Quote:
Originally Posted by jackhammer
I get reactions now as a male having a shaved head so for a female to have a shaved head is even more 'odd' to look upon.
I'm not saying it's right at all. I have been called a fascist and a Nazi in my time just because I shave my head so for a woman to have a look that is so diametrically opposed to the classic 'female look' freaks people out.
I talked to a woman once at my place of work who wore a head scarf due to chemotherapy she was having (hence bald) and I managed to convince her that there is nothing wrong whatsoever in looking that way and a few days later she came back without the headscarf which made me so happy for her and she herself said that she felt liberated. Good for her.
It's easy to judge people on first impressions and we all do it but I have found that the people worth knowing are those who make a mockery of that inbuilt initial prejudice.
|
<3
That's wonderful Lee.
Quote:
Originally Posted by tore
About hair and stuff, that people should accept hair although the norm is shaving ..
I wonder what guys here would think if we turned the scenario around a bit. Let's say you meet a guy who you can tell shaves his legs. Perhaps he wears shorts and you just happen to notice his baby butt calves. Would it influence your opinion of this person in a positive or a negative way? Or would you not care at all?
I'll just be honest and say that for me, a guy shaving his legs would be pretty bad  |
As anyone can guess I'm not a fan of hairiness. I'm not gonna judge a guy who doesn't shave his legs but wears shorts and sandals for example, but I think it's ugly as all f*ck and there's nothing wrong with thinking something is unappealing to look at, it's just about how you treat people because of it.
You can have a great friend in somebody without wanting to f*ck them.
But yeah if a guy did like you said I'd have no problem with it, I think it looks better than not shaving at all.
Quote:
Originally Posted by tore
Well, bodybuilders, swimmers and the like have an excuse perhaps Aside from possibly being a bit prejudiced, I think us guys should enjoy that we can get by fine in society without make up, cream in our hair and shaved legs .. at least in Norway. There's a whole industry who would love all that to become the trend norm so they could make cash from selling beauty products to men - and they're pushing it.
In the place I'm from, guys my age and up seem pretty resistant to this sort of stuff. I don't know many guys who really spend much time on their looks, f.ex by shaving legs and using male beauty products, but it seems some of that is becoming the standard with teenagers. |
There's nothing wrong with wanting to look a certain way. Even if it's deemed unnatural.
The thing is people deem headshaving on women unnatural even though it's not any more unnatural than men doing it. I of course disagree with Vegan about something being wrong just because it isn't natural.
Getting tattoos are not natural, or getting piercings, or putting makeup on your face or cutting your hair or shaving your beard but these are all choices people have. We're not cavemen, we shouldn't be confined to certain things because of how nature intended. What sets us apart from other animals is that we have free will, we don't have to do things purely on instinct.
But unless you ARE Grizley Adams living in the wilderness, it's best that you shut your mouth about things being unnatural because we all do something unnatural.
I can go on (and I have) about why I find bald women more attractive than women with hair but I don't even have to justify it, it's just my preference, we all have prerences of our own. Instead of thinking it's such a f*cking bummer that people aren't exactly the same we should embrace the fact that we're all different.
It's corny to say but that's how it is, if we all embraced ourselves and what makes us unique from others instead of constantly comparing things and defining them by what's normal and what isn't we'd all be better off.