# Women's leg hair and the existence of God **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275 "2014-08-23T05:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/21 "2014-08-23T18:08:27Z")
Isn’t the bigger question, why do males have nipples? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/22 "2014-08-23T18:15:50Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Isn’t the bigger question, why do males have nipples? Heh. I was waiting for this post. You guys rarely disappoint. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/23 "2014-08-23T18:17:16Z")
Having been pregnant, I can attest that’s really where user testing failed. Small item (really small) grows in your body, everything else makes room for it, by virtue of getting shoved the heck out of the way. Small item ends up frickin’ huge, kicks and makes a ruckus. Not to mention peeing every 5 minutes and morning sickness, which lasts all day. And then the little replicant comes OUT. Miracle of birth my ass. Shoulda tested that one a little longer. Leg hair is least of it. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/24 "2014-08-23T18:29:28Z")
Maybe we and everythig else on earth is still a work in progress. If he changed everything at once adaptation might be difficult. Come back in 10 or 20 million years and let us know what you think of his current designs. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/25 "2014-08-23T18:29:35Z")
You’d rather it stayed IN? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/26 "2014-08-23T18:35:36Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > You’d rather it stayed IN? Great googly moogly NO! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![PorchePine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@PorchePine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PorchePine)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/27 "2014-08-23T18:35:38Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Maybe we and everythig else on earth is still a work in progress. If he changed everything at once adaptation might be difficult. Come back in 10 or 20 million years and let us know what you think of his current designs. So we’re the equivalent of the 8th iteration of Windows? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/28 "2014-08-23T18:46:12Z")
Just because of the existence of something you don’t like, is not by itself proof that God does or does not exist. I could submit, as proof that there is no God, the existence of Cilantro. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/29 "2014-08-23T18:56:03Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > If God designed women, why did he give them leg hair? For some women it is very thick. Also the same thing about arm pit hair. What is its purpose? So that people know that the woman is mature? What was God thinking? God is not a modern American, so is not beholden to idiosyncratically modern American cosmetic fashions. ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/30 "2014-08-23T19:18:11Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > Why do children and babies not need it then? Because babies have mommies, ideally, to protect and shelter them until they mature. And children do have leg hair, it’s just not as thick or as coarse as it will be later in life. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/31 "2014-08-23T19:26:30Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > Arm PIT hair… Yeah some might that but almost all would have a bush. Yet many women get rid of it as if they’re a child. Don’t go starting this shit again. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/32 "2014-08-23T19:40:34Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > God is not a modern American, so is not beholden to idiosyncratically modern American cosmetic fashions. I’m agnostic, but the God I don’t believe in is English-speaking and pro-American. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/33 "2014-08-23T20:14:35Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Miracle of birth my ass. Shoulda tested that one a little longer. This one’s explained in Genesis 2. Childbirth originally was painless and perfect – God only reverted to an earlier prototype design as punishment for Eve eating that goddamned apple. (Don’t get me started on why there’s a fucking apple tree in the Garden of Eden to begin with…) Now, penises – are they considered perfect, or imperfect? When Jews/Muslims seal their covenant with God by chopping off the foreskin, is it symbolic of improving on God’s flawed design? Or a metaphorical statement of becoming less perfect in the sight of God? Clearly, this is the real question for the ages here. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/34 "2014-08-23T20:23:43Z")
> [@orangeapples](#): > > Because babies have mommies, ideally, to protect and shelter them until they mature. And children do have leg hair, it’s just not as thick or as coarse as it will be later in life. Eh if you include vellus hair then EVERYONE, from fetus to 100+ years old is entirely covered in hair head to toe(well except for lips and foot soles). Seems kinda cheating since it isn’t visible to the naked eye. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/35 "2014-08-23T20:47:32Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Just because of the existence of something you don’t like, is not by itself proof that God does or does not exist. I could submit, as proof that there is no God, the existence of Cilantro. Some people LOVE cilantro. Other people think it tastes like soap. That just shows that He blesses some people and not others. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/36 "2014-08-23T21:07:49Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > Some people LOVE cilantro. Other people think it tastes like soap. > > That just shows that He blesses some people and not others. 😉 But the OP used his own personal taste as the criteria, disregarding my own personal preference for hairy women. So exercised my right to do the same. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/37 "2014-08-23T23:13:58Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > But the OP used his own personal taste as the criteria, disregarding my own personal preference for hairy women. So exercised my right to do the same. So you prefer the left leg? [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSA9RwP8-T4uB3ymyDEWBXbWNzS-CBl8G8Yr-YIfCDsagL04ysXfw) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSA9RwP8-T4uB3ymyDEWBXbWNzS-CBl8G8Yr-YIfCDsagL04ysXfw) ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/38 "2014-08-23T23:41:02Z")
Also in old paintings of naked people they usually didn’t paint the bodyhair… maybe because it looked better that way - or because it was easier. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/39 "2014-08-24T00:15:32Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > If God designed women, why did he give them leg hair? For some women it is very thick. Also the same thing about arm pit hair. What is its purpose? So that people know that the woman is mature? What was God thinking? Just…just stop. Why does anyone have hair? Why are you asking this cluelessly inappropriate question? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/40 "2014-08-24T00:18:03Z")
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