Women who don't shave their legs, what reactions have you received? : AskWomen

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There's a certain sense of personal upkeep to some of it - like most people don't like wearing super-wrinkly clothes with moth-holes in them and badly dinged up glasses, even though none of those things are functional problems that affect them or others. I'm pretty hairy at this point.

Woman's Hour presenter has admitted that she has not shaved her armpits for almost 50 years, saying she is proudly and defiantly hirsute. I felt it encouraged more odorous sweating too. This mindset, obviously not exactly this, could have followed us to the modern day. Clearly this girl is with an awesome guy who actually prefers her in her natural state.

Fitness Blogger Reveals What Happens When You Don’t Shave Legs And Pits For 1 Year To Promote Natural Beauty

Everything is a study these days, including what millennial women do with their armpit hair. And companies are feeling the hit too — sales of hair removal products dropped five percent from 2015-16. A few things are behind the trend, posits Roshida Khanom, associate director in beauty and personal care at Mintel, as quoted in The Telegraph. Nobody loves fucking up the patriarchy and gender expectations like queer women and folks, and yet because queer and trans women and non-binary folks are pretty much always underrepresented in scientific research it is a safe bet that this study primarily reflects cis straight women, or at least is interpreted that way. I read four articles about this study and none of them mention queer folks. As a genderqueer human who stopped shaving my armpits mostly because I literally could not be bothered and was deeply inspired by the generations of dykes that came before me, I feel pretty strongly about the importance of pit hair in the queer community. What do you do with your pit hair. How does that choice connect with your gender, your other identities, cultural or women who don t shave expectations. Gloria Gloria, Organizer: For me the decision to grow out my armpit hair has less to do with my gender identity and more with the decolonization of my intersectional identities as a queer mestiza. Yes, my bodily hair absolutely makes me feel super feminine and super sexy, but I think that came after years of work to decolonize beauty and femme standards. Anna, Educator: I stopped shaving my armpits in college probably mostly out of laziness. My pits were another story — very thick, very visible, especially in the stubble stage. Even when I did shave I found myself keeping my arms down or specifically not wearing sleeveless clothes. I had the fortune of being in a community and social circle in college that was very queer and full of the ethos of self-love, so it was very easy to just leave behind this ritual that only brought me weird bumps and not very much more love for my body. If my pits were not really going to look pristine most of the time anyway, why bother. We often shave to help make sure people will see us as women rather than any other reason. So I think trans women are more likely to shave for that reason. I stopped shaving my armpits somewhat on a whim, out of curiosity to see what my adult hair was like. And then it became really, really important to me. I realized that my level of gender comfort skyrocketed up when I found the space to be gender noncomforming and femme at the same time. Growing out my body hair as a reclamation of my body and my gender felt like a totally different kind of transition. It was a transition from unhappiness and alienation with my body to comfort and refuge a much more expansive and hopefully accurate description of the billions of ways that trans folks transition in the world. And it allowed me to engage with my body in a new way — to ask my trans body what it wanted, how it wanted to function, how it wanted to move through the world, and to actually listen to the response. Anyway, I fucking love my body hair — every last piece of it. As it grew out and I began to question my gender, I found that having dark, longer hair gave me a masculine flair that I enjoyed and felt positive about. Sometimes I might trim or tame it if it feels completely out of pocket, but for the most part, I love it. What do you do with your pits. Is that connected to your gender presentation, sexuality, or other identities. Audrey is a writer, a Texan and women who don t shave sometimes-heretical Presbyterian. They write about bisexuality, gender, religion, politics, music and a whole lot of feelings at Autostraddle and wherever fine words are sold. They have a dog named after Alison Bechdel. Audrey has written 137 articles for us.

I want to get to the point of where that anxiety isn't there at all. In 2005, when Veet tried to make a foray into China, they experienced sluggish sales. In the summer, for her own appearance she shaves but in the winter, really doesn't bother me. My partner won't go swimming without shaving her legs. They pretty much went red faced and apologized. Please, tell me you weren't serious in writing this. Pretty much my thighs and calves barely grow any hair at all, and the hair that does grow on my shins can't be shaved because if I run a razor over the skin condition that is also there, I will bleed like crazy and it would hurt a lot. I think he didn't want my hairy legs to be made public. So you can relate to this girl who refuses to shave because it causes her such misery: ingrown hairs and rashes. That will depend on our comfort, time budget, and what's important to the man we love.