stories
- Stuff
- Suburbia
- Technology
- The Tube
- Things We Can Do
- Travel
- Violence
- War
- Weirdness
- Whee!
- Wordpress
- Work
Notice how the only person that said the under arm hair didn’t bother them seemed like an outcast. I could be jumping too quickly on stereotypes though.
I don’t know what is funnier, Shazia Mirza’s title of “Comedienne campaigning for hairier women” or the male host saying this:
“That’s just about as far as his tummy can take? [...] I feel slightly physically ill when I see woman with hairy legs.”
I have seen women with hairy legs, if you can call them that, and I must say that their hair growth has been patchy and almost nonexistent. Any ideas for this retardation of hair growth? Too many years of shaving? Genes? Patriarchal radiation?
I’d like to argue patriarchal radiation, but I think it’s partly genes and partly hormones.
Your preview is off. It told me my BR would be two spaces if I kept everything on the same line. You might want to fix that. FYI.
Test
Two BRs
genes/hormones. If I let my leg hair grow, it’s thicker than my husband’s.
Eight thousand pounds is a fuck of a lot of money to spend on hair removal.
Hey, Lauren. I totally commented.
I’m pretty lax when it comes to body hair personally. I also regularly shave my armpits so I think I have a little understanding of what it’s like. I’ve only ever shaved my legs twice, and my hair is so thick it doesn’t really look that great. I think, though, if there were effective hair removal that I could afford I’d probably get rid of my leg hair. Now, if there were something I could do about my fucking nose hair… sheesh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y9vyjZvrX8
I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered, confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!
More seriously, I seem to get away with not shaving. I suspect people are too polite to mention the armpits, and the hair on my legs is pale anyway.
He may be a bastard, but at least the nauseated blighter admits that it’s his problem. And I wouldn’t go so far as to say that hairy women make me ill, but I won’t lie: I would probably find underarm hair on a woman unattractive. It’s a horrible thing to say, and I’m not proud of it.
Wow! Eight thousand pounds! (I’d like to know where she thinks you can buy a house for that though).
I have seen women with hairy legs, if you can call them that, and I must say that their hair growth has been patchy and almost nonexistent.
You haven’t seen my hairy legs, then. I think most women with my sort of hairiness genes shave their legs.
‘Cept my sister, Lynn. She wears her leg fur proudly. On the other hand, I shave; my leg hair is light, but both dark and differential. So when I grow leg hair, it looks less like leg hair and more like uncleanliness.
I find hairy women absolutely erotic and sexy.I wish there were more women who had the courage to put those razors down.Legs,pits etc.I luv it all and stop saying women who are hairy are unclean that is ridiculous.If you don’t bathe,wash or shower that would be unclean.Funny how there is a double standard.Hairy men aren’t considered unclean.Wish I could meet a sexy hairy woman in Los Angeles I would spoil her
Well, there are lots of wimmin with body hair in T.O. They’re queer or pretty rad fem, though.
I’ve shaved my legs about three times in my entire life. I guess I get away with it because of a combination of being dark(er) skinned with light coloured, light textured body hair…everywhere except my armpits :) which are thickly covered.
I shave them maybe two or three times a year, if I remember. Mostly I don’t. I feel the pressure to do it…which I completely resent…which is why I won’t shave them. I’m stubborn and anti-authoritarian, so the idea of someone deciding that my pits or legs or crotch or whatever is too hairy, is completely unattractive.
The gender split is completely ridiculous. Papi, my papi, primary partner man, is fond of saying that if aliens came down and looked at human beings with all our outmoded, completely idiotic rituals, they would have to scratch their heads…if they had heads, that is. :)
i shaved my legs from about 8 years old till 14 when i started to want to be a ‘woman’ and i thought it took some action other than being physically female. then i realized that my vagina worked well enough on its own to prove my femininity and that anything above and beyond my anatomy that was needed to prove my devotion to my sex was idiocy. i don’t shave my legs, i don’t shave my armpits i don’t shave my pubic hair but not because of politics really, because i’m lazy and i don’t give a fuck what people think about my body or my body hair. it’s mine.
I am a 26 yo women who is hairy just about everywhere except my back. I’ve been like this since age 10 or 11.
I used to teased or shunned for it alot, but what can you do? I pay for eveything that I have while in school full time. I have so many other obigations and passions. How can I attempt to break the bank and neglect everything else important in life just to look good for some guy (who will probably try and find something bad about me anyway).
That’s just lunicy.
Don’t get me wrong. I am no fem-dom and certainly not gay. I don’t sport my facial and body hair bacause I don’t sport my face and body!!! I’m not a whore and I don’t have low self-esteem–nevermore!!
Of all the “products” I’ve tried, the only product that seems to work is Billy Joel’s song, “My Life.”
I’m with Jessica Eliane…this is the body I’ve been given and the life I have to lead. If you are a hirsuit woman out there, please realize that (and I don’t mean this to be cliche) everyone, everyone has got shit they don’t like about themselves. EVERYONE (including the men who say they don’t like us)! The ones with the WORST shit, spend their time noticing your minor shit and want to shame you into thinking like them — pitful, lonely, and unworthy.
They will have to wake up and shave their own shit. You just be your best self, live a good and giving life, be your most beautiful, and let the hair grow where it may.
Having the adoration of some human beings with penises does not make you any less lovely. There are BILLIONS of people in this world. So a few don’t like you the way you are. Like my mom used to say, “Fuck ‘em and feed ‘em duck do-doo soup!”
You go, girl.
The mad obsession people have with ridding the human body of any purported imperfection is crazy. Live your life as you see fit. You must live with yourself and sounds as if you’re doing a good job of it.
I’m with Ric of Los Angeles. Body hair on a woman is highly erotic and natural. Some of us here in the U.S. remember when women generally didn’t shave above the knee or shave forearms. Not sure when the “mannequin” look first started to become the fashion.
As for lower leg hair, I can take it or leave it. Hairy women’s armpits turn me on. Much of the comment I read from women seems to indicate that many of them shave to please a guy. Some don’t seem to believe there are men out there who appreciate a hairy woman. I say..bring it on..or more appropriately, leave it on.
I don’t understand how men became SO accustomed to disliking women leg hair. I read a few things that said it started out with an add for short skirts or something, and now it’s considered normal. All the porn (that I’ve seen) has hairless women. Is there anyone out there that escaped the affects of marketing? DOES ANYONE STILL THINK BODY HAIR IS GOOD? Maybe a few foreigners. But FORGET the Americans.