# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![The\_Wino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@The\_Wino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wino)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/61 "2014-08-24T16:19:45Z")
My husband does have a few sparse chin hairs, but that’s it for facial hair. When my great-grandma started to become infirm at around age 88 I moved in to help her take care of herself and her condo. I remember commenting to my mother (I was a teenager at the time) that at least I wouldn’t have to shave anymore when I got old. I was under the impression that her armpit and leg hair had just fallen out, like on a bald guy’s head, but she told me she’d just never had any. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/62 "2014-08-24T16:24:22Z")
Asking why women have leg hair is like asking why men have nipples - it’s because having it isn’t such a great liability that it prevents people from leaving descendants. And, as already pointed out, not all adult women have leg hair. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/63 "2014-08-24T17:41:12Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > If God designed women, why did he give them leg hair? Women’s legs are godly, and it would be immodest for god to walk about naked, ergo hair. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/64 "2014-08-24T18:44:47Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > Why do children and babies not need it then? My 3yo niece has more back hair than many men I’ve seen. I’ve never studied her legs. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/65 "2014-08-24T23:32:30Z")
> [@kk\_fusion](#): > > Correct, if God (exists and) designed humans separately from other animals some 6000 years ago, he did a rather poor job. I cite the lower back and the knee as proof of design flaws in humans, and proof that “intelligent design” must be utter bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/66 "2014-08-25T00:53:10Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > My 3yo niece has more back hair than many men I’ve seen. I’ve never studied her legs. > **[Genesis 25:25 - Jacob and Esau](https://biblehub.com/genesis/25-25.htm)** > > The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau. BTW about a hairy baby: “…The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau…” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/67 "2014-08-25T01:36:07Z")
In this memo from God to the Kansas Board of Education God admits He isn’t perfect when he wonders why he included armpit hair. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27731-2005Apr5.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27731-2005Apr5.html) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/68 "2014-08-26T15:24:22Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > Leg hair makes men manly. Same with beards. Bearded women probably aren’t seen as attractive no matter what culture it is. I don’t know about you **JohnClay** , but I think [Harnaam Kaur](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2718806/It-makes-feel-like-confident-woman-not-afraid-break-society-s-norms-British-bearded-lady-new-photography-exhibition-showcasing-world-s-best-facial-hair.html) is strikingly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/69 "2014-08-26T16:34:10Z")
What was he thinking? He was thinking maybe you would like women they way they are. It’s hardly God’s fault that we think women have to diet, sculpt, shave, pluck, wax, paint, lift, separate, decorate, etc., etc., etc. to be acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/70 "2014-08-26T17:40:13Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I cite the lower back and the knee as proof of design flaws in humans, and proof that “intelligent design” must be utter bullshit. I’ll raise you the inability to synthesize Vitamin C, so sailors get scurvy, and the rats on the ship don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/71 "2014-08-26T19:12:47Z")
> [@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. Women get rid of the hair because they resent being grown-ups and wish to be child-like forever. Like women Peter Pans. > [@cher3](#): > > It’s hardly God’s fault that we think women have to diet, sculpt, shave, pluck, wax, paint, lift, separate, decorate, etc., etc., etc. to be acceptable. Yes it is. God should not have made such an inferior product, including men, that needed to diet, sculpt, shave, wax, paint, rotate tires, change oil etc. etc. etc in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275/72 "2014-08-26T19:47:14Z")
njtt: > [@](#): > > God is not a modern American, so is not beholden to idiosyncratically modern American cosmetic fashions. While not universal, the shaving of women’s legs (and/or private parts) is neither exclusively American nor exclusively modern. I recently found mention of this practice in the Talmud, which is of Middle-Eastern origin 2000 years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-leg-hair-and-the-existence-of-god/696275.md?page=3)