#never have armpit hair

[rebeljyn-moved]

Had to rant and it got long so I’ll put it under a cut

Whenever someone says they’re sooo happy that a female character is “strong and still feminine” as if that was something that was so unheard of it pisses me off lmao WHERE exactly are you seeing strong masculine women in media? Where are the tall buff masculine women you’re implying is the standard? The only character I can think of that fits that description and isn’t absurdly stereotyped is Vi from Arcane. That’s IT.

There’s barely any short haired women in media already and the ones that exist are basically all feminine in all other aspects. The more ““masculine”” characters are put either into the category of the man hating lesbian or the not-like-other-girls girl who gets a makeover at the end.

Literally the price female characters pay for having any kind of strength is to be feminine and palatable to the men watching… that’s literally what they did to Leia when they put her into that horrendous sex slave fantasy outfit. That’s what they did to Black Widow. And even with less obviously sexualized characters, specially in superhero themed media, they’re always the beauty standard. And even then they get hate lmao…

Even if a female character is the prettiest woman in the world, the moment she does anything actually human and actually strong that men would love to see in male characters, they get hate. So how in hell do y’all think an actually maculine female character would survive in that environment lmao

Feminine characters are hated for doing things associated with women, but they still fit the physical standard expected of them. Masculine characters are hated for not being hot to men, for not conforming to the body standard, for not wearing make up, for not wearing tight/revealing clothing… for not being women the right way.

I don’t care if you like being feminine and you like to see yourself represented. Do whatever you want and be happy about it. But don’t go around acting like feminine women are the least represented type of woman of all.

[inkskinned]

love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

[nymphaforesta]

i am so happy that i don't feel the need to suddenly shave/trim my armpits if i need to go out just because people might not like me having body hair - now i decide when and how i want to do it, purely based on how I feel.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

"...my one year anniversary being on testosterone!!! I had a vision of capturing my total gender euphoria [...] My trans and nonbinary body is divine I honor my body as it is now, and as it will be as I continue to become more and more myself..."

[raiiny-bay]

redhead......

[jorvikzelda]

….Okay but what if I cut my hair off though

[j00stkl31n]

Do you shave down there?

I don’t shave anything honestly. Too much work, and I like my cute ass bush 🤭

I only really trim so that my cute underwear stays cute lmao. But I never fully shave anything

[brainrotdotorg]

god i am having. a straight up delightful day so far. woke up late, rode my bike to class and didnt get hit by a car, had a nice time in class for once, laid out in the sun in 90 degree heat for no reason! just because I could! and i listened to music for an hour! when i got home i had gotten a letter in the mail! now im eating rice!! maybe I'll eat a cookie next! who knows! life is full of many splendors and I wish it upon everyone!

[treesbian]

being mad at my parents for events long passed hours

[origami-butterfly]

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[thedickcavettshow]

so at work today I’m IDing a bunch of mosquitoes that are going to be used to test a method of extracting DNA to ID what species they are which means my IDs need to be 100% accurate or I’ll completely fuck up the whole experiment which is ummmm a lot of pressure lol

[dashiellqvverty]

tbh i don’t believe ppl who say they shave bc leg hair gives them sensory issues or whatever bc *i* actually get sensory issues from shaving so like. what is the truth.

[chalilodimun]

Thought about this one thing about Hunger Games and I just can't get over it.

In the first book, when Katniss gets her first real public appearance, there's a real highlight made on the fact that she loses control over her body. Not just how she dresses, but how they clean her skin, shave her legs and armpits, (pop her acne?), pluck her eyebrows, and just deep scrub her whole body. And we got deprived of that in the movie although it's such an important moment! Because god forbid we see a woman on screen having leg hair, but god forbid even more we see her in the act of shaving.

It's just another crucial part of the difference between her and the people living in the Capitol. She never had the luxury of time to "take care" of her appearance, she didn't need it. And they take away her consent and forcibly force her to have this "perfect body" because only appearances matter in the Capitol.

And when I read that in middle school, when I was a girl who didn't shave, didn't want to shave, it really resonated with me. And it kind of crushed me a little to see an already perfect Katniss on screen when I was in high school. For me, it was like they took away her normality and she was once again a heroine I couldn't relate to.

[considerad]

shaved my legs so I'm a different person now

[ddejavvu]

would you be up to do bff remus with no boundaries?? i think that would be an interesting dynamic

maybe like after a full moon and she just like fully gives him a shower, or something where he’s just completely naked and the boys are so confused at what’s happening

"Arm up, Rem," You hum, but your fingers pry at his pale, scarred skin before he can even begin moving a muscle.

You lift his bicep away from his side, bringing the lathered loofa in your hand to swipe through the curve of his armpit. Suds slide down his sides and you hear him hiss as they mingle with his still-healing cuts and scrapes, but there's nothing to be done except cleaning them before they can be dressed.

"Easy, easy," You rub a hand over his back in a soothing circle that carefully avoids his injuries, "Just gotta get 'em clean, then we can dress them. You can sleep on your stomach, that'll help the ones on your back. How'd you even get scratches on your back?"

"It's all the ladies I occupy my time with," Remus drawls, but his pain is evident in the weakness of his voice, "Women love werewolves."

When you don't answer, leaving an purposefully awkward silence behind that swirls with the steam from the shower, Remus sighs, "Got all scratched up from the tree branches out there."

You drag the loofa from his side to his back, carefully ghosting over the caked dirt around his wounds. His knuckles turn white as he clenches his fists, but when he tries drawing one into his mouth to bite at it you take it in your own free hand.

"No biting. That's reserved for your better half."

"Are you talking about Sirius, or the wolf? Sirius bites me," Remus grumbles, and- speak of the devil, there's feet pounding obnoxiously up the stairs and towards the dorms.

"Moony, we've got all the chocolate we could carry," Sirius informs him, and there's the sound of wrapped goods being piled on Remus's comforter before James and Sirius step into the doorway of the bathroom.

James lets out an 'ooh' and turns away with a grimace when he sees you kneeled beside Remus's naked form beneath the spray of water, but Sirius stands stock-still, frozen by some mix of intrigue and horror.

"Uh, are we interrupting something?"

"Just a bath," You smile kindly at them, scrubbing gently at Remus's neck, "He has trouble getting his back sometimes."

"Sometimes- have you two done this before?"

"After every moon." You nod helpfully when Remus merely ducks his head to rest between his knees, "You two are usually either asleep or trying to get grass out of your pelts."

There's something green in Sirius's hair that proves the two were unsuccessful this time around.

"Oh. I'm sorry, Moony, I didn't know you had a caregiver," Sirius snickers, "Does she help you put your panties on too?"

"Don't let him get to you, dove," Remus murmurs, his eyes slipping shut as the warm water seeps into his skin and heals an ancient ache in his bones, "He's just mad he'll never get to take yours off. They're a real pretty pattern, y'know," Remus glances up at Sirius with the ghost of a smirk on his face, muffled by pain but persistent all the same, "Shame she's not interested in showing 'em to you."

"You've seen her panties, mate?" James cuts in, peering over Sirius's shoulder, "What are you two?"

"Friends," You shrug, "But it's stuffy in here at night, and my sleeping pants get too warm."

"You're telling me all the times you two have slept over in here all snuggled up in his bed, that you've not had any pants on?"

"Well I don't make it a habit to strip in his bed," You scoff, scrubbing at a particularly stubborn grass stain on the pale plane of his hip, "But I can promise you that my pants are never gonna be on your floor, either one of you."

"Oh please, we wouldn't dream of stealing Moony's girl," Sirius claps James on the shoulder, "But whaddya think about that, mate? Strippin' down to cuddle in bed together? They seem to think it's a friendly endeavor."

"I typically only ditch my pants for Lily, Padfoot," James informs Sirius with a sympathetic smile, "But I'll ask her if I can bring my dog to her dorm tomorrow night. You can sleep at our feet."

Sirius begins valiantly arguing for a spot higher up on the bed, every dog's hardest battle to fight, but you're no longer interested in their antics or the noise they're producing. You reach out your foot to kick at the door, and it swings shut with a satisfying click.

"Thanks, love." Remus groans, his face squished between his knees, "They were givin' me a headache."

"They always give you a headache," You dig your thumbs into a tense spot on his back and he twitches beneath you with a hum of appreciation, "We should get a flat together without them. They can be the feral deer and dog that live outside our cottage."

"We'll have to call animal control" Remus grins wryly against the rounded bend of his knee as you lean forwards to wash beneath his thighs, "How strong are their strongest tranquilizer darts?"

[shibbledibble22]

The freedom and peace I've experienced by unapologetically letting my body hair grow out has been great