The Forearm Thread

[VEGANGELICA]

Originally Posted by s_k

Well there are some area's of women's bodies I rather see shaved.
I should add though that I don't feel like they HAVE to in general, but I think it would be nice if they did it because I liked it, in the same way that, as long as it isn't my beard, I wouldn't mind shaving whatever she wants for a girl. So far no requests, but I wouldn't mind. It's more about preference than about expectance (is that a word? You know what I mean, I guess).

Eitherway, I don't know why girls would have to shave their arms. I never ran into a girl that has male-like-hairy-arms. It seems a bit unneccesary.

Yes, s_k, in the best of all possible worlds, people do things because they like making their partner happy, and if they shave they do so just because of a 'preference' rather than an 'expectance'...and that *is* a word!

In my experience, though, shaving...at least for women...is usually all about 'expectance' and avoidance of negative feelings and reactions if they *don't* shave.

I feel your comment that 'I never ran into a girl that has male-like-hairy arms' such that you don't know why girls would have to shave their arms, shows what is behind much of women's shaving: women feel they are ugly if they have hair that 'looks like a man's'...and they are MADE to feel ugly if they do.

And why? After all, if women only 'have' to shave if they have 'male-like-hairy' bodies, then the fact that most women dipilate huge areas of their bodies suggests women have body hair that is very similar to men's. If their hair didn't look like men's, then they wouldn't feel they 'needed' to shave, right?

Why all this hate for mammalian hair? Are people uncomfortable with being animals? Look at the comments from this thread:

Originally Posted by crash_override

I'm also not a fan of female arm hair.

Originally Posted by vonnybelle

Chick guitarist + arm hair = baaaad photos.

Originally Posted by Dirty

Most of you already know my thoughts about body hair on women by now. Girls with dark hair on their arms... Gross.

Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

I'm hairy. Except for on my back. For some reason I'm okay with a hairy chest, arms, and legs. It seems natural. But on the back? That's just disgusting. I'm happy I don't have any there. I'd questioned shaving my chest/stomach because every summer when I get my six pack back AGAIN, I always think it just looks weird hairy.

Originally Posted by theuglyorgan

About the body hair, I am one hairy mother****er, and I am just getting worse. It's in my genes, you can barely see my dad's chest through all his hair. I recently started growing back hair too, which is pretty gross.

Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

I obsessively shave my body hair. My arms never have so much as stubble. I hate the way it feels.