Posted on 11/24/2017 12:39:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Thanks to our society’s narrow standards of beauty, women are expected to have no body hair whatsoever (except, of course, on their head). But after being fed up with how much time it took to shave, one fitness blogger decided to throw away her razor and embrace her natural beauty instead.
In a YouTube video that has now been viewed more than 460,000 times, Morgan Mikenas revealed that she hasn’t shaved her legs or armpits in over a year!
“The purpose of this video is not to shame people who do shave,” Mikenas wrote in the video's info section. “I just want to speak on how it’s helped me become more comfortable within myself, and maybe inspire others to do something that makes them feel confident.”
In the 12-minute clip, Mikenas revealed that at around age 11 or 12, she was bullied for having hairy legs at gym class. She then went home crying and asked her mother to teach her how to shave.
“That’s when it all began,” she said.
Mikenas — who initially stopped shaving because “it just took so much time” — then went on to call out North American society’s ridiculous beauty standards.
After she started letting her body hair grow out last year, Mikenas recalled working in childcare where she took kids swimming once a week. Unfortunately, the children’s reactions to her body hair appalled her.
“I got these little kids who are in kindergarten and first grade harassing me and telling me, ‘Oh my god, you look like a man. You didn’t shave!’” she said. “This is the reaction I’m getting from little kids. What does that say if that is how these kids are being taught?”
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Well, one positive side effect, if she forgoes using those things for a year, would be that she ought to easily be able to clear a path through the Black Friday Shopping crowds, and select whatever she wants to buy, with no interference from the violent throngs.
“maybe women started shaving because hemlines rose above the ankle not because of advertising?”
I’d agree to cause and effect, but I suspect hemlines went up because of shaving, and not the other way ‘round. Either way, both are good things.
This just isn’t true at all. My wife is Japanese I know for a fact that they have hair in the places you listed. Just like everyone else - some women have more than others.
Mixed up FR headlines on the printing room floor:
Michelle Obama just explained how to be successful in one sentence By Not Shaving For One Year
Perhaps that was part of the curse
“If she don’t shave Laz won’t hit it..”
Oh, yes, he will! Laz has techniques for handling hairy wimminz!
“If women are not supposed to have body hair, why did God give it to us?”
He gave humans body oils, too, but stink is stink.
Even the women on Naked and Afraid shaved while they were in the jungle or rain forest for 21 days.
Weedwhacker?
Those legs are just gross.
Too late. (Comment #51)
Ya did, dang you.
Yes they do as another poster pointed out but I know one Asain woman who does not need to use any form of underarm deodorant, no matter how hot/smelly everyone else is.
As a man, I am not a fan of my own body hair, in fact I trim, and I shave my armpits even. I Think underarm hair on a man looks almost as nasty as on a woman.
Daily bathing drys out the skin. Next we will see and smell hairy women.
Sick bastid.............
My son plays hockey. At least he showers after three periods.
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