FEMINISTS AND BODY HAIR ~ a thread
Body hair is a beauty standard, not a hygenic standard. This shift of norm was just another way to exert unreasonable and baseless male dominance onto women. These beauty practices like shaving your hair are portrayed as optional, (1/n)

but in reality how free are we to make these choices? Society has created a need for women to look a certain way and if it doesn't fit their narrative you're shamed and humiliated, and it gets to the point it causes nb/trans folkx dysphoria. If they fail to oppress you by (2/n)

selling the idea of an ideal woman who you look up to, they make it about feminists acting out by looking "unhygienic". This creates shame towards something that comes so naturally to us, and men as well, yet it's not as stigmatized for them, often sexualised too. (3/n)

if you actually cared about hygiene you'd know that it's safe, if not more healthy to have body hair than not. You make beauty about Shraddha Kapoor flaunting flawless skin in her Veet commercials as a portrait of a confident woman who removes her hair to to look beautiful, (4/n)

of a woman who "chooses" to not be ugly. What a fucking scam. Beauty isn't a choice, it's a set of immoral and baseless expectations imposed on women merely, creating an illusion of choice, only to use it to opress them further. fin. (5/n)

also, hope y'all know that armpit hair helps reduce body odours because hair is porous and readily absorbs odours. gtfo my post with your smelly shaved pits.