Hirsute Rant
Well I'm alive.
I've had my feet up as my ankles decided to swell to the size of melons.
I'm off to see the midwife today which I'm not looking forward to. Every time I go to see her I feel like she'll find something wrong. Paranoid much?
Today I decided to have a lurk around FF and came across a thread that got me thinking. It's called 'Is There Anything Worse Than A Female With Facial Hair?' and I found the contents to be disgusting. Everyone has facial hair and some women have more visible facial hair than others. But the topic in question has degenerated into a discussion about pubic hair. Now hair on women is one of my pet peeves. Women are hairy as are men and this trend that has gone from the 80s to the present day of women having to shave/wax/pluck everything. I mention from the eighties because if anyone has ever seen some vintage porn mags from the sixties/seventies, you'll see that most women are pretty hairy down below.
Years ago there was a huge outburst when a Page Three model appeared in The Sun with a hair growing out of her nipple (way before airbrushing was the norm). One of the men I worked with was telling everyone in the coffee lounge how it had put him off his breakfast. Me being me, confronted him and said that he'd never had a long term relationship (if Buffy had been around I would have told him that he hadn't had the tiniest bit of sex). A lot of the women have hairy nipples and the guy needed to deal with that fact, can you imagine how he would react to living with a woman and discovering her plucking her nipple hair? what a wuss. Any man that has lived with a woman for a period of time, will come to realise that we don't have naturally smooth skin, we have hair and we have to deal with it.
Now this trend is no longer gender based and this makes me sad. I like seeing a man with a hairy chest and I certainly wouldn't ask a man to shave his testicles (ouch). It's much more normal now to hear of men shaving/wax/plucking and I find this a sad state of affairs. Then again they will now appreciate the shit women have had to go through for decades.
I have nothing against keeping yourself groomed (quite the opposite). I do the waxing/shaving/plucking thing myself but a lot of the time I just feel that this emphasis on hairless bodies to be superficial. Unfortunately it's now considered wrong to let your hair grow naturally. Look at what happened to poor Julia Roberts when she didn't shave her pits.
Personally I blame the entire thing on porn.
Other news, Mum is coming out of hospital on Monday - Hurrah. Also means that I will probably be going over to her house a lot to help out until she is properly back on her feet. I'm going to be exhausted.
I've had my feet up as my ankles decided to swell to the size of melons.
I'm off to see the midwife today which I'm not looking forward to. Every time I go to see her I feel like she'll find something wrong. Paranoid much?
Today I decided to have a lurk around FF and came across a thread that got me thinking. It's called 'Is There Anything Worse Than A Female With Facial Hair?' and I found the contents to be disgusting. Everyone has facial hair and some women have more visible facial hair than others. But the topic in question has degenerated into a discussion about pubic hair. Now hair on women is one of my pet peeves. Women are hairy as are men and this trend that has gone from the 80s to the present day of women having to shave/wax/pluck everything. I mention from the eighties because if anyone has ever seen some vintage porn mags from the sixties/seventies, you'll see that most women are pretty hairy down below.
Years ago there was a huge outburst when a Page Three model appeared in The Sun with a hair growing out of her nipple (way before airbrushing was the norm). One of the men I worked with was telling everyone in the coffee lounge how it had put him off his breakfast. Me being me, confronted him and said that he'd never had a long term relationship (if Buffy had been around I would have told him that he hadn't had the tiniest bit of sex). A lot of the women have hairy nipples and the guy needed to deal with that fact, can you imagine how he would react to living with a woman and discovering her plucking her nipple hair? what a wuss. Any man that has lived with a woman for a period of time, will come to realise that we don't have naturally smooth skin, we have hair and we have to deal with it.
Now this trend is no longer gender based and this makes me sad. I like seeing a man with a hairy chest and I certainly wouldn't ask a man to shave his testicles (ouch). It's much more normal now to hear of men shaving/wax/plucking and I find this a sad state of affairs. Then again they will now appreciate the shit women have had to go through for decades.
I have nothing against keeping yourself groomed (quite the opposite). I do the waxing/shaving/plucking thing myself but a lot of the time I just feel that this emphasis on hairless bodies to be superficial. Unfortunately it's now considered wrong to let your hair grow naturally. Look at what happened to poor Julia Roberts when she didn't shave her pits.
Personally I blame the entire thing on porn.
Other news, Mum is coming out of hospital on Monday - Hurrah. Also means that I will probably be going over to her house a lot to help out until she is properly back on her feet. I'm going to be exhausted.