In Sweden there was recently a huge uproar on Facebook over a snapshot of a woman on TV with unshaved armpits. Someone posted the picture of the woman on Facebook and hundreds of people posted mean comments about how gross she was. A group called “take back the hair” was started as a protest and women posted photos of their unshaved armpits and were met with the same taunt, from mostly men, who called them disgusting ugly feminist cunts and other not so nice things.
I myself shave my legs and armpits but I have no problem with people not doing so. It’s up to them and for them to look as nature created us all isn’t disgusting, it’s natural. I think they’re brave. More brave than I am because even though I think it’s a stupid ideal I still shave because I’ve been brainwashed by society to thinking I look better that way.
What bugs me the most about the whole debate about whether women should shave or not is all the men who don’t shave their legs and armpits but think women should. Hello double standards! If you as a man don’t shave your legs and armpits, then why the hell is a woman gross is she don’t? It’s stupid since men actually are the hairy ones! If the hair itself is what’s gross then men’s hair should be just as “disgusting” as women’s hair, or rather, even more disgusting since they have more of it!
Of course the beauty ideals is to blame but I find it very sad that so many people can’t see how ridiculous those ideals are. Just because the beauty ideals says that women should look a certain way that doesn’t mean that the ideal has to be followed or that those who don’t follow it are disgusting.
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