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The argument ‘why is it there then?’ is still flawed, even if you are sHoCkEd by an argument by comparison.
It's perfectly understandable if you have any nuance. "Why does it grow there [as a design aspect of your body]"
Yeah, the third post is "Local Tumblr User Doesn't Understand Reductio ad Absurdum; More at 11."
The user isn't saying leg hair is like cancer (like fucking obviously; how disingenuous would you be to even suggest that?). They're saying the argument of "it wouldn't grow there if it wasn't supposed to" is completely stupid – that it has little discriminative power to distinguish what's good and bad if you don't already know. It isn't even nearly limited to the absurdity of that contradictory example:
"Sorry, honey, but the dick cheese wouldn't be there if it wasn't supposed to."
It's a fine-ish retort to get a seven-year-old to chill out, but it's total bullshit when you don't already know leg hair on women is fine. Pointing out that "Gravity is real because most people think it is" is a bad argument by saying "Germs didn't exist because most people thought they didn't" doesn't mean I'm trying to deny gravity is real; I'm pointing out the argument doesn't hold water regardless of what the fallacy (in the OP's case, a pretty clear appeal to nature) was supporting.
TL;DR: Denying the means, not the conclusion.
Ok, but as long as the hair isn’t actually doing anything then what’s the problem? Cancer kills you and dick cheese is fucking nasty as hell(especially in the context of expexting someone to allow it into their body). Excessive, unwashed body hair that is producing an odor is nasty because it affects other people and cannot be easily ignored, but someone saying “that’s gross because now I don’t find you attractive” does not deserve any more of an answer than “go fuck yourself.” That kid’s question got a better answer than it warranted.
You write a lot for someone who doesn’t understand communication.
The fact you read that and couldn't even grasp that there fucking is no problem with leg hair and I'm not saying there is one and I even directly said "leg hair on women is fine" is just *chef's kiss* You missed the excruciatingly obvious point of the entire comment – for which apparently even "a lot" of unambiguous clarification wasn't enough. Fucking Mordecai'd that shit.
Who exactly doesn't understand communication here? The one who thinks 200 words is "a lot" of writing?
I think the motivation for the second comment in the screenshot is what is really in contention here. Personally, I read the second comment as an assertion that, similar to tumors, women are not supposed to have body hair even if it grows on them.
Now that doesn’t mean I think you’re incorrect. Just the other commenter was picking up on something else in the post.
It's not impossible that they are, but given there's a perfectly logical and highly plausible explanation that they're making a perfectly cogent point (because the argument is severely flawed, and they point out the flaw accurately), I choose to not just assume that they're a shitty person who thinks women are icky and need to shave their legs or they're gross – like the third comment from "geekandmisandry" (really self-reporting the bias there) does instead of just... asking them to clarify.
The majority of men do expect and prefer that women are shaved, thus the assumption.
You know, I wasn't going to call it out in my original comment because it was beside the overall point, but "geeksandmisandry" and now you are interestingly assuming the gender of an anonymous user with a default pfp and the gender-neutral username "dinogatrr".
I don't think even if they were a man that this would be a good reason to assume they're a shitty person (especially because the sample of "men on Tumblr" is going to be vastly different than "men overall" or even "men on social media overall"). But it is an interesting assumption on top of an assumption. They're a man, and they're a shitty person who thinks women's legs are naturally icky.
It’s from experience. Having moved through this world as a woman, these types of views primarily come from men. I’ve had women call out my body hair before because women work to uphold the patriarchy as well.
The phrasing and casual belief that even though women grow body hair it should be seen like cancer and taken off of the body sounds like a man to me.
I’m happy to stand corrected, but I’m also not dumb enough to ignore the teachings I’ve gleaned from living as a woman.
Which is easy to say when your hypothesis is functionally unfalsifiable (used heuristically in support of another functionally unfalsifiable hypothesis).
I can't stop you from believing it; I can push back and say it's vibes on top of vibes to legitimize your assumption about a random person you've never spoken to who said something that's totally benign and entirely correct unless you actively ascribe malice to it.
I do tend to assume that men I don’t know are malicious as a baseline because they are a danger to women.
Against my better judgment regarding double standards, I'm going to treat this legitimately unexpected level of misandry with kid gloves compared to how I'd treat even garden-variety misogyny and say that I hope you find peace with any trauma that may have led you to this point. Sincerely, no smarm, no "bless your heart" condescension – I understand what it is to be burdened with a lifetime of systemic distrust through no fault of your own.
Still, there's nothing more I can say to a closed loop of "men are assumed malicious and a man probably made this statement because this statement is misogynistic and the statement is assumed misogynistic because a man made it and if a man made it then surely it's misogynistic [...]". Even though we irreconcilably disagree, I appreciate your polite candor about why you feel the way you do.
Prejudice is bad and should be avoided.
And men I don’t know also pose the greatest risk to me as a woman. It is what it is.
The more accurate question being asked is "Why is body hair supposed to grow on men, but not on women?"
It is?
Ask 100 women what they think of facial hair on men.
Heyyyy turns out when you ask 100 women what they think of facial hair on men, they overwhelmingly prefer it.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-attraction-doctor/201607/do-women-prefer-men-with-beards
ZZ Top wasted a lot of money on dressing sharp when it was the beards all along.
But not a lot on sunglasses.
Hahahaha
Interesting, and I'm frankly surprised by it.
Still, there are women who don't prefer it, which makes the point.
Men and women have preferences, we can choose to accommodate that as we (as individuals) wish.
No one holds a gun to anyone's head and says "shave or else".
Fuck, what man is going to know it a woman shaves her legs unless he's intimate with her anyway?
You’ve never seen a woman’s bare legs in public before?
Do you live in Saudi Arabia or are you legally blind? Shorts exist.
Were you aware that the face and legs are two separate parts of the body?
Really? I had no fucking idea.
The point that you completely glossed over is that women have preferences, some like facial hair some don't.
So men have or don't shave their faces accordingly (or according to what they prefer).
That's all. Go ahead and get up on your cross now because women shave because men somehow make them.
If some unknown man can make you do something, you have a problem.
We’re talking about society treating leg hair on women as abnormal. If you want to see if there’s a societal double standard there then you need to ask how society looks at men’s legs, not their faces.
lol?
Oh silly us, it’s actually women’s fault that the patriarchy forces societal standards on women.
Ask 100 men what they think of hairy legs on women.
There's a reason that there is a skirt mentioned as being worn by the babysitter in the story.
Please don't sit here and pretend that the body hair standard for women and men in western society is at all similar.
Why isn't it?
It's up to you to choose what you want. If a man doesn't shave and a woman doesn't find that attractive... You do the math.
Hell, again, a man won't know a woman doesn't shave her legs unless he's intimate with her anyway.
And then it's between them. It's none of our concern.
What's the opposite of observant? Because whatever that is, you are.
Trust, there’s a lot of people every day that see my body hair and I’m not being intimate with them.
.... are you maybe teensy weensy stoned right now? Baked like a potato? Lit like a Christmas tree? Toasted? Zooted? Zonked? Roasted? Lil bit stoney baloney?
As the 100th man, the more hair on people the better.
Your feelings are valid, I just don't get to bust this one out too often. Couldn't pass it up.
If only your opinion was the majority!
Found the furry.