repost from tumblr. huge tmi, mostly about pubic hair.

[apiphile]

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[wolfy_writing]

I hate that kind of shit. Hurting all women? I'm a woman, and I'm sure as hell not hurt by what you do with your body hair. In fact, my personal preferences in terms of pubic hair are pretty much the opposite of yours, and you're still not hurting me by liking different things or making different choices. You know why? The hair is not what's important. Having the freedom to do what you want with your own body is important, and that encompasses both personal grooming and deciding what you're comfortable doing sexually.

And "You haven't made the exact same choice as me? That's so sad! You poor thing, you must be so damaged to not want to do everything my way!" is always creepy as fuck.

[apiphile]

Yeah the pity thing really grates on me because it's so false. They're not sad at all, it's just another fucking weapon against people who might disagree, and an underhanded one at that.

[klgaffney]

Oh for ffs why can't tumbler ever pour itself a big assed steaming cup of sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up? it needs to post pretty pictures and never, ever talk.

personally, i love bush, and i won't shave mine. What I hate is the hair in my pits in summer, when it's sticky and hot and I am wearing either short sleeves or camisoles or wife-beaters and I can feel the hair sticking to me in a slimy matted mess, so I shave that shit off. What the fuck that has to do with what other women do, or the patriarchy or whatever the fuck I DO NOT EVEN KNOW. But I'm pretty sure that everyone that feels the need to politicize goddamned fucking body hair preferences can just take a giant fucking leap into shrieking eel infested waters.

[apiphile]

it really does need to learn the magical art of not commentating on my crotch.

Oh yes, with you on the pit hair too! And yet leg hair is fine.

But I'm pretty sure that everyone that feels the need to politicize goddamned fucking body hair preferences can just take a giant fucking leap into shrieking eel infested waters.

Pretty much! HOW DARE YOU HAVE TO MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR BODY IN ORDER TO FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH IT... unless you're trans. :D etc.

[dragged_up]

people on the internet throw around "paedophile" when they're talking about adults fucking adults way too often and it's really revolting. (although i may be overly sensitive about this bc i look about twelve + trim my pubes rly short because I feel the same about them as you do about yours!)

[apiphile]

It's nice of them to throw things from their ivory towers of adulthood and acceptable sexuality and so on but they really can fuck off. Also, high-five of not feeling "empowered" by having a snake pit over your vagina, guess you must be doing it for MALE ATTENTION...

... oh wait.

[dragged_up]

I'm not even doing it for female attention frankly, given my completely nonexistent sex life, pubes just make managing periods REALLY UNPLEASANT. :C although of course according to jezebel-style "feminists" I do everything for male attention - obviously the times I have pigtails it's because I'm infantilising myself for teh mens, not because playing with my hair is a good distraction/de-stressor. etc.

[apiphile]

Mais oui! It doesn't matter what your preferences are, everything is for male attention, and even if they concede that you might be, I dunno, NOT INTERESTED IN MEN, it's still *for* someone else. Because women's bodies always are.

[channonyarrow]

There is no universe where what *I* do (for any given value of I, including you, and they, and that person over there) is what all people should do. It would be a much better world if we all recognised that my preference =/= your rule.

The best we can ever do is find people whose preferences on our make-or-break conditions matches up to our own, and I have to say, if you have an absolute and my absolute is the opposite of your absolute, there is absolutely no point in the two of us bumping uglies for any extended length of time ... even less if those absolutes are longer-term than merely ladygardens and the manicuring thereof.

[apiphile]

We'd have people shutting the fuck up about abortion, for a start, which would make the world a lot quieter.

Exactly... and... if someone isn't even considering getting up in your uglies and giving them a smush, why on EARTH would they care about it?

[howifall]

Holy fuck, Tumblr is cool for nice pictures and squee but why on earth does it seem to aggregate so many brainless morons?

Getting into rows about personal preferences is bad enough, but then the whole 'it's sad' thing is really the rotten cherry on the shitty cake. What the fuck moral high ground does anyone get to take on body hair preferences ???

[apiphile]

That's the nature of the internet, I guess. Lots of people who don't really want to be doing a thing they SHOULD be doing, so they sit on the internet and squabble.

The pity thing is fucking annoying because it's just a cheap, lazy form of argument and a disingenuous one at that.