Posted on 11/24/2017 12:39:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Thanks to our society’s narrow standards of beauty, women are expected to have no body hair whatsoever (except, of course, on their head). But after being fed up with how much time it took to shave, one fitness blogger decided to throw away her razor and embrace her natural beauty instead.
In a YouTube video that has now been viewed more than 460,000 times, Morgan Mikenas revealed that she hasn’t shaved her legs or armpits in over a year!
“The purpose of this video is not to shame people who do shave,” Mikenas wrote in the video's info section. “I just want to speak on how it’s helped me become more comfortable within myself, and maybe inspire others to do something that makes them feel confident.”
In the 12-minute clip, Mikenas revealed that at around age 11 or 12, she was bullied for having hairy legs at gym class. She then went home crying and asked her mother to teach her how to shave.
“That’s when it all began,” she said.
Mikenas — who initially stopped shaving because “it just took so much time” — then went on to call out North American society’s ridiculous beauty standards.
After she started letting her body hair grow out last year, Mikenas recalled working in childcare where she took kids swimming once a week. Unfortunately, the children’s reactions to her body hair appalled her.
“I got these little kids who are in kindergarten and first grade harassing me and telling me, ‘Oh my god, you look like a man. You didn’t shave!’” she said. “This is the reaction I’m getting from little kids. What does that say if that is how these kids are being taught?”
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Keh-Keh-Keh-Keven Keh-Keh-Keh-Kline is hot.
;)
*i
Breast hair is something inexperienced guys do *not* expect starting out.
Maybe he will speak Russian to you!
No but a campfire girl in Aviano named “cave woman” could have been “that’s” identical twin .... scared the crap out of me with that picture ....:o)
Heh, she was a bit of a legend, that’s for sure.
Oooooo!
[wait, that was Cleese]
I thought they both did it...:)
My wife teases me sometimes “Speak Russian to me!”
LOL
Kinky wife.
It’s a blessing.
:)
Her only problem is that she has very dark body hair.
For whatever freakish, genetic reason, mine tends towards extreme blonde/transparent.
I have ‘hairy forearms’ but unless you touch them, you wouldn’t know, as the hair is so light and fine, it’s sort of not really visible.
My second cousin once became annoyed by her arm hair and shaved it all off.
About two days later, it was nearly impossible not to scream and recoil in horror when she accidentally touched me and the spiky stubble touched my skin.
And it grew back dark, instead of the blonde it was before.
I have very little leg hair and could basically just pluck them, if I didn’t want to shave them.
I reckon my real opinion of all this, is, holy cow she sure has a lot of leg hair...and it’s everywhere...in places I *never* had leg hair.
So...
o.O
Subservience to the husband, pain in childbirth.
No mention of body hair.
:)
Back in the dim and distant past, all those smells served a purpose, mostly sexual in nature.
Then soap happened.
Then perfume happened.
Eventually, men smelled like women.
Kinda makes you wonder if ‘gay’ isn’t related to an abundance of perfumed dudes.
:D
LOL I know was just saying...
Ponder that our hairs serve the same purpose as whiskers on critters.
Maybe they were meant to be “curb feelers” to keep us from cracking our shins, after all.
:)
A fun thread, is this.
Weird...but fun.
[no one has mentioned the guys who want women as “bald” as 10 year old girls...now *that* is creepy]
:D
can she get a brazilian on her armpits and legs... or laser?
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