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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Everything about you and your body is disgusting.

115 replies

MyTaxiIsAlwaysLate · 30/04/2019 17:22

Everything about you and your body is disgusting.

Sincerely,
Buzfeed.

www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/how-many-of-these-secret-gross-girl-things-have-you-done?bfsource=relatedauto

How Many Of These Secret Gross Girl Things Have You Done, Really?
We're all a little bit gross.

Plucked your nipple hair.

Continued to wear pants that have period blood on them,.

got your pubes trapped in your pads wings,.

bled on to your sheets a TINY bit but were too tired to change them ASAP

Only shaved bits of skin that would show.

Worn a pair of underwear even when you couldn't get the period stains out.

OP posts:
floraloctopus · 01/05/2019 01:49

nothing worse than trapping some pubes in a popper.

Clearly you have never caught them in the zip of some new jeans. Double agony. I never did work out what to say to the neighbours who knocked on the door to check everything was OK.

Greeborising · 01/05/2019 02:00

I can honestly say I’ve never done any of those things.
Fuck me im fucking perfect 😇

StopThePlanet · 01/05/2019 02:12

I can honestly say I’ve never done any of those things. Fuck me im fucking perfect 😇

Snort lmao, thanks I needed more coffee in my sinus today - no really! 😆

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 01/05/2019 07:33

I stopped shaving my pits at 14 after being struck with admiration for French girls with lots of black underarm hair. I've never shaved since. But it turns out I hardly have any hair there so it's not the bold statement I intended.

BeansandRice · 01/05/2019 08:28

Tagging on to the OP - the Buzzfeed writer seems (from the summary, I'm not succumbing to clickbait) to be rather weirdly obsessed by period blood. It's just blood. The article looks a bit perverted.

Has that young pillar of the community Jessica Yaniv started writing for them?

(warning on googling the name I cite - the results are NSFW)

Whatisthisfuckery · 01/05/2019 08:34

Ok confession time.

When I was in my early teens I was chewing gum in the bath, as you do. Somehow I dropped the gum out of my mouth and it landed in my pubes. Fucking hell did it hurt trying to get that out. I had to get the scissors in the end and cut it out. Do not, and I repeat do not, put chewing gum anywhere near your pubic hair.

VickyEadie · 01/05/2019 10:51

FermatsTheorem

I don't know how old you are, but since the menopause (I'm now 60), I have developed Denis Healey eyebrow tendencies where there were none before.

Also post-menopause: pube explosion. And they're growing in places they never did before...

LangCleg · 01/05/2019 10:55

But it turns out I hardly have any hair there so it's not the bold statement I intended.

HA! Snap! I've only got child-like wispy leg hair as well. So my Hairy Statement has never been much of a statement.

FermatsTheorem · 01/05/2019 11:23

Post menopause too Vicky, though Dennis (is it wrong to give a rogue hair a name?) has been around for quite a while. My pubes are going to the other post menopausal extreme and thinning so I'm in camp "hairy pits not making quite as much of a political statement as I'd hoped" Grin

hipsterfun · 01/05/2019 13:18

Every day’s a school day on MN!

[takes notes re likely future nature and distribution of body hair]

TheGoalIsToStayOutOfTheHole · 01/05/2019 15:16

Sounds about right, but not clicking the link as basically, they will just do more articles like this as they reckon its the shit people want to read. Telling women they are vile for being women..

BeansandRice · 01/05/2019 17:13

VickyEadie I'm your age, and Ive found that I have less body hair on legs, armpits, and pubic area, but the chin & neck hairs drive me to distraction! I pluck every day. Sometimes I think it would be easier just to shave my chin ... I'm blonde & very fair-skinned so the black fuckers really show up.

VickyEadie · 01/05/2019 17:18

BeansandRice

Strange, isn't it, how we're all responding differently to menopause? I'm very dark-haired and have not been very troubled at all by facial hair (I've never had the nipple issue) and my legs from the knees downwards are definitely getting less hairy.

Knees upwards? I'm like the fucking Yeti woman.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 01/05/2019 17:35

I love the idea of ‘Carrie’ bedsheets. In our house I cheerfully announce the arrival of “lady-time” by telling DP it’s time to ring Moses, the Red Sea is approaching...!

StopThePlanet · 01/05/2019 18:08

kalinkafoxtrot45

I love the idea of ‘Carrie’ bedsheets.

This way you keep nice sheets nice (ours aren't colorful but light blues and grays) and "Carrie" sheets still look nice because dark colors hide the tide of menses hurricanes or tsunamis or however yours present. 🤓

In our house I cheerfully announce the arrival of “lady-time” by telling DP it’s time to ring Moses, the Red Sea is approaching...!

😂

StopThePlanet · 01/05/2019 23:19

Whatisthisfuckery

Gum in pubes 🤣 I think I love you 😆

Antibles · 01/05/2019 23:28

fuckery that's cracked me up Grin

barelove · 02/05/2019 02:51

Discrete for merging with your current bedding - not when you’ve got a thing for Cath Kidston florals and vintage candlewick bedspreads it isn’t!

That's hilarious! Grin

barelove · 02/05/2019 03:04

Dohh Blush I hardly ever post and when I do it's so often in response to something several pages back, either because I forget to turn the page or because I'm so bloody slow at typing.

I used to be able to french plait my lush thick black pubes all down my vulva to my but. Like some kind of au naturale chastity belt.

51 now and I could barely muster a comb over down there.

StopThePlanet · 02/05/2019 04:38

barelove

😂❤️

startrek90 · 02/05/2019 11:14

Am I the only one who doesn't have nipple hair? I checked and I got nothing. Saying that maybe that hair migrated to my feet or my chin...

barelove · 02/05/2019 13:18

ByGrabtharsHammarWhatASaving

I did exactly this throughout my twenties. Pale skin, dark body hair and lots of it due to pcos. I shaved one day after a massive critic attack and was super surprised when a women I barely knew practically cried when she saw me. She'd been a child model and was very body conscious and said that she'd always seen me as something to aspire to one day for herself. She saw me as an example of what it is to be a women comfortable in her own skin without having to compromise to be accepted. So yeah, it can feel liberating to go unshaven and it can definitely support other women to find their own freedom from the oppression of the razor!

Thanks for reminding me that there can be more to it than just a personal preference. Hairy sisters unite! (like velcro Grin)

Badgerthebodger · 02/05/2019 13:47

Posh club Grin

Thisnamechanger · 02/05/2019 13:56

This thread is a winner

BettyFilous · 02/05/2019 20:18

Am I the only one who doesn't have nipple hair? I checked and I got nothing. Saying that maybe that hair migrated to my feet or my chin...

I am the same - all the action is happening on my chin.