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Originally Posted by boo boo
On this issue I'm just challenging a lot of the ideas people have about hair and female baldness. It's not a campaign against hair, just a celebration of an alternative look that doesn't get proper respect. And lets not forget that some women don't have a choice, women with alopecia are made to feel like deformed freaks and the media's attitude doesn't help.
Hypocritically you'll see a lot of ads and promos for charities like Locks of Love (which is fraud btw) which sends a rather mixed message, people act like giving alopecians wigs is like curing some kind of f*cking disease, yes it helps them with their self esteem but why is that? Because people are jerks who will mock someone even if they have a medical condition. Many people with alopecia are otherwise healthy individuals, it's not a life threatening condition (though it's sometimes caused by something that is), with the worst side effect being how people react to it.
And when I watch crappy talk shows like Tyra Banks give alopecians wigs and "sexy" makeovers instead of encouraging them to be themselves, I find it pretty sickening. If more women sported the bald look, alopecians wouldn't stand out so much and they wouldn't have to wear a wig if they didn't want to. That's not an attempt at a guilt trip or anything. But it's yet another reason I love women who embrace the look because it becomes empowering for every bald woman.
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See, boo boo, we are similar in one respect because here you are being critical of how people tell women they need to have head hair to be beautiful...yet that is exactly what I'm doing (but in reverse) with body hair issues: I want people to not have to feel they must *get rid* of their body hair to be "acceptable" and feel good about themselves. One reason I don't shave is to empower women who keep their hair and don't want to feel bad about themselves.
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I don't oppose your choice Vegan, only the attitude you have with other women who choose the other option. I believe you can make a statement out of your hairy legs without trying to guilt trip women into making the same choice as you and telling them their choice is a wrong choice.
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I'm not trying to guilt-trip them; I'm trying to point out that shaving implicitly tells other women that there is something wrong with them, just like Locks of Love implicitly tells women that being bald is something to cover up and be ashamed of. Or like Tyra Banks implicitly tells women with alopecea that they aren't okay as they are by offering to make them "more beautiful" with wigs and make-up.
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Besides I have a better suggestion. I've told you about rule 34 right? I have a suggestion for you, visit a website called rabbitsreviews.com, look up the table of contents and click on "hairy". You will be intrigued by the results. 
Well you don't have to get into porn but if you want to find people who can appreciate your hairy gams, becoming a hairy fetish model could be the way to go. 
Something to do part time when you're not busy doing scientist stuff lol.
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I would never desire to be a hairy fetish model, boo boo. I feel it would be too humiliating to intentionally put myself on display for the general public as if I were trying to win their approval or be seen as attractive by strangers like women often do. That's one aspect of porn that I don't like: it is people prostrating themselves to try to be appealing to others.
If I ever become a hairy fetish model, it will only occur as a side-effect of photos I take to celebrate my hair (yeay, hair!) in a non-sexual way. I actually don't want to find people who appreciate my hairy gams...I want to find people who treat me like a human first, with gender issues secondary. Although becoming a "Hairy Scientist" porn star would be amusing!