How common is it to not shave legs/underarms...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two teen DDs in public schools in Nova and the number of their peers who don't shave is not a big number. When we were growing up there were always the Goth kids or whatever. There are still the "alternative dressers" but there don't seem to be any more of them than there ever were.

All of the "mainstream" teen girls we know shave per usual.

Hmm. So my caucasian daughter who doesn't wear tops 3 sizes too small baring her mid-section and cleavage, but wears t-shirts and leggings or jeans, is a straight-A student with multiple APs, and is integrally involved in a large and popular extracurricular activity is not "mainstream" because she doesn't shave her legs?

The few peers your two teen daughters in public schools know don't shave are not "mainstream" peers .... how? because they don't shave?

[Anonymous]

Yeah I don’t get it. My 17 yo shaves when she wants to but sees no big deal walking around hairy. Nor do her friends and she is well liked. It would have been social suicide if I did this as a teen. I do stay on her to bikiniscape as she wears tiny bathing suits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two teen DDs in public schools in Nova and the number of their peers who don't shave is not a big number. When we were growing up there were always the Goth kids or whatever. There are still the "alternative dressers" but there don't seem to be any more of them than there ever were.

All of the "mainstream" teen girls we know shave per usual.

Great poll taking lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don’t get it. My 17 yo shaves when she wants to but sees no big deal walking around hairy. Nor do her friends and she is well liked. It would have been social suicide if I did this as a teen. I do stay on her to bikiniscape as she wears tiny bathing suits.

That's a whole other question I'd like to know the answer to. Why are parents ok with their teens wearing tiny bathing suits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girls are no more or less virtuous or attractive today because they don't wear stockings or corsets. Trends change. People adapt. It's not a big deal to the young people. It's only a big deal to the dinosaurs.

I'm sure many of our grandparents at some point scratched their heads about young women going around with bare, unstockinged legs.

The majority still shave under their arms. The majority of young women do shave or wax their pubic hair which they would only do for men.

By your logic, all lesbians prefer hairy pits?

GTFO, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don’t get it. My 17 yo shaves when she wants to but sees no big deal walking around hairy. Nor do her friends and she is well liked. It would have been social suicide if I did this as a teen. I do stay on her to bikiniscape as she wears tiny bathing suits.

That's a whole other question I'd like to know the answer to. Why are parents ok with their teens wearing tiny bathing suits?

Because I don't judge people base on what they wear. Stop clutching your pearls granny. Teens and string bikinis have been around since the 70's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The old woman in here having issues with work ethics or what is gross are unreal lol

Girls and woman do what they want now. Playing by men’s rules no longer applies. The woman that continue to judge like men are the issue. Grow up

Not shaving any body parts started in the 60s or 70s with the “dirty hippies” as they were called back then. It’s nothing new. It’s about a small amount of females not practicing the same grooming as the majority of females.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 15yr old is blonde and only shaved her armpits and bikini area. Never the legs. She said today on the beach “you can really see my leg hair now that I am so tan” and then shrugged and went back to reading her book. She’s had a boyfriend for 7 months and it pretty girly girl.

It just doesn’t seem to be a thing she cares about and I love it

Curious - if she doesn't care about the leg hair, why does she care so much about the bikini line? That's the worst place to shave.

Because pubic hair isn't light blond and is longer and bushier and can come out of the sides of a bathing suit. This is common sense. And my girls use Magic Razorless Shaving cream and a lot of girls use an electric razor for that area too.

It can be blonde. It can be sparse or thick, curly or straight. But at all times, it’s NONE of your business!

The idea that it’s a career issue does not fit with my daughter and her friends. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girls are no more or less virtuous or attractive today because they don't wear stockings or corsets. Trends change. People adapt. It's not a big deal to the young people. It's only a big deal to the dinosaurs.

I'm sure many of our grandparents at some point scratched their heads about young women going around with bare, unstockinged legs.

The majority still shave under their arms. The majority of young women do shave or wax their pubic hair which they would only do for men.

By your logic, all lesbians prefer hairy pits?

GTFO, PP.

I don’t think you read the post correctly. It says the majority of women still shave their underarms. No mention of gay women. It says the majority of young women still go hairless in the pubic area. They do it for men, or women they have sex with.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't assume that girls/women who shave the bikini area are going hairless. Some people have public hair that creeps down their thighs. Many girls/women shave the pubic hair that their bathing suit doesn't cover, but keep the pubic hair that is covered.

[Anonymous]

My early 20s sister doesn’t. Seems a lot more common now.

Glad more people feel like they have the option

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two teen DDs in public schools in Nova and the number of their peers who don't shave is not a big number. When we were growing up there were always the Goth kids or whatever. There are still the "alternative dressers" but there don't seem to be any more of them than there ever were.

All of the "mainstream" teen girls we know shave per usual.

Hmm. So my caucasian daughter who doesn't wear tops 3 sizes too small baring her mid-section and cleavage, but wears t-shirts and leggings or jeans, is a straight-A student with multiple APs, and is integrally involved in a large and popular extracurricular activity is not "mainstream" because she doesn't shave her legs?

The few peers your two teen daughters in public schools know don't shave are not "mainstream" peers .... how? because they don't shave?

DP. But is your DD popular? Does she have her pick of boyfriends? That’s what it’s about, not APs or whatever

[Anonymous]

In the summer or the winter? Lol

[Anonymous]

My nieces wax legs and underarms, as do I, so it needs to grow back in. It’s not noticeable and plenty of their peers don’t shave (or wax and let it grow in in between). It’s weird how fixated DCUM is on this, it’s not reflected in the teens at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nieces wax legs and underarms, as do I, so it needs to grow back in. It’s not noticeable and plenty of their peers don’t shave (or wax and let it grow in in between). It’s weird how fixated DCUM is on this, it’s not reflected in the teens at all.

I don’t know of any teens that wax legs and underarms. I think that has definitely gone out of favor unless if it is a part of your culture ( Middle Eastern, maybe others?)