AIBU to think armpit hair is a moral issue?

[ICBINEG]

How did it come to pass that the natural appearance of an adult woman has become socially unacceptable?

Adult women have hair on their arms, legs, fanjo and (if you can bear the disgustingness of it all) armpits.

In a not at all surprising turn of events the natural appearance of an adult male is still considered attractive including (god forbid) hairy legs, arms, balls and armpits.

Why have we adopted a prepubescent look as the optimum for women but mysteriously not done the same for men?

AIBU to next shave myself when shaving becomes compulsory for EVERYONE and not just those without a Y chromosome?

Observation of my SIL suggests it can take over a year to unlearn the societal conditioning and start seeing your own hairy armpits as attractive....a whole year to stop thinking the natural female form is repulsive....AIBU in thinking that society is totally fucked up?

To bow to conformity?
Yet we're expected to conform to what people in this topic want us to do.

Wheres the choice there? You have to accept that not everyone does it to fit in.

Also I read in another topic a woman say her husband shaves because she likes it. This was met with no animosity. Funny....

O.P and others of that ilk, the "My Body, My Business" slogan goes for you too.

I don't see what's so contentious about what the OP is saying.

Not particularly contentious BOF.
I just don't like being lectured to because I have a different POV.

panicking you are correct I do not do fashion, high heels makeup etc. I am strongly of the opinion that women are just as attractive in their natural state as men are. Ff men aren't going to be forced into a 2 hour beauty regime before society views them as fit to be scene in public than neither am I.

Because I am actually worth it as I am.....and so are you guys btw.

We do know that.

I just like bright colours dyes hair purple and puts on rainbow eyeshadow

Natural is what you prefer
It doesn't make you better or imply others don't know their worth
Natural is an annoying word and can be used to make women feel bad about themselves too. Some women are devastated absolutley devastated to not have a 'natural birth' when really it wasn't the est option for them

So you do what you do
And don't get so judgy on others

Also the thread title is fucked up
Moral issue?
Moral??????

I think you mean feminist.

To say moral issue implies those who don't agree with you lack morals

I agree Kayano.
There's a few threads like this popping up at the moment.
Moral issue my arse.

Agreed with the above two posters.

ha ha ha...natural is a word to make women feel bad about themselves? ha ha ha ha...

see I find that words like beautiful, pretty, princess, WAG, designer, fashion, stunning, curvaceous, sexy and glamorous are words that make you feel bad...or at least that you aren't good enough...when coupled as they so often are with images of the unattainable airbrushed type.

It is not that being shaved or not is a moral issue...of course it isn't. It is that allowing societal pressure to build to the point that half of said societies members hate their own natural physical appearance is a moral issue.

So "It is not that being shaved or not is a moral issue...of course it isn't." AIBU resolved. Fantastic.

My armpit hairs have morals - they absolutely oppose genocide in all its forms. No question. They also buy fairtrade & try to remain monogomous (it's hard for them though, constantly mingling with all the other hairs).

They're also currently about an inch long (my pubes? They're somewhere round my knees).

I fucking well shave my legs though, no-one needs to see <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=1.bp.blogspot.com/_B6J6nGs6VwA/SM0rczMyc_I/AAAAAAAAG80/Kb2N6Vb3Xpo/s400/Gucci%2Bblack%2Balpaca%2Bsnow%2Bboots%2Bblueflycom.jpg&imgrefurl=couturecarrie.blogspot.com/2008/09/shagadelic.html&h=400&w=333&sz=16&tbnid=EGd6ffTnqgM1_M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=75&zoom=1&usg=__CrlukKHqlTiTNTpMaTpunEbVqnA=&docid=Zr_Cc2FV8443FM&sa=X&ei=t1ZTUN2RCaqr0QWq-YGgDA&ved=0CCkQ9QEwAg&dur=385" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this

But I like mascara & occasionally dye my grey.

So I give my body hairs equal opportunites, depending on how I, yes I feel.

I leave everyone else to their own devices.

Icbineg

I did not say that natural is a word that makes women feel bad about themselves

I said that in some instances the pressure to be natural can be detrimental to women in other situations (such as birth - lets not forget that crazy bitch on tv a while ago who said a mother who had a c section would never have te same bond with her child)

So don't twist my words and grow up

And it's still not a 'moral issue'

It is a 'feminist issue'

Are feminist and moral mutually exclusive then? I will meet you in the middle if you agree it is a moral feminist issue.

You're forcing them together. No one said they were mutually exclusive. I'm sure a lot of feminist issues are moral ones too. This isn't one of those.