Zette, you are hilarious! Made me laugh and made a point without getting all pissed off and uppity like I did. Will you be my friend?
-L
OK, like this thread needs any more people to throw in their already exhausted opinions…
I for one find the smooth skin of a shaved/waxed girl to be incredibly sexy and desirable. I don’t think that it is/should be a necessary part of every female person’s life, but I also shouldn’t be called a pervert for having some preference in the matter.
I don’t think that this has to do with conformity to society’s standards, at least not for me. I just happen to like the way it looks, although I am aware that is probably because of the culture I was raised in.
I can’t say I really understand why people get so rabidly upset about this, except that maybe it represents the larger idea of gender roles, i.e. women are there to look good for the men.
I have girl friends who go both ways, and I find smooth more attractive. No social statement, no perversion, just a good old-fashioned matter of taste.
Does he like shaven women because they look look girls? Enquiring minds may not really want to know.
This just all comes down to personal preference. Call me shallow but I never could have married anyone who had tufts of armpit hair coming out of her sundress. Actually call us one shallow couple, my wife says that she never would have married me either had I tufts of nose hair growing out of my nostrils.
For those of you who are religious, this was God’s final joke on kicking the happy couple out of Eden: loads of hair where you don’t want them: ears, nostrils, brow, armpit, backs, mouth, legs and no hair in the one place that you really want it, your head.
It has everything to do with “conforming to society’s standards” - why can’t you see that? It is so very obvious!
You have been brainwashed! Lets face it, shaving any part of any body is not natural. If women weren’t suppose to have hair on certain places then they damn well wouldn’t grow hair there! You were taught to like what you like in this instance but you can’t even admit it.
Maybe so, but I don’t give a rat’s whiskers if society standards had been neatly coiffed nose hairs and the longer the better. I don’t like nose hairs and wouldn’t have liked them if I grew up on a desert island.
I find that proliferating nostril hairs tickle me and I can see them at bottom of my range of vision. It looks and feels like a fly has settled under my nose. As I breath in and out it looks like it is waving it’s antennas about. Yuck.
Major Feelgud, I didn’t say that you were brainwashed. In case you couldn’t tell I was only speaking to Marxboy (hence the quote of his remarks). I would never make the generalization that all people who felt like this were brainwashed.
The same thought came to me as well Muffin. Ye gads I don’t want to know.
StrayKat is female…
Theios says,“In reality, it’s just a little light brown tuft of underarm hair. Big deal.” That’s great for WASPs and Asians but those of us who are of Greek, Italian, Middle Eastern or Slavic descent don’t have ‘litte tufts.’ We’re the ones who grow masses of pit hair and sprout leg hair long enough to part and comb. What about women with facial hair? You’d keep that too?
Shaving, feeling sleek, that’s sexy to me. And shaving everything makes sex even better.
If you feel better shaving it off, more power to ya! That’s why I stated in a previous post that I would like to see women shave or not shave based on how they felt about it. I guess I could have stated that a little better. How about “Shave if you want to, but don’t feel that you have to.”
If your hair bugs you and you feel sexy being shaven. Fine by me. I don’t see my little turf of hair as a problem, and it would be great if I didn’t get that initial “funny look” during the summer when folks see it.
I guess this applies to all hair. Having known a woman with quite a bit of facial hair, I can say that I quickly “got over” the fact that she did nothing with it. Maybe I’m just one of those weird people who just don’t give a damn?
FTR, I seem to be a hairy peasant woman from the knee down (german side of the family?), so my leg hair is very, very noticable. The rest of my body hair is pretty thin (native american maybe?), so I lucked out. Just thought I’d share. 
Purd Werfect says;
Interesting theory. Freudian slip, perhaps?
One thing I’ve never done in any of my posts is comment that I might be a good catch for any reason. I’m probably not. Ask my ex. She’ll assure you of that.
The main thing that I am guilty of is being honest with myself, unlike so many who outwardly conform to what is ‘correct’ and ‘proper’ and then feel guilty about having ‘evil’ thoughts that are actually human.
This stuff of accepting everyone for whom they are doesn’t work a whole heck of a lot in real life. Oh, certainly, there are some people who can do it wonderfully, but many who cannot. After years of feeling guilty because
I could not totally conform to what the current standard of politically correct happened to be, I stopped trying and felt better.
Oh, I don’t go out of my way to insult, avoid or harm people I dislike with my opinions, nor force them on the unwilling, but I’m not stupid enough to agree with all of the nicey-nice platitudes and sugary crap that we get fed for general correctness.
I’ve my flaws. I understand them. I’m cool with that. I’m not the only one by far who dislikes hairy armpits on woman. There’s a few million of us. It is called freedom of opinion. That is why certain women turn me on and not others. I intensely dislike the current anti-rape clothing turned out by fashion designers, though I understand the mentality, which turns the beautiful form and figure of a woman into a baggy, shapeless blob with feet.
I dislike bald women. I love the color, length, texture and look of a woman’s hair and find a bald dome repulsive. There again, that is my opinion. I dislike the half-bald look many Black women are starting to affect, but not because I’m racist, but because I think it makes them look to mannish.
These are my personal opinions. I have a whole darn bunch you’d probably find offensive, but they’re mine and I don’t feel guilty about them anymore.
Like, I don’t like homosexuals or lesbians, but neither will I make trouble for them and I’ll defend their rights as voraciously as I defend my own because I understand the whole situation. I just don’t like it, but they can’t help it. Hey, not everyone like 'em either, but at least I don’t make trouble.
You must be insecure over my security. I’m happy with me and it took me a long time to get so.
I don’t like the looks of many people, but who likes the way everyone looks? Heck, if any of you saw my picture, privately many would chuckle and laugh, some be repulsed, others attracted, some impressed. That’s life.
At least I’m open about things.
I like looking at pretty teenaged girls, though I’m not a pervert, and I dislike hairy armpits on women. I also happen to know that quite a few mature women get steamed up over looking at teen boys, but know enough not to touch. Check with your shrinks, you’ll find that such urges are called normal, reguardless of what the current media blast wants us to believe.
Get over yourself.
Oh, yeah. Did I mention that I often don’t have a whole lot of tact? So, if you get offended by the way I phrase things, that’s your problem.
Cripes! What a bunch of over sensitive people here.
I have to say that this thread bothers me on a number of counts.
1a. I don’t expect anyone to be stinky.
1b. What anyone does with their body hair is their own business.
1c. You are more attracted to “delicate” “girls.” Neither girls nor women are supposed to be more delicate or act more delicate for your benefit.
1d. If I nevereverever shaved my armpits and legs again I would not resemble a guy.
Of course. And teenage girls, as well as “delicate” women everywhere, should be dressing in order to please you. Even if you do subscribe to this belief, I would think with Ms. Spears et al you’d have enough eyecandy to not need to rant about the girls on your local news program.
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Hi, Opal!
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I shave. Sometimes. Sometimes I shave lots. If I don’t shave, it’s not to ambush my lover.
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5. Arrgh! I can’t stand the double-edged blade of being female. Shaving your legs and underarm hair is neccessary, but plucking your eyebrows is silly. Makeup is necessary, but not too much and and only “natural” colors. The expectation that you’re supposed to look like a supermodel without all the products, procedures, injections, not to mention time and staff, is [sup]in[sub]sa[/sub]ne[/sup]!!
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[sup]moi would like you to return to your regular scheduled programming. She’ll be retiring to bed now.[/sup]
Spyder, your last post is signifigantly different from your first post, and I hope you understand how you have backpedaled. Now you are saying “I like . . .” ; "I prefer . . “; :In my opinion. . .” Had your OP been like this there never would have been a problem. Hell, if someone were to start a thread entitled “Shaved pits: yea or nea?” we’d see a bunch of responses, none of them vicious. And we would see that different people like different things and that that is fine. What is objectionable here and what is objectionable in all these personal apperance style threads is the attitude that your opinion is somehow the universal one, that you are speaking for men everywhere, and that anyone who claims to disagree with you is a liar. It’s as if you assume that everyone here is another version of you.
Now, thier is nothing wrong with backpedaling–all of us do it all the time here as we learn how to express ourselves better. But we all think much more highly of people who acknowledge it when they do it.
All right, I can admit when I’m wrong. I’m sorry for what I said about you and your husband. In retrospect, I can see that I should have proofread better.
Look, we’ve all beaten Spyder up about his annoying, freakishly macho OP enough. This thread isn’t producing anything new, pretty much all of the possible opinions on the subject have been represented.
He has backpedaled, and basically all of us PC folk have won the day.
I declare this thread killed by me. May none post hereafter.
MarxBoy
OK- are you free on Friday night? I’m braiding my leg hair and treating my feet warts. Oh, and make sure you eat beans for the fart lighting contest at 11pm. Bring a bathing suit!
Zette
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Oh cool! I can’t wait! I’m starting the bean thing now.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, there’s no sense BEING an asshole unless you share it with the world.
-L