Does your DD shave her legs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Men prefer women without body hair because their media and culture have conditioned them that way. It’s not a hard-wired instinctual thing—women naturally have leg and armpit hair, so our caveman ancestors clearly weren’t holding out for the cave-lady with the cleanest prehistoric Brazilian. And in many modern cultures, it’s totally acceptable for women not to shave, because that’s the cultural norm.

So why shouldn’t our hairy-legged daughters be on the forefront of social change? One less impossible beauty standard for women to incessantly chase isn’t a bad thing.

(I’ll admit to wishing my daughter would at least shave her pits, but that’s my own issue to deal with. She’s confident in herself, and I’d never knowingly do anything to shake that. It’s a rare and fragile quality in a teenage girl.)

You could make the exact same argument about body odor, regular bathing, and deodorant.

You are free to choose, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are acting like a majority of teens are not shaving. I have 3 teenage girls. Different friend groups (one artsy, theatre type girl, one is sporty and one is conventionally popular group). I have seen ZERO hairy legs around here when their friends are over, swimming in our pool, etc. Every girl appears to shave or wax her legs. These girls all attend DC private school.

So you're paying $150,000 a year so your three DD's are learning to please others?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are acting like a majority of teens are not shaving. I have 3 teenage girls. Different friend groups (one artsy, theatre type girl, one is sporty and one is conventionally popular group). I have seen ZERO hairy legs around here when their friends are over, swimming in our pool, etc. Every girl appears to shave or wax her legs. These girls all attend DC private school.

So you're paying $150,000 a year so your three DD's are learning to please others?

DP.

Wow. Super-judgy and mean response, targeting her family choice to go private. And the comment is completely off topic too.

Do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Men prefer women without body hair because their media and culture have conditioned them that way. It’s not a hard-wired instinctual thing—women naturally have leg and armpit hair, so our caveman ancestors clearly weren’t holding out for the cave-lady with the cleanest prehistoric Brazilian. And in many modern cultures, it’s totally acceptable for women not to shave, because that’s the cultural norm.

So why shouldn’t our hairy-legged daughters be on the forefront of social change? One less impossible beauty standard for women to incessantly chase isn’t a bad thing.

(I’ll admit to wishing my daughter would at least shave her pits, but that’s my own issue to deal with. She’s confident in herself, and I’d never knowingly do anything to shake that. It’s a rare and fragile quality in a teenage girl.)

You could make the exact same argument about body odor, regular bathing, and deodorant.

You are free to choose, I guess.

No, you cannot make that argument about deodorant and regular bathing. Those are not beauty standards for women. They are grooming expectations for all genders and have nothing to do with beauty and are only tangentially related to attracting the opposite sex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are acting like a majority of teens are not shaving. I have 3 teenage girls. Different friend groups (one artsy, theatre type girl, one is sporty and one is conventionally popular group). I have seen ZERO hairy legs around here when their friends are over, swimming in our pool, etc. Every girl appears to shave or wax her legs. These girls all attend DC private school.

So you're paying $150,000 a year so your three DD's are learning to please others?

DP.

Wow. Super-judgy and mean response, targeting her family choice to go private. And the comment is completely off topic too.

Do better.

It was a dumb response, but the comment mentioning private school in the first place was dumb, too. Completely irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Mine removes all body hair including yes…..that. She says she hates the feel on the sheets, I suspect having a boyfriend is another reason (I don’t think he cares, it’s more her)

She’s blonde so it’s pretty light. I often forget to shave and really only do it in the summer (even then I don’t care much, just when I remember) so she didn’t get this dislike of body hair from me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are acting like a majority of teens are not shaving. I have 3 teenage girls. Different friend groups (one artsy, theatre type girl, one is sporty and one is conventionally popular group). I have seen ZERO hairy legs around here when their friends are over, swimming in our pool, etc. Every girl appears to shave or wax her legs. These girls all attend DC private school.

So you're paying $150,000 a year so your three DD's are learning to please others?

in public and everyone is see shaves from my DDs friend mostly the conventional popular/or wanna be group.
I would let her choose but honestly body hair on females is ugly to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Men prefer women without body hair because their media and culture have conditioned them that way. It’s not a hard-wired instinctual thing—women naturally have leg and armpit hair, so our caveman ancestors clearly weren’t holding out for the cave-lady with the cleanest prehistoric Brazilian. And in many modern cultures, it’s totally acceptable for women not to shave, because that’s the cultural norm.

So why shouldn’t our hairy-legged daughters be on the forefront of social change? One less impossible beauty standard for women to incessantly chase isn’t a bad thing.

(I’ll admit to wishing my daughter would at least shave her pits, but that’s my own issue to deal with. She’s confident in herself, and I’d never knowingly do anything to shake that. It’s a rare and fragile quality in a teenage girl.)

You could make the exact same argument about body odor, regular bathing, and deodorant.

You are free to choose, I guess.

why are super str8 teeth popular?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are acting like a majority of teens are not shaving. I have 3 teenage girls. Different friend groups (one artsy, theatre type girl, one is sporty and one is conventionally popular group). I have seen ZERO hairy legs around here when their friends are over, swimming in our pool, etc. Every girl appears to shave or wax her legs. These girls all attend DC private school.

So you're paying $150,000 a year so your three DD's are learning to please others?

Interesting that you assume they don’t shave for themselves. Are women not allowed to like the feel and look of their smooth legs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are acting like a majority of teens are not shaving. I have 3 teenage girls. Different friend groups (one artsy, theatre type girl, one is sporty and one is conventionally popular group). I have seen ZERO hairy legs around here when their friends are over, swimming in our pool, etc. Every girl appears to shave or wax her legs. These girls all attend DC private school.

So you're paying $150,000 a year so your three DD's are learning to please others?

in public and everyone is see shaves from my DDs friend mostly the conventional popular/or wanna be group.
I would let her choose but honestly body hair on females is ugly to me

Female what? Humans?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Men prefer women without body hair because their media and culture have conditioned them that way. It’s not a hard-wired instinctual thing—women naturally have leg and armpit hair, so our caveman ancestors clearly weren’t holding out for the cave-lady with the cleanest prehistoric Brazilian. And in many modern cultures, it’s totally acceptable for women not to shave, because that’s the cultural norm.

So why shouldn’t our hairy-legged daughters be on the forefront of social change? One less impossible beauty standard for women to incessantly chase isn’t a bad thing.

(I’ll admit to wishing my daughter would at least shave her pits, but that’s my own issue to deal with. She’s confident in herself, and I’d never knowingly do anything to shake that. It’s a rare and fragile quality in a teenage girl.)

You could make the exact same argument about body odor, regular bathing, and deodorant.

You are free to choose, I guess.

why are super str8 teeth popular?

They're not. There's a whole world outside of the US. You're a minority in wanting teeth to look like chicklets. In the rest of the world, the American teeth ideal is considered creepy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if this is a new trend. My older teen daughter has decided she doesn't like shaving her legs anymore. She is still wearing shorts and it's getting pretty long. She also has a summer job where she works outdoors and is working with the public.

I know it's her body just a little worried about what people might say to her, or if it will affect her job in any way. Or is this common now for teen girls?

Yes. I have explicitly told her multiple times over the years that not doing so isn’t an option. She isn’t allowed to come to any family gatherings without shaven legs and armpits.

Are you the Yeti family?

[Anonymous]

Teen girls shave way more than us adults, let’s just say that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Men prefer women without body hair because their media and culture have conditioned them that way. It’s not a hard-wired instinctual thing—women naturally have leg and armpit hair, so our caveman ancestors clearly weren’t holding out for the cave-lady with the cleanest prehistoric Brazilian. And in many modern cultures, it’s totally acceptable for women not to shave, because that’s the cultural norm.

So why shouldn’t our hairy-legged daughters be on the forefront of social change? One less impossible beauty standard for women to incessantly chase isn’t a bad thing.

(I’ll admit to wishing my daughter would at least shave her pits, but that’s my own issue to deal with. She’s confident in herself, and I’d never knowingly do anything to shake that. It’s a rare and fragile quality in a teenage girl.)

You could make the exact same argument about body odor, regular bathing, and deodorant.

You are free to choose, I guess.

why are super str8 teeth popular?

They're not. There's a whole world outside of the US. You're a minority in wanting teeth to look like chicklets. In the rest of the world, the American teeth ideal is considered creepy.

Not to mention:

-if a man isn’t attracted to me just because my teeth are all crooked/ missing, my legs and pits are super hairy, and I only bathe once a month, then that man is:

- a sexist pig!

Amirite?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Men prefer women without body hair because their media and culture have conditioned them that way. It’s not a hard-wired instinctual thing—women naturally have leg and armpit hair, so our caveman ancestors clearly weren’t holding out for the cave-lady with the cleanest prehistoric Brazilian. And in many modern cultures, it’s totally acceptable for women not to shave, because that’s the cultural norm.

So why shouldn’t our hairy-legged daughters be on the forefront of social change? One less impossible beauty standard for women to incessantly chase isn’t a bad thing.

(I’ll admit to wishing my daughter would at least shave her pits, but that’s my own issue to deal with. She’s confident in herself, and I’d never knowingly do anything to shake that. It’s a rare and fragile quality in a teenage girl.)

You could make the exact same argument about body odor, regular bathing, and deodorant.

You are free to choose, I guess.

why are super str8 teeth popular?

They're not. There's a whole world outside of the US. You're a minority in wanting teeth to look like chicklets. In the rest of the world, the American teeth ideal is considered creepy.

Not to mention:

-if a man isn’t attracted to me just because my teeth are all crooked/ missing, my legs and pits are super hairy, and I only bathe once a month, then that man is:

- a sexist pig!

Amirite?!

Crooked teeth are not missing teeth. And bathing once a month is not the same thing as not shaving.
Stop being stupid.