Shaving legs

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Anonymous wrote:My Grandmom thinks it disgusting for woman to wear any skirts or dresses without having on a slip and pantyhose?

We all agree with that too, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there really moms TEACHING their daughters that this is normal hygiene. Come on. Do better. If they ask and choose, fine. But to tell girls you need to do this to fit into a society? Ick

Disagree. We shave our legs and armpits the same as we trim our fingernails and hair. Moms teaching their kids its fine to skip these things are doing the disservice.

Who’s we?!? lol

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Anonymous wrote:Are there really moms TEACHING their daughters that this is normal hygiene. Come on. Do better. If they ask and choose, fine. But to tell girls you need to do this to fit into a society? Ick

Disagree. We shave our legs and armpits the same as we trim our fingernails and hair. Moms teaching their kids its fine to skip these things are doing the disservice.

If this is a basic hygiene thing, you mandate the same for your sons then, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I told both of my daughters I would teach them when they are ready. Older one started summer before 7th. Younger one asked me when older one started and I told her. She chose to start at the same time.

People on this board try to act like it’s “normal” for girls not to shave legs, but IME most girls still do.

It IS "normal" for many to not shave. Just because most in your experience do, doesn't make not shaving abnormal.
It's like saying most girls and women in my experience don't put weird colors in their hair, but people act like it's normal to do so. It IS!

No sorry. You and your nonshaving teen are weird.

I don’t understand it but more girls are not shaving now. I have a teen and am a HS teacher. My daughter is hairy and used hair removal cream in 4th grade. She used it less and less the past two years and I don’t think has it all this summer. She doesn’t seem bothered by her underarms either. I ask her all of the time about the pool and she tells me I am the one with the issue if I care about hair. Last spring I saw many of my students in sleeveless shirts or dresses with unshaven armpits.

I just spent the last two weeks at two different busy beach resorts out of state and didn’t see a single solitary female with leg or armpit hair at any age. Sure I wouldn’t have noticed stubble, but nobody was au natural. Literally no one.

Are you really looking that closely at people on crowded beach resorts?

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I don’t “looking that closely.”

But DD noticed. She visited a friend over the summer who didn’t shave anything. The girl’s un shaved armpits were almost immediately noticeable.

And DD also noticed when she went to the pool with her friend. Besides the girl’s un-shaved legs, there was some rather noticeable hair sticking out of her bathing suit.

Maybe you or your child really like that look; you do you. DD found it really odd and she will continue shaving like most of her friends do.

That comment was directed at someone who said she could tell no one on a crowded beach had gone unshaven, not your child who spent the day with a friend.

Um, she spent a week, not a day, but whatever, and

At our swim club in NOVA, all the girls are wearing (shocker): swimwear. As has been mentioned, with some of the blond teens, I probably wouldn’t even notice. But our club is diverse; hairy legs, and especially unshaven arm pits would be very noticeable on a girl. It only takes a glance to notice.

They all shave.

Maybe these enormous groups of unshaven teen girls actually exist somewhere, but it’s not NOVA.

Probably more of a Takoma Park phenomenon.

+100 These parents on here claiming it is common for teen girls to go hairy are just wrong. It is not common in the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there really moms TEACHING their daughters that this is normal hygiene. Come on. Do better. If they ask and choose, fine. But to tell girls you need to do this to fit into a society? Ick

Moms not teaching their girls to shave are ick. It is gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there really moms TEACHING their daughters that this is normal hygiene. Come on. Do better. If they ask and choose, fine. But to tell girls you need to do this to fit into a society? Ick

Moms not teaching their girls to shave are ick. It is gross.

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Some moms have some seriously internalized self-loathing and insecurity disguised as concern for their daughter’s hygiene.

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Anonymous wrote:Some moms have some seriously internalized self-loathing and insecurity disguised as concern for their daughter’s hygiene.

And some people want to go out of their way to look like slobs.

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This thread is disgusting. You moms are awful forcing shaving as basic hygiene. It isn’t. All over the world many societies don’t shave ever. In Korea woman get pubic hair implants for better fertility. I mean it is a preference that you were raised a certain way. That’s it. I really hope it is just trolls. Some of these posts are so demeaning and sad.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is disgusting. You moms are awful forcing shaving as basic hygiene. It isn’t. All over the world many societies don’t shave ever. In Korea woman get pubic hair implants for better fertility. I mean it is a preference that you were raised a certain way. That’s it. I really hope it is just trolls. Some of these posts are so demeaning and sad.

Your post is the sad one. Your poor daughter. Be a parent.

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Anonymous wrote:Some moms have some seriously internalized self-loathing and insecurity disguised as concern for their daughter’s hygiene.

True but I think these are trolls or Trumpies

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Anonymous wrote:Some moms have some seriously internalized self-loathing and insecurity disguised as concern for their daughter’s hygiene.

True but I think these are trolls or Trumpies

Nope, every mom and teen I know in real life (in Nova!!) shaves. I’m convinced all these non shavers are the new goth or something. It’s not a mainstream thing at all.

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Anonymous wrote:End of 4th grade my daughter asked me, almost the exact time I asked my Mom.

OP here. I asked as soon as short season started in 5th. My DD is going into 7th (we are FCPS so, this will be the start of MS) in a couple of weeks and has not asked.

Maybe the hair doesn't bother her. A way to bring it up casually if you watch TV and see a shaving ad could say "if you want to shave you can but if you don't want to that's totally okay, lots of girls and women don't shave." Then don't bring it up agsin unless she does.
Or if you’re watching a movie where there's a shaving scene. Could say above after the movie is over, especially if you talk about the movie after.

Lots don’t shave?? Just wrong. I don’t know a single teen or woman that doesn’t shave.

Way to advertise how not diverse your friend group is, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:Some moms have some seriously internalized self-loathing and insecurity disguised as concern for their daughter’s hygiene.

True but I think these are trolls or Trumpies

Nope, every mom and teen I know in real life (in Nova!!) shaves. I’m convinced all these non shavers are the new goth or something. It’s not a mainstream thing at all.

Let me guess - you have a very narrow friend group, not diverse. Certainly no LGBT representation. (specifically L or B)

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Anonymous wrote:I told both of my daughters I would teach them when they are ready. Older one started summer before 7th. Younger one asked me when older one started and I told her. She chose to start at the same time.

People on this board try to act like it’s “normal” for girls not to shave legs, but IME most girls still do.

It IS "normal" for many to not shave. Just because most in your experience do, doesn't make not shaving abnormal.
It's like saying most girls and women in my experience don't put weird colors in their hair, but people act like it's normal to do so. It IS!

No sorry. You and your nonshaving teen are weird.

I don’t understand it but more girls are not shaving now. I have a teen and am a HS teacher. My daughter is hairy and used hair removal cream in 4th grade. She used it less and less the past two years and I don’t think has it all this summer. She doesn’t seem bothered by her underarms either. I ask her all of the time about the pool and she tells me I am the one with the issue if I care about hair. Last spring I saw many of my students in sleeveless shirts or dresses with unshaven armpits.

I just spent the last two weeks at two different busy beach resorts out of state and didn’t see a single solitary female with leg or armpit hair at any age. Sure I wouldn’t have noticed stubble, but nobody was au natural. Literally no one.

Are you really looking that closely at people on crowded beach resorts?

NP.

I don’t “looking that closely.”

But DD noticed. She visited a friend over the summer who didn’t shave anything. The girl’s un shaved armpits were almost immediately noticeable.

And DD also noticed when she went to the pool with her friend. Besides the girl’s un-shaved legs, there was some rather noticeable hair sticking out of her bathing suit.

Maybe you or your child really like that look; you do you. DD found it really odd and she will continue shaving like most of her friends do.

That comment was directed at someone who said she could tell no one on a crowded beach had gone unshaven, not your child who spent the day with a friend.

Um, she spent a week, not a day, but whatever, and

At our swim club in NOVA, all the girls are wearing (shocker): swimwear. As has been mentioned, with some of the blond teens, I probably wouldn’t even notice. But our club is diverse; hairy legs, and especially unshaven arm pits would be very noticeable on a girl. It only takes a glance to notice.

They all shave.

Maybe these enormous groups of unshaven teen girls actually exist somewhere, but it’s not NOVA.

Probably more of a Takoma Park phenomenon.

+100 These parents on here claiming it is common for teen girls to go hairy are just wrong. It is not common in the DMV.

Says who? You and the the maybe 50 people you have seen. How petty and narrow-minded are you?