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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
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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Yes but I'm not trying to make women who don't shave their heads feel bad.
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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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That
is guilt tripping them, if a woman shaves her legs like many here do you're holding them responsible for the low self esteem of others. This is just unfair, that's like telling me I have to shave my head because it makes guys with alopecia or male patern baldness feel bad and that's just stupid.
I believe in free choice. I don't believe people should be forced to do/not do things out of fashion, but I also don't believe people should be forced to do/not do things out of some percieved moral responsibility. That is what religion does and your attitude isn't much friendler IMO.
I oppose moral absolutism pretty strongly.
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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!
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I was joking sheesh, I know you wouldn't be into that.
I think in regards to porn, more and more people are being more openminded about it. I know people have the viewpoint that putting your naked body on display turns you into an object and that it's enslaving yourself blah blah. I understand that viewpoint somewhat.
I just see it differently and I don't see sexuality as being enslaving at all, unless it's something committed by force, but in porn nobody is being forced to do anything, they might pretend but it's just pretend. I think sexuality is a great thing. I'm not really
that into porn but I no longer feel guilty when I invest some interest in it. I don't see people selling their bodies for money as being any more dehumanizing as artists selling their work for money, we're all striving to give away a part of us in some way or another.
We're all attention whores we just go about it in different ways. I whore
myself by going on about topics like this.
