As a girl who studies her fair share of history (I just wrote four huge history papers this week, sorry I haven't been around much!), I like to really look into the roots of everything.
Lately I've been thinking about shaving, and I've really been wondering how I feel about it.
The origins of women shaving is widely debated.
Some debated reasons:
Some debated reasons:
- Women were made targets for marketing razors.
- Shaving was used to make more of a differentiation between men and women. (um, hello. why can't men just have longer eyelashes than women and just be content with that?)
- Shaving was mainly practiced by prostitutes because their clients wanted "youthful" concubines (aka, little girls). Later crossing over into the mainstream.
Now.
I don't really care where the origins come from in this case.
I am not a little girl, I am a woman. Do I really want to be involved with a practice that was originated by pervy men being turned on by the soft legs of little girls?
UM, NO.
I don't know how I feel about this. I don't like the origins, however, I don't like wearing skirts unless I have shaved legs either because I feel straight up unattractive to myself.
What the heck, social expectations and gender roles?
You are sending me on one heck of a hairy rollercoaster!
You suck!
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One of my really good friends decided to dress as a girl for halloween. He went all out. He wore a bra, he put on lipstick, and yes he shaved his legs. He respects women more for enduring this kind of thing. Gender roles do go too far. They have forever. I always tell Jess that I don't care if she shaves her legs or not, but she feels grimy when she doesn't.
My best friend Reanna doesn't shave at all. She also braids her armpit hair.
i think part of self-discovery is finding that which helps us define for ourselves what it means to be feminine, or masculine
I haven't shaved my legs or pits in almost six years, and I fucking love it. The issue I have is with pubic areas. As a queer woman I have spent many a time in a woman's nether region so I myself like to keep it trimmed and neat just so I don't suffocate my lovers. But I have had multiple past lovers (mostly born males) that have asked me to shave my entire pubic region. Talk about perverted. It's downright disgusting and depressing, yet all too common.
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