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Originally Posted by Dayvan Cowboy
I'm screen capping and sending to booboo.
ololololololol
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you know what's nice about being a ginger? your arm hair is blond. NO NEED TO SHAVE YAY
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DAYVAN, no need to shave EVER. But it is noteworthy that people feel they 'need' to. Why?
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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon
High fives to those of you that get the joke.
And to the rest of you, what's with your obsessions with forearms, you freaks?
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I get the 'joke' but whether it really is one depends on booboo's reaction, I'd say.
The topic *is* interesting to me, though, because just this last week while in orchestra I started looking at women's and men's forearm hair after I noticed that some of the women appeared to have no hair at ALL on their forearms. Are they shaving their forearms, I wondered???
Then yesterday I saw one of the women with her preschool daughter, and I could see that the *daughter* had arm hair...just like little girls and boys both usually have leg hair. So then I was left wondering whether the little girl inherited her dad's arm hair...or whether her mom shaves hers off.
I couldn't find much on the Web about the percentage of women in the U.S. who shave their arm hair, but the trend is mentioned and some sources suggested 15%. My guess is that the 'hairlessness' norm is just continuing to increase, boosted by peer pressure and fear of social rejection, and so the number of forearm shavers will rise. I am waiting with great expectation and amusement for when eyebrows disappear.
Apparently, shaving armhair is really popular among Japanese women:
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Japanese women shave their forearms! « Mrsnobukuni’s Weblog
Women have a mutual unspoken pact not to reveal the truth of our beauty endeavours to men, but I break this pact for the sake of sharing insights into the Japanese people!
When I first came to Japan, I noticed how smooth Japanese people’s skins looked and observed with envy how their arms were completely hairless. About six months later, I realised that it wasn’t a biological blessing. While walking through Roppongi, two girls stopped my friends and I to complete a survey. The survey was about the beauty regimes of women. The question that grabbed all of our attention was “Do you shave the hair on your arms?” We all automatically, in our global naivety, squirmed and collectively said “oh no, that’s disgusting”. The interviewers got very defensive and it was then that it dawned on me that some Japanese women shave their arms. Eight years later I can say that, in my experience, a lot, if not the majority, of Japanese women do this!
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