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Jun. 29th, 2004 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
froodleSummer is here again, and once more I am forced to abandon my long-sleeved velvet shirts and put aside my trenchcoat, take a deep, calming breathe and liberate my collection of frayed and faded vest-tops from their banishment at the bottom of the airing cupboard. The onset of warmer weather, even in Yorkshire, requires certain fundemental changes. Sunscreen, for a start. A reduction of leather-wearing. And apparently, of body hair.
Never mind that I think shaven armpits look weird (and I'm not even going to start on how unnatural a pale, puffy, protectionless vagina looks). What relevance is it that shaving my pits leaves them itchy and sweaty, not to mention unbearably prickly once the regrowth kicks in? None whatsoever. Because you see, those soft tufts of curly blonde hair under my arms apparently make other people uncomfortable, and after all, isn't it my job to make sure I'm as pleasing as possible to the eyes of complete strangers? God forbid I should make my own decisions about what I am or am not comfortable with. That would imply I had a mind of my own! Apparently, I missed the memo that states that female underarm hair is now completely forbidden (probably becuase it was published in Heat or some equally shitty women's magazine). Silly me for thinking, hey, this is my body, and as such I have complete autonomy over what happens to it. I won't be making that mistake again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to buy a razor. And the next person who dares to tell me what I can and can't do with my fucking armpits is going to get their throat slit with it.
Never mind that I think shaven armpits look weird (and I'm not even going to start on how unnatural a pale, puffy, protectionless vagina looks). What relevance is it that shaving my pits leaves them itchy and sweaty, not to mention unbearably prickly once the regrowth kicks in? None whatsoever. Because you see, those soft tufts of curly blonde hair under my arms apparently make other people uncomfortable, and after all, isn't it my job to make sure I'm as pleasing as possible to the eyes of complete strangers? God forbid I should make my own decisions about what I am or am not comfortable with. That would imply I had a mind of my own! Apparently, I missed the memo that states that female underarm hair is now completely forbidden (probably becuase it was published in Heat or some equally shitty women's magazine). Silly me for thinking, hey, this is my body, and as such I have complete autonomy over what happens to it. I won't be making that mistake again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to buy a razor. And the next person who dares to tell me what I can and can't do with my fucking armpits is going to get their throat slit with it.
