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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Many years ago my wife did that and forgot to tell me. She didn't even think of just replacing the cartridge. I took a small chunk out of my upper lip.
American Indians usually don’t have hair on their extremities, either.
You know that guy ain’t right, right?
:-D
I worked in Norway for a few years. I did not mind. At least it was light blonde.
Nah. I got her beat by a country mile.
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Works ok for blondes, but not so much for brunettes (ugh!)
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That is why we shave, use soap, deodorant, makeup, bras and hair dye.
These people are beyond tiresome.
Did you see Humpty Dumpty outside Naples?
She sat on a wall...any sailor who went to Naples (and there were a lot) likely heard of her...:)
My wife is Korean and doesn't have to shave her legs because no hair grows on them.
She actually thinks white women are beautiful, but she and her friends will say privately that a lot of American white women just have zero morals, and the promiscuity of alley cats.
I was remarking the other day, I very much appreciate living in a country where personal hygiene is both possible and desirable.
I LIKE the fact that I can be on a plane, a bus, an elevator, or in a crowded store, and don’t have to deal with the smell of people, as you do in some countries.
I have been there. It isn’t pleasant. Sure you get used to it, but you also get used to back pain and a hangnail. Sure, if a woman lives in a country where shaving her legs is difficult because she has to hike the water three miles uphill by a pole slung over her shoulders, I will give her a pass even if I don’t find it attractive.
As a man, I LIKE women who are clean. I LIKE women who take the time to make sure they don’t smell and are presentable. I LIKE women who go out of their way to make themselves attractive by Western standards, not Middle Eastern, African, or whatever standards.
As a man, I do the same. I stay clean. I groom when and where I can. If I am camping or something like that, I still take the time to get some water and wash whatever part of my body I can even if the water is ice cold or I am.
This is just BS to me. I would say to that woman, fine. Do what you want, don’t shave or bathe or whatever, but don’t piss on my head and tell me it is raining out. And don’t expect me to be nonjudgmental.
I have heard of her, never saw her. Is that the actual Humpty Dumpty?
It is (sent to me via a reliable source) though I have since been told that there are stories of a “Humpty Dumpty” dating back to 1945...
So, there are likely multiples. Well, I guess a gal’s gotta make a living...
Oh no you didn’t!
Might be able to start a fad and earn millions by braiding her armpit and leg hair into stylish tasteful dreadlocks.
I, too, like his hair.
LOL, I just watched that movie again for the first time in about 25 years the other night, LMAO at that part!
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