If that is her preference, so what? If you bathe, you won't smell, hair or not. Sometimes it's good to question societal conventions. Good for her for having the courage to do just that.
Americans are always so quick to judge other cultures. That is what is "gross."
Woman Goes 18 Months Without Shaving Armpits: Gross or Great?
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If there's one beauty ritual that almost all women partake in, it's shaving their armpits while they're in the shower. But graduate student Emer O'Toole from Dublin decided to examine why she felt she had to be hair-free -- and stopped shaving 18 months ago, The Daily Mail reports.
"I started examining my own relationship with my body, and my body hair," she told "This Morning." She continued, "Why did I feel I had to shave? I thought back to when I first started shaving. When I sprouted hair at 14, I didn't think, 'Will I shave or not?' I just knew I had to shave it off."
Over a year later, O'Toole says she's mostly OK with her armpit and leg hair. "Over the past 18 months, if I've felt awkward in a certain outfit that shows my hairy armpits, I've started to examine where my confidence comes from. If it's my looks, and my self-esteem is linked to that, then I've realized I need to find other sources for that confidence. Your looks aren't with you when you wake up in the morning if you have to put your makeup on first. And they don't stay with you as you age."
Over a year later, O'Toole says she's mostly OK with her armpit and leg hair. "Over the past 18 months, if I've felt awkward in a certain outfit that shows my hairy armpits, I've started to examine where my confidence comes from. If it's my looks, and my self-esteem is linked to that, then I've realized I need to find other sources for that confidence. Your looks aren't with you when you wake up in the morning if you have to put your makeup on first. And they don't stay with you as you age."
And she says guys are totally fine with her fuzzy pits, but women are pretty grossed out by it. Do you think women should feel free to go without shaving their armpits? Or is it a beauty must-do?
How'd you reach that conclusion?
It's nasty. Maybe in countries where it's the norm, they are used to it, but here in the states it doesn't fly.
Okay, I left one sector of men out that might like it. Burned-out, old, hippy-leftovers from the sixties. There ... feel better?
If you want to grow your pit hair out, more power to you. But you can't will men to like it because you want them to.
Jokes aside, though. Personally, I consider it a bad form of hygiene choice. Perhaps if she trimmed it to help with attractiveness, such as beards and private areas. But just "letting it go", no. It's disgusting as we are all aware that humans sweat...some for profusely than others. She may take showers more often to compensate (I can only hope), but nonetheless, I suspect there is also a factor of laziness in her decision as well.