Women Are People Too

having body hair is okay

I know this is a strange way to start, but I've been really thinking about it.

Body hair is socially acceptable...unless you're a woman. I think about myself in all the maintenence I take upon myself to perform in regards to hair to make myself "normal." Which includes but is not limited to - shaving my legs and underarms, waxing my upper lip, plucking my eyebrows, and grooming my private areas.

In the beginning when I first started to shave my legs or underarms in my preteen-ish years, it was just a social norm. That was just something that women were meant to do. Women weren't supposed to have hair in those areas. So I did it, and it made me feel grown up and in the "in crowd" because all my friends starting shaving before my mom let me. Then around junior high, I started to pluck my eyebrows because all the popular girls' eyebrows were nicely shaped and arched and mine didn't do that, and I wanted to be like them. To do what girls my age were supposed to do to make them acceptable.

Now that I'm almost twenty, I've began grooming my private areas. It was a very controversial decision for me. I didn't know if I was supposed to or not. If it was normal to or not. So I did my research. My friends said they did sometimes whether it be due to their time of the month or sexy time with their latest fling. The only thing Google told me was that it was your decion. But you know, it's not really.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why women are told they have to go through all this trouble to remove hair from their bodies; the same hair that men have, but for them it's okay. I don't know how it all started or where it came from, but women should be made to feel beautiful and comfortable in their own skin.

It should totally be up to you how much or how little body hair grooming you do without society having any say. Society likes to tell women that body hair is gross and that they are supposed to be all nice and smooth. Screw them.

On one hand, I don't know where this absurd custom came from but on the other it has become a personal preference of mine. And that should be your decision to make on your own without outside influence forcing your hand. I love when I take time out of my day to do my eyebrows or shave my legs. It makes me feel sexy and empowered. But I don't think women should be shamed for thinking the opposite, for many, body hair is the sexiest and most liberating thing to possess, and if you're one of those people, keep doing you babe.

You are all beautiful no matter what labels society puts on you.

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I know that probably sounded similar to the rantings of a crazy person lol, but I hope you enjoyed it. Comment, vote, and all the things! Thanks for reading, and I hope by writing this "book" I can get people thinking✌

Xx Shannon