Posted on 10/07/2017 5:51:19 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Model receives rape and death threats for showing off her hairy legs in an Adidas ad - and is told she looks like a 'disgusting monkey'
A Swedish model has revealed how she's been subjected to death and rape threats after posing for an Adidas ad campaign with unshaven legs.
Arvida Bystrom, 26, a model and photographer, took to Instagram to reveal how she'd received a torrent of abuse after the campaign was released in which she reveals her hairy calves underneath a pair of pink ankle socks.
'Me being such an abled, white, cis body with its only nonconforming feature being a little leg hair,' she said. 'Literally I've been getting rape threats in my DM inbox.
'I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to not posses all these privileges and try to exist in the world. Sending love and try to remember that not everybody has the same experiences being a person.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Pretty face, but her legs look like mine, so unless she hits the Nair... no dice.
yuck. i think they are trying to make her a more manly, just as they try to make men girlish.
for the record....shave the legs and pits if you are female. IMHO. I guess if your partner likes it, throw out the Lady Bic.
All hair colors lighten in the sun....assuming it’s not dyed
I am from a family of blondes with lots of Scandinavian blood and I never saw hair on the legs that dark except for those who weren’t real blondes
Didn’t check out any other locations. That’s just weird
And then there was the Monkee’s episode with Julie Newmar.
wow
Definitely a gender-bending statement.
No excuse, however, for death threats.
Don’t care about hairy bodies.
Disrespecting my flag is what ticks me off because, of what it stands for.
GTHNFL.
Hideous.
In Europe the women don't even shave their mustaches so this reaction is odd.
The reasons I ask is "Swedish model, UK newspaper."
I have a lifelong history of finding the word Wombat hysterically funny.
You really ramped it up this time.
:D
It’s a weird world.
Went out with an ol girl once whose leg hair grew so fast it was unbelievable. She’d shave her legs before going to bed and by morning there would be a heavy growth of stubble. She dulled my razor every time she came over.
It was like dating a werewolf from those old horror movies. I
quit dating her when her ex-husband threatened me with a French bread knife at her apartment and then started a fight in a popular disco after she kept chasing after me when they reconciled.
I am a natural blond, almost white haired as a kid.
“A woman who has dark skin will get burned, and a light-skinned woman with blond hair might not have any significant hair removal.”
Talk about a first world problem.
Hope somebody is working on it, though.
“Advertising, movies, etc. have changed what we humans consider attractive.”
In the case of Western Civ that may be true, but there have been cultures that had none of those things but still favored selective removal of hair.
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