I'm tired of "statement armpits"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have armpit hair. We get it. Most people do. It's still not attractive to display.

Discuss.

OP, you made me laugh. I'm totally with you. I busted out laughing for some reason with the "Discuss" ending...I guess because no one ever seems to want to discuss and point out the obvious. Like that it's gross.

When I was early 20s, I had a part time job working in a bridal shop. I used to love to draw wedding gowns/fashion sketches and I thought this would be such a fun job. What I never anticipated was the neurotic bridezillas... or the bride who came to me wanting to try on about a dozen beautiful white gowns (we had to go into the dressing rooms with them to help them with these gowns). Imagine my surprise when she had armpit hair long enough to braid. I didn't like the idea of that getting all over these gowns.

OP. I totally get it. I watched a Love is Blind episode where a bride with super long armpit hair tried on gowns. Ugh. I'm not enlightened enough to enjoy this kind of "elevated" entertainment.

[Anonymous]

I have naturally kinky/curly hair. My armpit hair is also very curly. The amount of work I have to do to prevent ingrown hairs in my armpits, which get incredibly uncomfortable, is not something that I am willing to do. It does not grow very long, far shorter than most men, and i trim it with clippers, but it is not a close shave/cut. I am clean, I wash daily, wear deodorant and I just don't care that you judge me. And you do judge. I see the looks from time to time, because y'all love to give nasty looks to those you feel are beneath you.

I am Black, and honestly, this entire thread of judgmental women just makes me sick. You sound EXACTLY like all the white women who love to make comments about how "wild" my natural curly hair is, or how "brave" I am to not straighten my hair or some other judgmental and dismissive comment wrapped in faux admiration. The way that my hair naturally grows out of my head is considered unprofessional/unkempt/ugly/etc in the west, while the way that the most white people's hair naturally grows out of their heads is acceptable. Get over yourselves.

Can y'all please STOP trying to police everything about other people. Leave our bodies alone. Seriously. If your immediate thought is to dismiss me as an overly sensitive snowflake and not consider that you might be participating in upholding white supremacy, you are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have naturally kinky/curly hair. My armpit hair is also very curly. The amount of work I have to do to prevent ingrown hairs in my armpits, which get incredibly uncomfortable, is not something that I am willing to do. It does not grow very long, far shorter than most men, and i trim it with clippers, but it is not a close shave/cut. I am clean, I wash daily, wear deodorant and I just don't care that you judge me. And you do judge. I see the looks from time to time, because y'all love to give nasty looks to those you feel are beneath you.

I am Black, and honestly, this entire thread of judgmental women just makes me sick. You sound EXACTLY like all the white women who love to make comments about how "wild" my natural curly hair is, or how "brave" I am to not straighten my hair or some other judgmental and dismissive comment wrapped in faux admiration. The way that my hair naturally grows out of my head is considered unprofessional/unkempt/ugly/etc in the west, while the way that the most white people's hair naturally grows out of their heads is acceptable. Get over yourselves.

Can y'all please STOP trying to police everything about other people. Leave our bodies alone. Seriously. If your immediate thought is to dismiss me as an overly sensitive snowflake and not consider that you might be participating in upholding white supremacy, you are the problem.

You sound nothing like Rachel McAdams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I don't care if people shave or not. I'm tired of people-- mostly celebrities whose star is dimming-- doing photo shots with their hairy armpits as the focal point.

Armpits are gross and people don't want to see them. They also don't want to see the bottoms of your feet or the insides of your teeth. This isn't revelatory. And having hairy armpits isn't feminist or something. It takes no effort to grow armpit hair. It's not even like, styled.

I appreciate these photos, even while I hope they become uncontroversial. The more this is normalized, the less often people think I am making a statement by existing in a simpler way. The sad part is that these women are actually helping to free us from a social requirement, in favor of a minor choice based on comfort. And you ridicule the path that you and your daughters will benefit from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have naturally kinky/curly hair. My armpit hair is also very curly. The amount of work I have to do to prevent ingrown hairs in my armpits, which get incredibly uncomfortable, is not something that I am willing to do. It does not grow very long, far shorter than most men, and i trim it with clippers, but it is not a close shave/cut. I am clean, I wash daily, wear deodorant and I just don't care that you judge me. And you do judge. I see the looks from time to time, because y'all love to give nasty looks to those you feel are beneath you.

I am Black, and honestly, this entire thread of judgmental women just makes me sick. You sound EXACTLY like all the white women who love to make comments about how "wild" my natural curly hair is, or how "brave" I am to not straighten my hair or some other judgmental and dismissive comment wrapped in faux admiration. The way that my hair naturally grows out of my head is considered unprofessional/unkempt/ugly/etc in the west, while the way that the most white people's hair naturally grows out of their heads is acceptable. Get over yourselves.

Can y'all please STOP trying to police everything about other people. Leave our bodies alone. Seriously. If your immediate thought is to dismiss me as an overly sensitive snowflake and not consider that you might be participating in upholding white supremacy, you are the problem.

All of this!

[Anonymous]

I'm a natural blonde and I grew out my armpit hair. No one noticed for two years.

[Anonymous]

Shut up, granny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is giving me flashbacks to the 70's when I was a kid. My aunt came back from Europe and was very proud that she stopped shaving. She was wearing a sleeveless top and I remember staring at her armpits as we were getting food from the table. I felt like I had so many questions but didn't say anything.

In France in the late 80s the style was the same. I'm laughing that his thread is seven pages long and most posters seem to think this is a new and never-heard-of trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have naturally kinky/curly hair. My armpit hair is also very curly. The amount of work I have to do to prevent ingrown hairs in my armpits, which get incredibly uncomfortable, is not something that I am willing to do. It does not grow very long, far shorter than most men, and i trim it with clippers, but it is not a close shave/cut. I am clean, I wash daily, wear deodorant and I just don't care that you judge me. And you do judge. I see the looks from time to time, because y'all love to give nasty looks to those you feel are beneath you.

I am Black, and honestly, this entire thread of judgmental women just makes me sick. You sound EXACTLY like all the white women who love to make comments about how "wild" my natural curly hair is, or how "brave" I am to not straighten my hair or some other judgmental and dismissive comment wrapped in faux admiration. The way that my hair naturally grows out of my head is considered unprofessional/unkempt/ugly/etc in the west, while the way that the most white people's hair naturally grows out of their heads is acceptable. Get over yourselves.

Can y'all please STOP trying to police everything about other people. Leave our bodies alone. Seriously. If your immediate thought is to dismiss me as an overly sensitive snowflake and not consider that you might be participating in upholding white supremacy, you are the problem.

This is interesting because I find black women to be extremely judgmental about white women’s hygiene practices. I don’t use a wash cloth, for example, and I don’t soap up my arms/legs very often and black women are the first to tell me how dirty and disgusting I am and how I must smell.

[Anonymous]

I don't remember where I read it but evidently some of the impetus behind this may have been "porn" photography of women in the late 1800s which showed them without body hair. Who knows how many men got the idea that was how women should look...

If true, those photos may have driven cultural demand especially when dresses became sleeveless and hemlines rose in the early 1900s. It was marketed to women that they needed to shave to be desirable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the armpit hair not make any perspiration/bo smell more or hold in the smell?

Well what do you think?

Yes. These girls stink.

Also, au naturales: if you don’t practice basic Western hygiene, your armpits aren’t the only noticeable odor by the end of the day. All those Tom’s products combined with “let it flow” mentality leads to ripeness by evening come summer time.

So...men don't stink? Why is men's armpit hair not stinky? What is it about women's armpit hair that makes it stink whereas men's armpit hair apparently does not? Would love to hear all about it!

First, men are hairy and gross in all kinds of ways. That is their role. Testosterone, hair, muscle, assertiveness, dangling appendices, providing, protection. That’s not a “construct”, it is how all of humanity has functioned until the last 15 minutes or so. Men being hairy isn’t off putting. Hairy women are.

Second, men aren’t doing it as a statement. And Western men bathe every day and wear deodorant. Women who choose to be edgy, or granola, or militantly feminist, etc. tend NOT to wear effective antiperspirant or deodorant. They either wear nothing out of some misguided college freshman “let’s go protest!” mentality, or they’re super crunchy and think Tom’s or some herbal supplement or rubbing rosemary leaves on their hairy crevices somehow addresses the stink. It doesn’t. I had an acquaintance I really liked, lovely woman, smart and attractive. But she bought into all this claptrap. Come evening time you could literally be sitting next to her and get wafts of BO and worse (nether regions). It was so gross. I couldn’t even hang out with her anymore. And that’s not just anecdotal about one person, it happens a lot. This was just a particular person who stands out in my mind because she was otherwise really cool.

Just grow up already. Your pit pubes don’t need to be a political statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I don't care if people shave or not. I'm tired of people-- mostly celebrities whose star is dimming-- doing photo shots with their hairy armpits as the focal point.

Armpits are gross and people don't want to see them. They also don't want to see the bottoms of your feet or the insides of your teeth. This isn't revelatory. And having hairy armpits isn't feminist or something. It takes no effort to grow armpit hair. It's not even like, styled.

So profound, OP, you're just like so super like smart. OMG. WOW. Fetch. Like coooool.



Idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the armpit hair not make any perspiration/bo smell more or hold in the smell?

Well what do you think?

Yes. These girls stink.

Also, au naturales: if you don’t practice basic Western hygiene, your armpits aren’t the only noticeable odor by the end of the day. All those Tom’s products combined with “let it flow” mentality leads to ripeness by evening come summer time.

So...men don't stink? Why is men's armpit hair not stinky? What is it about women's armpit hair that makes it stink whereas men's armpit hair apparently does not? Would love to hear all about it!

First, men are hairy and gross in all kinds of ways. That is their role. Testosterone, hair, muscle, assertiveness, dangling appendices, providing, protection. That’s not a “construct”, it is how all of humanity has functioned until the last 15 minutes or so. Men being hairy isn’t off putting. Hairy women are.

Second, men aren’t doing it as a statement. And Western men bathe every day and wear deodorant. Women who choose to be edgy, or granola, or militantly feminist, etc. tend NOT to wear effective antiperspirant or deodorant. They either wear nothing out of some misguided college freshman “let’s go protest!” mentality, or they’re super crunchy and think Tom’s or some herbal supplement or rubbing rosemary leaves on their hairy crevices somehow addresses the stink. It doesn’t. I had an acquaintance I really liked, lovely woman, smart and attractive. But she bought into all this claptrap. Come evening time you could literally be sitting next to her and get wafts of BO and worse (nether regions). It was so gross. I couldn’t even hang out with her anymore. And that’s not just anecdotal about one person, it happens a lot. This was just a particular person who stands out in my mind because she was otherwise really cool.

Just grow up already. Your pit pubes don’t need to be a political statement.

You have… issues.

[Anonymous]

This thread is hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have armpit hair. We get it. Most people do. It's still not attractive to display.

Discuss.

'Display'? Do they have tiny picture frames installed around their underarm hair? It's not for me but you get to not look.
I hate when people are so close minded they assume someone is doing something for the reason they think, and there may be no reason at all.