Whats wrong with hairy legs

[rvpopeye]

I had a GF that shaved everything except her head and informed me if i did too she'd show me how much she liked it......best deal I ever made !

 

[steamjam1]

I personally don't really care about girls with hairy legs. As long as she doesn't smell funny.

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

Doesn't matter if you have shaved legs, hairy legs, shaved chest, hairy chest, beard, no beard, hairy armpits, shaved armpits and the same for any other action hygiene related or not there will be people that like it, don't like and don't care either way. Can't please everyone but will always please someone.

 

[ggwoman]

Exactly. Why does who and what we are make us not feel good?

But I do feel good. I hope you feel good. Everyone just needs to do what feels good for them. Because I don't care what you or they do. You do it for you, no one else. I do it for me. No one else. I don't care what others think especially about something so minor as looks or presentation. I only care that what I think is good for me and not harming others. This is healthy. It's called independent thinking and being able to accept others for who and what they are. Good social skills for such a big, wild, wonderful, and crazy mixed up world. Glad to be alive in interesting times.

 

[cherterr]

I'm just still trying to figure out the correlation between being hairy, not wearing deodorant and saving the rain forest. The first two don't seem to affect the third but they always go together.

Perhaps it has to do with the INGREDIENT list on all those chemicals most non 'tree huggers' use on their bodies??  Read a few and you may see the 'connection' ; Shampoo, deodorant, soap, cream rinse, even toothpaste. 

When one get free of the chemicals, the next obvious step is perhaps to become more free of other impositions of society to do with personal care.  (Notice I did not say 'hygiene' because it is completely possible to be Very Hygenic without using all the crud made my 'the man'!

So you are THEN aware and more caring about nature.  Wa La!  A hairy, 'tree hugger' is born!

 

[ZoNiE]

This is a weird thread... :dodgy:

 

[TMG51]

Perhaps it has to do with the INGREDIENT list on all those chemicals most non 'tree huggers' use on their bodies??  Read a few and you may see the 'connection' ; Shampoo, deodorant, soap, cream rinse, even toothpaste. 

When one get free of the chemicals, the next obvious step is perhaps to become more free of other impositions of society to do with personal care.  (Notice I did not say 'hygiene' because it is completely possible to be Very Hygenic without using all the crud made my 'the man'!

So you are THEN aware and more caring about nature.  Wa La!  A hairy, 'tree hugger' is born!

Hmmm nope, I still shave. Good to know that iPads are all natural though, I've never seen a hairy legged tree hugging college girl without one. People will keep doing what makes them feel good! I take issue only with pretense of higher moral ground.

 

[gcal]

Hmmm nope, I still shave. Good to know that iPads are all natural though, I've never seen a hairy legged tree hugging college girl without one. People will keep doing what makes them feel good! I take issue only with pretense of higher moral ground.

I don't know about a moral high ground, but I know that there seems to be a deep dissatisfaction in most women with how they look, even if the features they hate look good to everyone else. Back in the day, I had rich, full, healthy, beautiful waist long hair. But I was a brunnette, and blond was the thing to be. I ruined my my hair and turned it into straw trying to be something I was not. I never was able to grow that lush hair back. I worked with young black woman before I retired who had a short, perky haircut that looked quite attractive on her. But she wanted European hair, and got a weave. Think about wearing a thick, hot hat on your head for 2 months without ever taking it off, day or night, sweating in Florida heat and humidity. She looked unnatural and she actually started to stink. She hated her own body so much that she was willing to stink in order to look like someone else. I think both of us accepting beauty ideals from outside of ourselves that made us hate our natural selves were just sad and pathetic.

 

[jimindenver]

I forgot, I do shave something besides my face. MY EARS

I don't know when or how but somehow my hair line receded off my fore head and with no other place to go, ended up on my ears. I have to stay up on it or it sounds crunchy when I lay my head down. It's pretty noticeable after a few days and starts looking furry after a week.

 

[TMG51]

I don't know about a moral high ground, but I know that there seems to be a deep dissatisfaction in most women with how they look, even if the features they hate look good to everyone else. Back in the day, I had rich, full, healthy, beautiful waist long hair. But I was a brunnette, and blond was the thing to be. I ruined my my hair and turned it into straw trying to be something I was not. I never was able to grow that lush hair back. I worked with young black woman before I retired who had a short, perky haircut that looked quite attractive on her. But she wanted European hair, and got a weave. Think about wearing a thick, hot hat on your head for 2 months without ever taking it off, day or night, sweating in Florida heat and humidity. She looked unnatural and she actually started to stink. She hated her own body so much that she was willing to stink in order to look like someone else. I think both of us accepting beauty ideals from outside of ourselves that made us hate our natural selves were just sad and pathetic.

I agree! Incidentally I prefer brunettes. I also use an old fashioned double edge razor and the only waste from my shaving is a bit of recyclable steel.

I'm not telling anyone what to do but I'd rather have a thing or two smooth, my bald head included.

 

[Txjaybird]

But I do feel good. I hope you feel good. Everyone just needs to do what feels good for them.  Because I don't care what you or they do. You do it for you, no one else. I do it for me. No one else. I don't care what others think especially about something so minor as looks or presentation.  I only care that what I think is good for me and not harming others.  This is healthy. It's called independent thinking and being able to accept others for who and what they are. Good social skills for such a big, wild, wonderful, and crazy mixed up world.  Glad to be alive in interesting times.

Thank You, I feel the same however you said it way better than I would have. 

 I also wonder why some are so judgemental about body piercings and skin art or  blue hair etc.??  To me just like the hair/no hair question, it is a matter of  both personal choice and expression, like clothing.....some days I'm in overhauls and some days in long sweeping skirts,  what ever mood strikes me or activity is planned for the day.

As my dearly departed husband often said about many things " I reckon it's good if you like it "   

   Jewellann & the Queen

 

[ggwoman]

As my dearly departed husband often said about many things " I reckon it's good if you like it "

Your husband was wise. Sorry he is gone. (((((Jewellann)))))

As far as body piercings, tatts and hair, I have seen some outstanding artwork done while in Hawaii. Almost everyone has tatts and they are just works of art. I don't want one, but I sure admire them on others. I think personal self expression is extremely important and I have found that people with the most outrageous, different, even scary look(s) are the sweetest, kindest and most wonderful individuals you can imagine. Go figure. I admire people that are true to themselves, and even if I wouldn't personally want to do what they do, there is still room for respect and admiration of our differences

 

[IanC]

We all do have a natural odor and saying that not all are offensive. My PERSONAL OPINION is anatomy differences differentiate our perception of odor.

We are all immune to our own body odors - we're around them all day. All our odors for that matter. Probably no one gets grossed out sitting on the john, but following someone ELSE into the john can make you turn around and reconsider whether what you were planning was that necessary.

Asking someone else if you have B.O. isn't likely to get a truthful answer.

That being said, I think we are way too sensitive to smell. The personal products industry has made anything but body parts that smell like a spring meadow seem un-natural. Perfume was invented to mask body odor back in the day when bathing was rarely ,if ever, done. I can't imagine what those lavish French ballrooms must have smelled like - packed with people in heavy garments who hadn't bathed in years and  doused with perfume. I read an article in a French magazine that said many French men still don't wash their hair their entire lives - just keep it short and use the natural oil like Brillcream.

 

[wagoneer]

I have 2 cuties with smell-o-meter post menopausal senses that remind me to bath ha every Wednesday morning a low flow sit down and meditate while washing shower for 20 minutes like warm rain healing my heart and limbs.

 

[WanderLoveJosh]

You'd think if women weren't suppose to have any hair then it wouldn't grow naturally.

Women don't shave because they're "suppose" too. They shave because some guy found he could make more profit from razors and such by convincing women it's "gross". It's funny, if all women had let their hair grow naturally always none of the women that consider it gross now would feel that way.. That mind set is only because society has burned this ******** image into them. The same way they have with making women feel gross and insecure without makeup.

 

[wagoneer]

Amen to that, some look like they are actually wearing a mask. Looks like we created a monster/mens room, of coarce women are welcome always

 

[IanC]

Women don't shave because they're "suppose" too. They shave because some guy found he could make more profit from razors and such by convincing women it's "gross".

There is some evidence that ancient Egyptian royalty , men and women, shaved all their hair , including head and eyebrows, then painted them on. That might have been for lice prevention too, but shaving and makeup predates the commercial cosmetic industry .

 

[WriterMs]

I can see where the mobile lifestyle makes shaving (whatever parts) more difficult, as most of us don't have unlimited water for soaking or rinsing.

I'm thinking of going back to those "buff pads" as no shaving cream and heavy rinse is necessary.

A friend of mine swears by the professional laser hair removal series he had -- it's permanent so no waxing or shaving owwies in very tender places.

 

[ArtW]

If it were affordable I'd do that...if I had the correct coloration (laser doesn't work well on light haired, fair skinned people) the times I've shaved, I've liked it...untill it starts growing back, arrgghh!

 

[wagoneer]

OK I am a guy, but whatever not shaving is not even an option?? Having said that I have been in theater and drag in the 70's LOVED IT and had a lot of admirers, just saying, think about it, love ye