#female body hair

[fullofbeannies]

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[wordwovencackle]

Time To Grow Out Body Hair!

A Post On Stopping Body Hair Removal!

As the temperatures are slowly rising above freezing temperatures, you may be thinking about spring and summertime. A lot may also be considering whether to pick shaving/waxing up again after a winter of leaving it be; you may also just continue shaving/waxing as you've always done.

But, for the girls and women considering stopping shaving/waxing, I hope to share some tips and pros that may help you decide! (Additions are always welcome!)

If you're worried about sensory issues, let me reassure you. The uncomfortable part about growing out your hair on your armpits, arms, legs, pubic hair, eyebrows, facial hair, happy trail, between the cheeks, et cetera, is overwhelmingly the stubble stage! This can be uncomfortable at first, and I recommend moisturising a bit more than usual to help soften them out. Body oils, baby oils and conditioners can also work miracles! Wear comfortable clothing, keep up your hygiene, and power through. Before you know it, you will pass the stubble stage and your hair will be softer.

Even if your hair is coarse, it will be better than stubble. Let it settle for a while. Give it time. It's why I made this post so early in the year, after all! Additionally, is the temporary discomfort of stubble enough reason for you to not think about the other (in my case more severe) sensory issues of:

Ingrown hairs! Razor/Irritation bumps! Dry skin! The pain of waxing! The accidental cuts from the razor! In my opinion, none of these are better than the temporary discomfort of stubble.

Did you grow out your body hair and it is too long and becomes inconvenient, or it gets tangled, consider trimming instead of shaving/waxing. That way you still will not suffer the issues mentioned above!

Worried about hygiene? Women report both sometimes sweating more as well as less when stopping to shave. Of course, this also depends on hormone levels, the food you eat, how much water you drink, or your health, all of which are susceptible to change all the time. Sometimes I sweat more and then a few months I sweat less. Switching up hygiene products, drinking more, eating less processed foods/drinking less processed drinks, switching up deodorants or finding alternatives, or wearing different materials alone can be extremely beneficial.

Bottom line: keep washing regularly and body hair will not be an issue. You don't have to perform any other actions besides thoroughly washing your body as usual to maintain the hygiene of your body hair. All in all, considering you are removing the entire practice of body hair removal, it requires actually less upkeep than you may be used to.

Indeed, especially pubic hair is actually better for you. It acts as a protective buffer and reduces friction during sex. The protective buffer shields you from dirt, any harmful bacteria or pathogens and other undesirable microorganisms. The hair also creates a natural oil (like on your scalp) that helps prevent bacteria from reproducing. Pubic hair also helps prevent infections such as yeast infections, STIs and UTIs! As with the above, if you wash it regularly like the rest of your body, it is in no way unhygienic! The information that pubic hair is unhygienic is a myth to ensure you keep buying hair removal products.

That's right, though shaving was occasionally practiced in the past, modern shaving is largely encouraged by and part of making a profit! Circa the 1920s, it became slowly socially acceptable for women to show their legs and armpits during some social situations. Companies like Gillette decided to broaden their target audience of men shaving facial hair. Advertisements began to claim being hairy is inherently unhygienic. This is false. I encourage not wasting your money (it's expensive!) on extensively removing your body hair based on a scam.

Also, consider all the waste of plastic in the majority of waxing strips and razors that you have to frequently replace! If you ever needed a product to keep out of your shopping list for the sake of the environment, consider waxing strips and razors!

Feel more confident in your skin! Never have I felt more confident than seeing my natural body and loving it just the way it is.

I also assure you, in real life (so no don't look at social media posts,) very few care. If at all, you may have more backlash from your family (usually also out of shame or worry that you will be ostracised) than strangers. I've had two curious double-takes perhaps in an entire year. Those strangers that would potentially judge you, do you want them in your life? No? Then don't worry about them. And in time, your confidence will grow. The odd comment on your appearance won't even bother you anymore. This is a good thing!

Still feeling shame or worry? Check if your shame has become debilitating. So many women are dreading to see a doctor because they're scared of being judged for their body hair. As such, they have sometimes waited too long. Medical complications, all because of shame for their natural bodies! This should horrify you and should help you think about whether your shame of body hair has gone too far. It truly is time to stop letting indoctrinated shame endanger your life!

What if you are alright with all of the above but you are still uncomfortable and you just don't like the look of body hair? Or, what if you are worried a (potential) romantic partner won't like it, I am going to ask you, and you need to think about it deeply and answer to yourself: why would (subjective/ever-changing) beauty(standards) be more important to you than your health and comfort?

When you shave and/or wax and you say you "do it for yourself," how true is that? What if you do it for yourself, what does it do for you and why? Do as you will, but why perform an action you are unsure of why you do it at all?

Radical acceptance and being comfortable with your body is subversive. You will always be pressured to change, to dress up, to remove, to fit into something, to shape something up, to slim down, to be feminine, to be desirable, et cetera, it's spiralling and unhealthy! Instead, choosing comfort and acceptance as a woman is revolutionary.

I've had friends come up to me that they've always considered quitting shaving but never dared until they saw someone who doesn't. They told me they'd found the guts to give it a try themselves too. So many want to but don't know where or how to begin, some of us have to be the first!

#anti shaving #body positive #body positivity #body neutrality #feminism #female body hair #body hair #anti body hair removal #body hair removal #radical feminism #radical feminist #feminist

[balkanradfem]

So I am gonna write about a tmi, icky gross problem regarding armpit hair, so if you don't feel like reading about that, it's time to scoot, skip this post, scroll on, skedaddle.

I know you're all still reading because you want to know about gross icky disgusting problems, and this is your own fault. So let me tell you a story!

I've had a life where paying attention to my physical health was the least of my issues, and if a problem was ignorable, you can be sure I ignored it. This proved to be a poor method of staying healthy, and now I am in fact, not doing so well. But that's not the point, the point is, I'm now paying much more attention to my body, and able to notice if something is up!

So one of the things I've ignored, was the condition of my armpit hair, which I shaved for only a very brief period of my life, and was happy to continue growing it out. I've noticed after a while, that there is some white coating on some of my armpit hair, and I thought, you know, I need to wash that stuff out! I need to scrub that area more, obviously it's still dirty somehow. However I would discover that no matter with what I scrub or wash, the white dots and coating on the hair would remain there. So it was not dirt, I was forced to conclude.

I looked it up, and the internet informed me, it is in fact, a bacterial infection. Shocked and baffled, I read some articles that recommended going to the doctor, getting antibiotics, shaving it off, using products to stop sweating, washing constantly not to get it again. It was utter defeat, after being so happy about my armpit hair being normal and all grown, to have to shave it again because of a stupid goddamn infection. They said the infection hits women and m*n the same, but women experience it less because they most commonly shave it off. Like firstly I don't believe you that most women do that, secondly you didn't mention the skin infections women can get from shaving.

But anyway, I had to shave it off in humiliation, and then I grew it back again, and I was more careful this time! To wash more carefully, to not allow myself to be sweaty, to dry off my armpits before putting clothes on, but after a while, it slipped my mind. I get anxiety sweating, I work a physical job, and I am a gardener. I get sweaty! And I like being sweaty and it doesn't feel bad and I would like, to not get an infection. But six months later the infection came back and now I'm brooding about it. I don't wanna shave it off again! I miss not knowing it was a legitimate problem, and I mean it's not like it's actively causing problems, just makes the smell of my armpit slightly stronger but I am okay with my own smell so the only thing that does bother me is knowing there is some bacteria in there having a field day while I'm enjoying my gross sticky life of being a physical worker.

So I am writing this to find out: is this a problem other women growing armpit hair have faced? Have you all known what it is? Did anyone find a solution that isn't a topical antibiotic and living a life where you don't ever get sweaty? If it turns out I'm the number one icky woman out there, so be it, I can be the leader. But I've never heard anyone talk about this, and I don't want to go to a doctor and hear 'why don't you just shave it off like all normal women' because I have the right to my armpit hair dammit, and I want it to be for my own enjoyment and comfort and the bacteria need to find some other job.

If this is a common problem then people have found a way to deal with it centuries ago, and I bet any witch back in time would know exactly what to do, but sadly I can't go and ask one, or read about their findings, because we know why. Please help me crowdsurf this information.

#female body hair #armpit hair #armpit hair infection #tmi post #womens health #womens body hair

[butch-reidentified]

For anyone who needs to hear this: being attractive ("to men" is the part that isn't said out loud) is NEVER going to make you happy! Truly, never. Being "hot" is not going to fill your soul. Trends and standards will always change, and rapidly. Your pleasure in it will always be superficial. You will drain away your money at Ulta, at the salon, at the cosmetic surgery center, at the clothing and accessory stores that are popular this month. You will endure blistered feet and razor burn and soreness and itchy clothing that sticks to your skin every time you walk outside and it's above 70 degrees. You will not be able to live in the moment because you are too busy checking the mirror, pinching your natural healthy fat, wondering if they can see this or that "flaw" on your face or body, touching up your hair, reapplying makeup, adjusting your clothing so it sits *just so* and doesn't reveal that there is a real, natural, human body underneath.

None of this will bring you happiness. Being desired, even just blending in, is a pitiful reward for so high a price - financially, mentally, spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Have you ever added up the money you spend on your appearance each year? Each month? How many wonderful outings and hobbies could you have if you set aside the eyeliner and the brand name lingerie and the razor and the 17 skincare products you have (but no man does). How much mental and emotional energy and freedom might you have if you never thought about your appearance in daily life, as unconcerned with how "hot" you are as when you were a child? How much more present would you be with those you love when you are entirely focused on existing with them rather than whether they have noticed the way your stomach looks in this outfit?

This is among the most liberating feelings I have ever known, if not the most. I had spent so many years brainwashed and trained like a show animal to groom myself into a beautiful doll. Whether I told myself it was for approval or just "for myself" made no difference on the impact it had. I was conditioned to see a ghoulish alien creature in the mirror when the layers of makeup and flattering, constricting, merciless clothes were stripped away, my own face - my FACE, the first thing that tells a stranger who I am, the face only I have - a "problem" to be constantly tinkered with and never solved. I could not, would not dare to conceive of abandoning these costly crutches. Certainly, there is nothing worse than ugly, is there not? Surely I will fade away into an unlovable irrelevant pariah if I go outside with my natural body hair in shorts on a 95 degree day, forsaking makeup to permit my skin to breathe.

For a long time, I was not even conscious that I felt that way. I was unaware of my fears, telling myself comforting lies about my choices being utterly my own and uninformed by the world in which I live. It was hard to accept that these were lies; as I said, they brought comfort. It was harder still to choose to leave my home bare-faced, hairy, and comfortably dressed at whatever size my body likes to naturally be. It was not something I felt like I wanted to do "for myself" as my beauty rituals had allegedly become, but something I had come to realize I had to try for the sake of my health, self love, and well-being in all areas.

Much like adapting to drastic life changes to cut short the progress of a disease, these changes were initially painful and undesirable, but they were entirely worth it. Some time later, my face became me, a vessel for communication and expression of my emotions, rather than a canvas on which to stuff full my pores and suffocate my skin. My body shape and its fat became neutral things I tend not to consider at all unless choosing a size in clothing - no more of this constant distress and self-monitoring. My comfort has increased as I abandon the chafing and tight straps and sucking in my stomach and tweezing and shaving in favor of comfortable, flexible, weather appropriate clothes and the body and face born to me. My truly debilitating hatred of my nose evaporated entirely over time; where I used to cling to my covid masks and contouring and consulting with plastic surgeons, I now have only my sniffer. It does what it's meant to well enough, and that's as much as it crosses my mind.

Body positivity and loving how you look may feel like an impossible ideal. Part of that is social conditioning, but another part is that it's an illogical goal. Did you love your body and face as a child? Or were you simply blissfully unaware of the idea that how you are shaped might matter? In all my years of playing the beauty game to varying degrees, I had tried body positivity/love several times, typically with no result at all, but occasionally even with a backfire. Body neutrality was much more realistic and sensible, and more attainable as well. I believe it to be healthier. There will always be a problem if we are committing much of our focus, attention, and energy to our appearances, whether it be to hate them or adore them. It is by definition self-centered.

On the other hand, body neutrality has delivered me the freedom to do whatever fun activity I want without worrying about whether I'll mess up my hair or makeup, or whether I'm wearing the right shoes or if my clothing is too constricting or revealing for said activity. If I should want to climb a tall and beautiful tree, I will not be concerned with an upskirt peeker or what to do with my heels. Most importantly, though, I have noticed drastic changes in my life I did not expect. I have become much more even-keeled and internally at peace overall, not just about my looks. I have noticed myself engaging much less with my phone and much, much, much more with the people around me. I am far more focused on and attentive to others, more equipped to be present in shared moments. I am never looking for a stopping point in a poignant conversation so I can excuse myself to the restroom and adjust my concealer.

My favorite part is that I am so deeply connected with myself in a way I had believed impossible. I am entirely me - not a mind in a body, but a mind and body as one. I do not wear my body like a suit which must be measured and altered; I am my body, and my body is me, and I am suddenly in love with being vividly alive.

#body neutrality #natural body #female body hair #feminism #women's liberation #self acceptance #mine #long post #radblr #1k

[innominaterifter]

The thought experiment with Siberian.

I like thought experiments, they allow me to look at some things in a new way, to see the blind spots in my view of the world, or notice the existence of stereotypes or automatic ideas about something which I haven't really actively thought about, haven't thought about my perception, my attitude, my vision of it.

Thought experiments allow us to highlight these automatic filled gaps in the picture of the world. This allows us to think about how much the designation on our map of reality is caused by our desire to understand what reality really looks like and how much of this is automatic filling in of blind spots.

So let's move on to the experiment itself. I warn you, there will be spoilers.

Imagine the Siberian from "Worm" in as much detail as you can. Imagine what she looks like. Imagine how she moves. Imagine her next to you.

Do not read further until you visualize it well enough.

Ready? Let's continue.

Now answer yourself two questions.

First, how tall is Siberian in your imagination?

I will answer as I imagined her, but I bet that many of you will have a similar answer.

In my imagination, she is 6′ 1″ - 6′ 5″, something like this.

In canon, she is 5'8".

Question two: Does she have any hair on her body other than hair on her head, eyebrows, and eyelashes?

Do you imagine her with hair in her groin and armpits, hair on her legs, or no hair there at all?

I can speak for myself, I automatically imagined her completely without body hair.

Including because in all the pictures that I saw her is depicted exactly like this. But I think it's not just about the drawings (moreover, the authors of the drawings also took from somewhere the idea of a completely hairless body of Siberian). I think there is a much more general and deep stereotype at work here about the conventional image of the female body.

With height, the mechanism is similar but affects slightly different planes.

Yes, of course, Siberia is a projection and a product of the imagination of its creator, who grew up in the same paradigm and in the same ideas of convention for women's bodies (but nevertheless, in the canon there is no specific indication of this question. If there is, please tell me, I could have missed it).

While I’m thinking about what other options for depicting Siberian can I imagine, besides those that we see in the pictures. There are a couple of ideas of what the vegetation on the body of Siberian might look like and a few ideas of what its coloring might look like that matches the description in the canon but does not copy the arts that I saw.

I don’t know if anyone is interested in my thoughts on this topic, but I wanted to share my thoughts about the character. When creating cosplay, I use the most in-depth approach, although to many, it seems nerdy.

#siberian #siberian worm #worm #parahumans #wildbow #wormblr #worm web serial #cosplay #slaughterhouse nine #feminism #female body hair

[fakeboitherottengirl]

Honestly I love my facial hair because it not only confuses the fuck out of people which gender I am but also throws them a curveball of being unable to tell what my birth sex is so im Schrodinger's trans

#female body hair #PCOS #intersex #gender critical

[realmermaid333]

Hunger Games Book Things That Should Have Been in the Movie!!!

There is sadly a lot of stuff that should have been in The Hunger Games movies but wasn’t and it makes me salty so I am going to make a list lol. Some of the stuff, I understand was likely taken out due to time crunches, but other things there’s simply no excuse except it’s hollywood *eyeroll*

1. Rue and Katniss scenes- they cut out some of their bonding in the movies which took a lot of the tragedy out of her death. Not that it wasn’t super sad in the movies, but we knew more about Rue in the book and we saw her and Katniss bond for much longer. Which in turn made her death so much sadder since we also knew how much Rue reminded Katniss of Prim, how innocent and young Rue was, and how badly Katniss wanted her to win if she didn’t. 

2. Peeta and Katniss Cave Scenes- the scenes were in there, but they were kinda weird tbh. Like they made Peeta’s crush on Katniss seem kind of creepy and it was not at all in the book. Also, Peeta was lightening the mood and being funny in the books, and was not in the movie. Both Katniss and Peeta just seemed slightly out of character in the cave scenes.

3. Peeta’s missing leg!!!!- In the books, Peeta loses his leg from health complications from the blood poisoning in the arena! He had a metal prosthetic leg, he was disabled. They took that out of the movie which is disheartening considering the lovely disability representation that could have been there. They could have hired an actor with a missing leg, gave him a realistic prosthetic and hid it under his pants for the beginning of the movie, then had him wear a metal prosthetic for the rest of the series after Peeta’s injury, that would have been amazing! The least they could have done was have Josh be missing a leg! Also, Peeta’s lack of disability made his struggling in the Quarter Quell make less sense, the reason why Peeta was lagging behind a little and needing more assistance was because the boy was missing a leg! I will forever we upset about this lost opportunity due to hollywood’s bullshit. 

4. The adorable plant book scene and Peeta carrying Katniss to bed- this was wholesome content that made their relationship so much sweeter and really showed how Katniss did care for Peeta and really did like him. I’m not sure why they took this out, I guess it was a time related thing, but tbh the movies should’ve simply been longer because they butchered the books to make them fit into 2 hours, it is annoying af (there’s been loads of super long like 3 hour movies, THG could have been one of them)! Also the cute rooftop picnic scene when they were in the training center, and them cuddling all night afterwards. No wonder tons of people who only watched the movies think Peeta and Katniss’s relationship is lowkey boring, they took out all of their cute bonding moments outside of the arena!!

5. District 2 scene- The part where Gale and Katniss are together in District 2, they makeout and Gale realizes that Katniss is barely paying attention to him and isn’t that into it. This part was crucial I think! It showed that Katniss did not actually like Gale romantically. It explained why they did not end up together. And this isn’t just a THG movie thing, but I really wish this scene was used to explain Gale and Katniss not ending up together instead of Gale being involved in Prim’s death. This could have very easily been the turning point, where they decided to be platonic. I would have loved it if Gale and Katniss would’ve stayed best friends, maybe Gale would find someone else to pursue romantically and him and Katniss could move on. I think they deserved that. 

6. Johanna and Katniss bonding- I really wish we got more of this in the movies, they were roommates in the book! That would have been really easy to throw into the movies to show that they were friends. I like to imagine the two of them stayed in touch after the war :) 

7. Peeta and Katniss’s burn scars- There is no excuse for this! This is just hollywood being stupid and thinking they couldn’t put burn scars on Katniss and Peeta because they’d “no longer be cute” or whatever (they did the same thing with Katniss’s body hair, she was clean shaven even while in District 12, which is inaccurate as Katniss hated having her body hair removed). It would not have been hard to include the scars, they’d be more faint too by the end considering that they had all the fancy Capitol technology used on them. All they had to do was use some makeup to add scars to Katniss’s neck, Peeta’s forehead, and both of their hands. Katniss’ hair was shorter after the bombing  because quite a bit of it was melted off, they could have put Jennifer in a choppy, shorter wig to show that. It also could have been a cool way to measure time passing by when they went back to District 12. Katniss’s hair could have grown out throughout the ending scenes to signify the months that passed because the last 10 mins or so of Mockingjay part 2 is super confusing lol. Like Peeta comes back, then all of the sudden Annie sends a photo of her and her like 5-month-old-looking baby just chilling lmao. 

8. Haymitch parenting Katniss- As we know, Katniss’s shitty mom leaves her at the end, but in the books it is more clear that Haymitch ends up being the adult in her life that parents her. He makes sure she is eating, taking her medicine, he checks on her to make sure she is okay, he talked to her and gave her information even when she wasn’t responding. He helped Plutarch get her pardoned for killing Coin as he knew exactly why she did it. He went back to District 12 with her to take care of her, and he ended up comforting her a lot in the series (they did have this in the movies too), they even argued like a father and daughter in the books lmao. 

9. Katniss’s mental health issues and grief- So many scenes of Katniss’s grief are removed from the movies. She was so emotionally traumatized that she lost the ability to speak for a long time, many nights she’d wake up screaming, and she would wonder the mansion aimlessly and end up in odd little hiding places. She was trying to kill herself after she killed Coin, the poor girl was in absolute mental anguish and I do not think that was accurately shown in the films. She did not brush her hair, change her clothes, or shower for a long time when she went back to District 12. When her and Peeta reunite, she looked sickly and dirty--- enough so that Peeta was sad when he saw her. But, of course, in the film she looked fresh out of a shampoo ad, with flowing, long, not-matted hair. 

#katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #everlark #the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #thg #disability representation #female body hair #thg books #books to read #book recommendations #send asks #hollywood sucks #haymitch abernathy #district 12 #katniss x peeta

[womeninfictionandirl]

Photography by Ben Hopper

#Ben hopper #photography #portrait #photo #photography portrait #female portrait #female body hair #women #woman #art #artwork #irl women/girls #misc

[jellowyelly]

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#Female Positivity #Female Body Hair #Not Mine

[jadwiga-abremovic]

The rank, boring, insipid discourse about "bIoLogIicAL hAIry MaLeS" invading woman's lands.

I'd much rather live on a woman's land with trans girls than on women's land where my body hair somehow becomes a problem again due to paranoid, bigoted people swallowing alt right ideas about "biological sex" without a hint of criticism . Imagine being so easily conned while still believing yourself to be a radical, let alone revolutionary? Embarrassing.

#anti terf #terfs dni #marxist feminism #proletarian feminism #hirsuite #actually intersex #hyperandrogenism #female body hair #body posititivity

[toaster-toads]

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Can we just normalize body hair on women already…?

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Like I mean, seriously y'all... I don't want to spend four hours in the shower every two nights shaving every part of my body to appear smooth and hairless like society sells us to be… ;-;

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˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ I AM A WOMAN. ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥

I HAVE NORMAL BODY HAIR, ON MY ARMS, FACE, TORSO, LEGS, UNDERARMS, BACK, BUTT, WOMAN PARTS, FINGERS, AND EVEN MY TOES!

SOME OF IT IS DARK AND COURSE, SOME IS LIGHT AND FINE, SOME MIGHT JUST BE PEACH FUZZ…

💖 IT’S NORMAL. I’M BEAUTUFUL. 💖

☆‧͙⁺˚*･ IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE YOU GO HUG ON A RAW CHICKEN IF THAT’S WHAT YOU LIKE, YOU PIECE OF UNREALISTIC TRASH… ☆‧͙⁺˚*･

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(Just needed that off my chest...)

#women body hair #normalize women body hair #female body hair #female #fake female standards #fake society standards #unrealistic standards #unrealistic women standards #unrealistic female standards

[secretly-sapphic-confessions]

Conversation I had with my 6 year old cousin:

*context: I have never shaved my arms and never will

Him (sitting in my lap): you have hairy arms. Lots of hair

me: yeah, they’re cool aren’t they

Him: Mummy doesn’t have hairy arms

me: no, some people do and some people don’t, it’s their choice. Do you think it would be better if I didn’t have any and took it off?

Him: nooooo they’re soft *starts stroking them* I like it

God he’s so cute, I wish he was my son

But anyway, I wanted to share because it’s my catalyst for a mini rant about body hair positivity, and he may be six but his comment really made me feel much better about myself! So a major reminder that body hair image, positive or negative, is just socialisation. You’re not unclean or dirty for having it, and god you are not any less feminine for keeping it. I will always be proud of the way my guy is growing up, and its in situations like these this I’m so greatful for it, but I know others may not have the same positive/affirming experiences I do.

The stigma around female body hair is real. For anyone that’s struggling with their body hair, whether you choose shave it or don’t, remember it’s YOUR body, YOUR choice, and all that matters is how you feel about it. Hairless? Great! Hairy? Cool! To very cringefully or tastefully quote Dr Seuss, those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. It’s literally your business and only yours. Like why are you mad I still have it? Did you want some to knit with?

I personally think the natural female body is the 8th wonder of the world.

There’s so much to say on this topic, but in short, this post is just a gentle reminder that if you want it: keep it. Facial, back, hands, stomach, chest, arms, armpits, toes, legs, nose, eyebrows. This is what makes you beautiful（╹◡╹）♡ And bonus points! It keeps you warm!!! How cool is that?

Also remember my cousin thinks it’s nice, so there’s that to. He’s cheering you on at the sidelines

#body postivity #body hair positivity #female body positivity #female body hair #female empowerment #female body hair positivity #female beauty #female body perfection #female body image

[fuzzfem]

#radfem #radblr #female body hair

[balkanradfem]

I want to thank my armpit hair for making sure my underarms are protected, never irritated from chafing against my sides, and for making sure my sweat has a way to slowly perspire instead of drenching down my body.

I want to thank my leg hair for keeping my legs cozy and protected from all kinds of little bugs that try to crawl up them when I’m in nature. You also protect me from the direct sun and my legs love having that.

I want to thank my pubic hair for keeping my private parts well protected, shielded from view or impact, keeping me cozy and protected from chafing and irritation.

My thigh hair as well, thank you for making sure my thighs don’t chafe!

And finally, to my stomach hair, thank you for being in a visible and easily available spot where I can play and fiddle with you when I’m bored. We are all so cozy and happy together.

#body hair positivity #female body hair #radical feminism #feminism #radfem #body hair #armpit hair #leg hair #purposes of body hair #cozy existence

[butch-reidentified]

Thank you for being kind towards women who shave obvious facial hair. I'm very fair-skinned but brunette with facial hair, so it's very dark and there's a lot of it (my doctor thinks I might have a hormonal imbalance or maybe a brain tumor that causes the hair to grow). So I shave it off because otherwise people stare and it makes me self-conscious but I feel like I'm betraying my sisters when I shave so it's just bad feelings all around.

i don't think you're betraying anyone. actually i don't like that take in general & i usually make a point to speak up when i see that. fighting for liberation for all woman means fighting for the women you consider "traitors" too, you can't have it both ways. i don't think there's anything productive that can come from using that language tbqh.

but when it comes to facial hair on women, i think it's fair to say that we are allowed to take baby steps. fighting to increase acceptance of female leg hair and armpit hair is already a massive challenge. i think it's okay to focus on that right now and compromise on facial hair because at the end of the day, we ARE working to break stereotypes and free women, but we are also human beings trying to survive ~in a society~ yk? i think we need to keep that in mind and meet women where they're at to an extent

i have a lot of success with this. i've brought a LOT of women to radfeminism or radfem-aligned views IRL, and just about all of them were very "normie" when we met. none of them were antifeminist or anything, but certainly a majority of them still strongly believed in or at least complied with gender. some still do even though they know it's harmful, and i love them just the same bc i know they're trying at their own pace and nothing other than understanding and gentle yet tough love pushing them to challenge themselves for their and all women's good, is going to actually have an impact. i know this from experience, i know this from how much success my wife and i have as the type of feminists who literally will not shut up about it irl & make a point to at least expose all the women in our lives to a new way of seeing things - to data (á la "invisible women"), to material analysis, class perspective, etc.

we cannot compromise on things like letting men into women's spaces, yet when i use the word compromise, many women assume this is what i'm implying. no, i'm talking about compromising on individual women's actions. if she is doing 15 awesome things for other women but she hasn't yet found the courage to completely stop shaving her legs, are we rly gonna focus ONLY on the legs?

#mine #ask #anon ask #anon #female body hair

[anevileyeball]

Some artwork about a dream I had where my dad made a metaphor about bullying, a vent about the perception of body hair on women, and a pride month pic showing my journey on becoming an ally breaking free from the bigotry in my environment.

#female body hair #body postivity #lgbtq positivity #straight ally #kindness #normalize body hair #body hair isn’t just for men #artists on tumblr