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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.