I'm fed up with being told hairy is bad.

I hate this!!!!
I shave when I want to shave not when I'm told I need to because my legs are hairy.

I mean I'm not being funny but if we weren't meant to have hair we wouldn't of been fucking born with it!!

My argument with my boyfriend is if your not gonna shave then why the hell should I woman or not hahaha I really don't care

Oh, btw when I do shave I use a Wilkinson sword with the guard wires as everything else gives me a horrid rash so might be worth a try?

Hairy
Just flipping wear the shorts, people don't need to be staring at your legs anyway so serves them right if they do. I've been out today in cropped leggings with about 1/2 cm pit and leg hair because I cba.
I'm trying to psych myself up to go grey. It's hard!

I'vè switched to an electric razor, using the standard wet ones even with foam/gel oil always ends up with ingrowing hairs and itching a few days later!
Might not cut so close but at least my skin thanks me for it.
Still only shave once a fortnight or so, I did try and grow it hoping the bottom half of my legs would match the top where I never shave, it didn't. I.guess that's the price I pay for having thick dark hair on my head, it's the same elsewhere 😕

Posting in solidarity, I wear shorts and summer dresses. I have the triple whammy of social faux pas- fat, pale and hairy! Mostly can't be arsed at all have shaved once to the knees just before went on holiday. I wouldn't get hot and bothered! Go for it!

Hairy Is Not Bad

Despite what they tell you
I'm really not bad
Feminist, hirsute
A little bit Rad
Cast off the shackles
Banish your Bic
Embrace your hirsuteness
Your DH's a Dick
tell him his own legs
are horrid and furry
but yours are divine
love,
a poet
named
Hairy

That's so awful

I shave my legs if I can be bothered which isn't often. I run in short shorts. I have very pale legs. I don't care if other people think I should be tanned and hairless - I have nice legs and feel more comfortable in shorts than in running leggings.

Today after parkrun I went out for breakfast with my friends. In shorts. With hairy pale legs. Didn't put anyone off their food ;)

I can't say I have ever really noticed how hairy a another woman's legs are and even if I did notice I certainly wouldn't think anything! I shave my legs in the summer when I can be arsed but I only do it quickly in the shower so my legs are usually patchy at best and I wear shorts when I want. Your husband is an arse. If my DH ever said anything I'd refuse to shave them again on principle until he removed all his body hair

Still unacceptable

Your leg hair is still part of you.

DP has never called me disgusting BTW - he may not like my body hair, but he draws the line way before calling me disgusting because of it.

OP, that is nothing compared to my legs - and I put on my swimming costume, go to the beach, go to the hotel next door to swim and no-one (apart from DP) has even raised an eyebrow.

DP would like me to shave. DP doesn't have a bald patch on his body apart from his forehead (only slightly exaggerating). I have told him that I will go back to shaving if he can follow my old regime for just a month - ie, because my hair grows fast, shave entire leg and underarm every day. I won't hassle him on bikini line even. Guess how long it's been since I've shaved? 6 years.

DP can't care that much - he's not even shaved once, let alone tried for a month, and no-one else cares..

yes, I would like for this to change too

I will be honest and say I haven't braved the gym or park with unshaven legs. I spent most of my 20s removing arm hair as well - I have a lot of it and it's very dark against olive skin - and now I wish I hadn't done that. I don't do it any more but I still look at it and find it odd, because I got so used to shaving it.

I did have a boyfriend who shaved everything obsessively, if he found a dot of hair about to come through on his leg he would want to tackle it immediately. I didn't mind that that was his preference but I wonder now, 20 years later, if he is still driving himself crazy over it. Sometimes goes with bodybuilding etc so I imagine he is. But I am just so sick of it. Also eyebrows - I have a monobrow and I wish I was I brave enough to leave it.

Don't get me started on the anti-pube thing.

Your husband just said you were disgusting??

I go through phases, shaving not shaving, I go to the gym regularly and wear cropped leggings, sometimes I haven't shaved, I can honestly say nobody cares, I also go swimming without having removed my bikini line hair sometimes, nobody can see it? And if they came close enough to me to inspect my groin area I'd give them a swift kick!

DP has never once told me I'm "disgusting"!! Even if I have a full Bush, legs like the gruffalo and under arm hair you could weave?! Is he always so nasty about things?

I remove all my body hair from the chin down. I get it all waxed and I'm completely hair free for about 2-3 weeks but by week 6 my legs look exactly like yours. Doesn't stop me wearing anything, and I can't say I notice what other women's legs look like either. In fact I mistimed my waxing appointment and have just spent a week in Cornwall walking around in shorts with legs like your picture, I didn't notice anyone recoiling in horror when I walked past.

He is a twat. Does he remove all his leg hair? Besides its just hair

I actually thought about this the other day

When did it become a social norm to remove body hair?

I shave when it annoys me. Sometimes that is because i notice i am hairy sometimes it is because i dont like the feel.

I dont shave because others may not like it unshaven me.