I always laugh at these threads, as someone who spent many years with long acrylics (and the only reason I no longer have them is because I kept snapping them in work due to the job being “hands on”).
Having acrylics is just as sanitary as having short nails. You still wash your hands. If anything your nails are typically “cleaner” day to day as you can’t use your nails in the same way as you would short, natural nails. If your nails are dirty then you aren’t washing your hands enough!
It takes a day or two to get used to typing with them but it’s a very easy adjustment. You end up angling your finger tips slightly flatter- that’s all there is to it.
And regarding the “wiping your bum” comments… I don’t know about you but I’ve never needed my nails to wipe my arse… you hold the paper at a slightly different angle. Never ever had any “accidents” in that regard.
So what this thread really comes down to is personal preference and snobbery, really.
You don’t have to like them. As I said, the only reason I no longer have them is because they do, unfortunately, have a higher chance of cracking if you have them over a certain length and you use your hands a lot day to day. And sometimes that crack can be quite far down your nail bed, which is agonising. It can take a few months for the “crack” to grow out.
That is a perfectly valid reason for not liking them, unlike a lot of what has been aforementioned on this thread.
It would be really lovely if women could support other women’s’ choices to do whatever they like to their bodies, though. What nails someone has, what colour their hair is, what tattoos you have, etc- it’s really none of your business. You don’t have to like it but you also don’t need to make shitty little threads online trying to bring people down for something that clearly makes them feel good about themselves.
It just shows you to be a very judgemental, snobbish person. Certainly not someone I’d want to associate with.