• Plum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    Body hair is deeply stigmatized. Bodies and bodily functions are stigmatized.

    It’s the same reason why sanitary pad commercials use clear blue liquid for absorptive demonstrations and not body temperature strawberry preserves. Or heaven forfend actual uterine lining…

    Smiling happy women reclining in a bath, shaving off foam to reveal glossy perfect legs, is shorthand for the reality of what actually happens.

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    The culture around women shaving is so dumb. So dumb, in fact, I don’t shave anything other than my armpits. And I only shave my armpits because I don’t like how the hair feels when sweat accumulates.

    If I ever get a gf and she doesn’t like my fuzzy legs and magnificent bush, then she ain’t the girl for me.

    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 days ago

      I use clippers to shorten my pits and bush because my pit hair pulls in weird ways and my bush will mat with blood clots and it helps trap less smells in both but other than that yeah there’s no reason. I once had an A&P professor who went on a mini rant one class about how "the leg and arm hairs are for detecting the movement of fleas ticks and other parasites and how could women be asked to give up such protection? "

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      If I ever get a gf and she doesn’t like my fuzzy legs and magnificent bush

      On the other hand, shaved bush has essentially made the pubic lice an endangered species.

      (This is not to say that you’re not magnificent)

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      I actually preferred shaved armpits on any gender. But I’m also lazy AF so I only trim mine like 3 times a year and shave them if I’m going real fancy.