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In many ways I am a bad feminist. I am only a person doing her best and sometimes I don\u2019t do my best. If I was the perfect feminist I wouldn\u2019t compare myself to other girls like it\u2019s a competition where out of 5 billion only one of us can be smart, funny, pretty, and cool. If I was a perfect feminist I wouldn\u2019t roll my eyes when a beautiful, skinny, clear skinned, woman complains because somehow in my mind being beautiful somehow absolves you of being a victim of awful, terrible men.
\nIn an attempt to be vulnerable on this blog I want to give anyone that reads this a peek behind the curtain and while I try my best to come off as a super smart and witty woke person I still have a lifetime of self reflection to go.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I shave<\/h2>\n

In classic annoying feminist fashion I do love being able to flash my grown out armpits to my father and when he winces like I\u2019ve shown him a horrifying wound I can ask, \u201cWhy is it gross? Is your armpit hair gross?\u201d And the answer to that is and will always be, \u201cBut you\u2019re a girl!\u201d<\/p>\n

Like any woke modern 21st century couple my boyfriend and I have had the hair talk and because he is a real man<\/em> body hair doesn\u2019t bother him. My hair doesn\u2019t bother me either; it’s actually a million times more bothersome to shave than it is to let it grow. That being said I am still guilty of shaving for the weekends I know my boyfriend and I will be seeing each other. And I\u2019ve driven myself crazy thinking about this. Why do I (the most insufferable feminist I know)<\/em> participate in this patricarical standard? I certainly don\u2019t expect my boyfriend to shave for me but the thought of seeing him with my grown out leg hair literally makes me feel sick.<\/p>\n

Possible hypotheses I\u2019ve come up with include:<\/p>\n

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  1. I have politicized my body to be a statement against patriarchy rather than just a body that has hair that grows and therefore I\u2019ve used my body as a tool to upset men more than just exist as it is.<\/li>\n
  2. I still haven\u2019t shaken the shame of being a young girl that was taunted and teased from missing a spot when shaving aND NOW ALL THE BOYS IN MY MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM CLASS CAN SEE THE PATCH OF HAIR ON MY LEG.<\/li>\n
  3. Maybe\u2026I like shaving.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Honestly when I\u2019m not tortured by shaving my body every day I think it\u2019s kind of\u2026relaxing. When the pressure of having to do it everyday is alleviated I do think it\u2019s nice to have a self-care day and shave, do a facemask, drink some water, yada-yada. This also gets into the topic of Choice Feminism<\/strong><\/a>. Do I really truly and undyingly like being hairless or have I been conditioned to think that I want it?<\/p>\n

    There are a million different directions the shaving conversation can go. We could discuss the trope in media of women living in a post apocalyptic world with wounds amongst their perfectly smooth legs. The Pink Tax is also a huge problem for women. The origins of women shaving come directly from 20th century American capitalism- and if there’s something I hate more than men it’s capitalism.<\/p>\n

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    I\u2019m not offended or disgusted when I see a man\u2019s unruly pit but I also can\u2019t help but think about how much nicer it would look bare.<\/p>\n

    Maybe\u2026everyone should start shaving. Maybe capitalism wins this time.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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