queen-of-mists:

hydrnga:

if a girl doesnt want hair on her vagina, arms or face shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. if a girl doesnt mind having hair on her vagina, arms or face shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. a girl can literally do whatever the fuck she wants and she doesnt need you complaining about something that has no affect on you

the problem with thinking like this is that no woman would want to remove the hair from her body if it were not for the intense conditioning she goes through from the day she is born. this conditioning tells her that her natural body is: unnatural, dirty, unhygienic, exists for male pleasure, and either ‘too much’ or ‘not enough;’ while the male body on its own is considered ideal. women are conditioned to spend money and time on molding our bodies to a particular ideal that exists for that very purpose: our obedience. we are conditioned to despise and be disgusted by our natural bodies as one (terrifyingly powerful) facet of a system that feeds on women’s subservience.

as for the ‘it doesn’t affect you’ argument, heads up: it does. every time a woman sees another woman hairless, or makeup-d, or groomed to the point that her natural body is hidden, she receives the message ‘that is what a real woman looks like.’ every time we receive this message, the conditioning self-perpetuates: we hate ourselves more, and we spend more time, energy and money on sculpting our bodies within an inch of their natural appearance. every time a man sees a hairless, makeup-d woman, who he knows to have done these things for his pleasure, he receives the message ‘women are inferior. women are inherently wrong, and they exist to please me. hey, she CHOSE to!’

critical thinking y'all. nothing’s going to change if you don’t use your brain.