bikini season

[fallen_arazil]

So summer is on the way, and my sixty-something year old mother has been making noises that it's all well and good to have hairy legs in winter, but now that shorts season is coming, my legs look gross and I should shave them.

There's a part of me that really does think my hairy legs are gross, but that's exactly the reason I can't shave them,

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[psychedk]

Ooh, it's an interesting paradox. I have to first say I'm not a feminist at all, so these kind of issues always leave me puzzled. But I do have many friends who are, and in so many other ways I don't fit into conventional boxes, nor do I wish to. So I can sympathize. I've spend a lot of time finding out what felt true to me, in many regards, and some will be close to conclusions drawn by the large majority, some will be very far from them.

I don't think of it as conforming. After all, there are actually people who like natural hair, and again other people who don't care either way. I don't shave my legs in the winter either, because my husband don't care enough to ask me to do it, and I'm generally lazy, but I like that others don't look at my legs and think "geez". Call it conforming, call it vanity. It's probably more a question of suffering from normal fear of what people might think of you (and only a handful of people can really be free of that); it's all semantics to me, because in the end I'll do whatever makes me comfortable. If that happens to please a large portion of people, then so be it...