The Double Standard For Shaving is Real
To all the boys who feel uncomfortable when women choose not to shave: I was standing in line about to order my food, when a good friend of mine started joking around with me. Eventually things spiraled out of control, and he commented on the peach fuzz above my lip. This would have been passable; except he then followed his joke by directing me to shave it off. I was embarrassed, insecure and left feeling unattractive and unwanted. Months had passed when I finally reminisced on the incident with questionability. Why did I feel unattractive? Why did this boy tell me how to maintain my body? Why is body hair such a controversial and shameful experience for females? I realized that women are under relentless pressure to shave. Background I know, I know, this issue of women shaving is so deeply embedded in American values that even some girls gasp at the thought of letting their hair grow out! In order to understand where this ‘trend’ of gende...