• St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    54·
    2 months ago

    Alright, now that it’s been brought up, can I just ask whether anyone else is tired of this obsession with shaving? I’m on the other side of the aisle and I can’t understand how hairlessness is meant to be attractive, pleasant to maintain, or (and this is the weirdest one) tactful. Women have body hair. Why it in vogue to pretend they don’t?

    I shave my foot hair, but only because it catches on my socks. I’ve heard exactly one woman complaining about groin hair catching on fabric and that was because it had been shaved recently.

    Women deserve body hair and large pants pockets, but that’s just my political opinion.

  • brookedSmile@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    Honestly starting to shave more and more areas has made me hate body hair more and more. Idk why, but any hair that isnt my eyebrows or on top of head drives me absolutely insane now. It gets to be much to shave everything all the time, i do it in cycles. If i never grew it again, id be a happy girl

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Protip from a formerly hairy woman - get waxed every month for at least a year (I did it for 2 years), and the hair grows back much softer … now I shave my legs once a week, and it’s quick and easy :-)

      Edit: get it waxed by a pro, don’t try and do it at home

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I have waxed at home, but I can concur with this. Shaving leaves the tips of hair sharp, but when it grows in from the root it gets a fine, naturally-tapered tip that makes it feel softer.

        Which is part of why the myth of “if you shave your hair, it will come back thicker” is so prevalent. The hair doesn’t permanently change texture from shaving, it’s just that once you get into a habit of doing it regularly, it will feel rough all the time because of it.

        • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Not just that, waxing damages the roots and weakens them, making the hair grow back finer

          The same thing can bite you in the ass if you over-pluck your eyebrows

    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Are you familiar with epilators? Not pleasant to use at first but extremely effective

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I have one I have used twice because the fear of giving myself cancer freaks me the hell out. I have no idea if that fear is founded, it was just an epiphany I had.

        • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Zero risk of cancer, all it does is pull hairs out by the root the same as tweezers or wax. Not that I don’t understand the apprehension after having used it the first time, epilators hurt viciously but they get the job done quickly and consistently with minimal prep or cleanup.

            • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Fair, they do have a bunch of different IPL and laser products and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them could give you cancer

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      So, I am a dude, thus take this with a grain of salt perhaps, but:

      Find you a person who will be excited to, and capable of safely shaving/trimming you.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          I mean, I’ve groomed some of my partners, some of them have groomed me.

          So… yes?

          There is at least one person?

          Maybe I am very strange, I am autistic, so social norms are basically all arbitrary performances to me, but it seems to just make sense?

          I’m fairly sure this is also a behavior that is done by a good deal of our ape ancenstors, mammals more broadly: Grooming and cleaning another is itself a kind of social bond, a way to establish and demonstrate trust and care.

          It also just saves money; if you have or can teach a partner how to do things like… haircut touchups, eyebrow shaping, basic mani/pedicure type stuff, whatever, now you don’t need to spend money on something you’d normally have to pay someone else to do.

          And you can just like, have a conversation while doing this. Quality time, lol!

          Works super duper well if one of your ‘love languages’ is just any kind of caring/affirmatory physical touch.

  • redbrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Very interesting…can they reach down that far??? I mean that distance looks almost a full body length from this perspective.

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Ive watched these mosquitos. They land on top of the body hair, and then quickly climb down to the skin level, maybe taking a split second to do so.

      Sometimes that’s enough of a delay to detect and swat them.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Bugs, in general, can they bite you anywhere?

      Basically yes, depending on the clothes you’re wearing, the position you’re in, the climate/biome you live in.

      Sand fleas, at a nudist beach.

      A person sleeping nude in an area that’s got lots of bugs, etc.

      You’ve decided to go camping, where bugs exist.

      …etc.

      Let me just tell you that bed bugs fucking suck.

      Like, figuratively and literally.

      Ain’t everybody got enough money to live in a decently maintained residence or building or… county or city.