Dec 14 2008
The Pits
I was thinking this morning about the strangest thing, arm pit hair,and why in this country it is such a big deal when, particularly, a female, has or shows hers in public or even in private. so I just feel like ranting about why it’s so taboo, and why women who choose to display it openly are judged so harshly. I myself don’t think there is anything wrong with it but I know others have their own opinion and their welcome to it but I think in a free country a female shouldn’t be made to feel ashamed of her body for any reason, I recall a personal incidence when a woman came to call on a neighbor of ours who unknown to us at the time had committed suicide (we found out later), she stayed a bit and chatted and before she left asked for directions, in the process of giving the directions I lifted my underarm and I recall the look on her still today as I type this, a look of shock and horror as if she had seen a car wreck or something, at first I was confused and I was thinking to myself what is her deal why in the middle of a conversation she would gasp and behave that way but later after she left it finally dawned on me what the likely culprit was and then I was shocked that she would be shocked. I do believe in shaving and all that jazz, for sanitary issues and aesthetic as well, but I also think that in this country we really need to think outside the box on a few more issues, and this is one of them, I shave about 90% of the year, and I tend to take a break in the winter, mainly because I choose too, I used to feel ashamed of this but iv’e made up my mind over the last few years that it is my mind to make up and my body and beside sometimes I think it’s a little sexy.
