To go swimming without shaving?

[ArriettyMatilda]

I am not a regular shaver. It's time consuming, occasionally itchy during regrowth and I hate myself for feeling like I have to conform to society's expectations plus I'm lazy I really want to take dd swimming more regularly but I really can't be bothered with maintaining a smooth bikini line and legs.

I am well aware that I wouldn't even be asking this if I was a man, but I can't shake the feeling that someone will be disgusted by my hair. I'm so annoyed that I feel like I have to remove part of my body to become an acceptable member of society.

Would you judge me for having hairy legs and hair around my bikini line? If you don't like shaving what do you wear swimming?

Churchill maybe go back and RTFT? HTH

they just know that they go "eewww".

Like this?

to be fair, showing your freshly waxed bikini line in a corporate environment is usually frown upon too...

xForsythia I expect that'd be a quicker exit than the hairy legged one

ok

If I see a candidate with hairy legs, I am not employing her.

It's only a matter of time until you're at the wrong end of a discrimination case then.

xForsythia: I did not report anyone for being "mean" or because I "disagreed with them", I reported them for using a specific word (a common slur term for the mentally ill) that is banned on MN. Hence why MN deleted their post. Why you find that hilarious is beyond me.

xForsythia
As if we didnt have enough misogyny from men!

What the actual freak does having hairy legs have to do with you abilities to do your job?
Do you ask your male colleagues if they have shaved their legs/pits?

You were told off when you were 'a junior' now you are hiring people maybe its time after all these years that women were treated not as a fashion model/clothes horse/arm candy but as a person with a perfectly functioning brain that can work just as well as a man without having to shave her legs (or flash her legs at the clients) to get her brain to work?

Its kinda cool to see all the childish giggling about using ableist language...then the string of deleted posts.

Keep it up, gigglers...sooner or later you'll get banned altogether, and we can go back to grown up talk.

I'm slightly sickened that someone would openly admit to not hiring a woman because they had hair on their legs. That is truly disgusting behaviour and it is even worse that anyone would admit it openly.

Foul.

Maybe you should start changing the world by hiring people with hairy legs if any turn up. I can't imagine noticing how hairy or otherwise my interviewees' legs were. Most wore tights. Some wore trousers.

Jeez, is this still rumbling on. The Great public pube flashing war 2017? 😂

Next up the great showing your arse crack debate, 😂

In the town where I live, it seems that you are in the minority if you do tidy up down there! I have a swimdress and it's great for all manner of issues!

brass brass unless yetis have PUBIC hair all over (because you were the one calling women hairy yetis) you were also referring to other body hair.

We really are going backwards

www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/government-high-heels-employers-women-to-work-inequality

"OvariesBeforeBrovaries Tue 18-Apr-17 22:29:37
Show some respect for other people and yourself

Unless someone's bikini line is shouting "OI YOU FUCKING CUNT" across the pool, it isn't disrespectful towards you."

And this is why Mumsnet needs a like button.

Personally i wouldn't want to see anyone's stray pubes in a swimming pool (has happened before underwater ) but apart from that hairy legs/armpits/anything i say go for it and be comfortable in your natural body!!

Bumping into senior colleagues in my local pool is commonplace for me, as I (and many of the people I work with) live and work in the same area. We are all there to have a swim, not to judge each other's appearance.

OP I wouldn't judge you for having hairy legs or hair round your bikini line.

I go swimming for exercise but also for relaxation. If I found myself getting stressed by other people's pubic hair/swimsuit choices, I would find a new sport, not expect people to adapt their appearance to suit my prejudices.

What happens when there's no line between men's pubes and their leg hair? Anyone cares?

I'm not a lover of pubic hairs peeping out of swimsuits, stubble is fine but long Curley pubes is a big no from me. I often get my bikini on at the pool with a few days stubble, I've not always had the chance to shave and it can cause me to get a rash, I've only ever noticed a lady at the pool once who had really really hairy legs near where her bottom meets her legs, I'm guessing it was somewhere she couldn't see or reach or she was a non shaver, I didn't really judge her, it just made me always double check the back of my legs when shaving!

I went to a pool with diving boards for the first time in 25 years, and I thought of this thread after going off the 3m board....

tbh it was mostly a job off trying to make sure my boobs hadn't been splattered right out of my costume by the impact, but I did also have to unwedgy myself, and, out of consideration for the faint-hearted on this thread, make sure all curly pubes got rehidden.

I read this entire thread last night. I swim almost every day. I never once felt paranoid about any of my pubage escaping and traumatizing unsuspecting members of the public. Until today. Aaaaaarrgghh.