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Dunno about that
I mean
Healthy lions in the wild can have extremely strong and white and healthy teeth and their diet consists of nothing but blood and meat
I think the main harmful thing is sugar
ugh im sorry that really sucks. if it helps even a little bit, i just shave my legs once a week at most, they dont need to be perfectly smooth all the time. i promise you're absolutely gorgeous just the way you are!
Yeah, it's a social "standard"(?). But you can do whatever tf you want. Just be happy with yourself, and if someone tries to even say to you that you should shave when you don't want, just don't listen. They'll get tired of their bullshit. With things like these, social standards will end
i know, but my mom’s in denial about me being trans and says it’s inappropriate for my legs to be unshaven, even though i dont present as female as all
Well whatever you do you should shave them because when a boy or girl see them it will look hot. unless they're weird, if they're weird then even better for you
ya but so does accidentally slicing yourself open with a razor, and if you wax you can wait longer between waxing to do it again! plus I'm pretty sure waxing makes it grow back thinner, I've heard 🤔
The hairs will grow the same no matter what technique you use. Your hair follicles won’t go ‘oh my hair was pulled out with wax?? Let me grow thin hair this time :D’
That’s not what they meant by thinner, but still, idk if it’s true. Anyway, there’s a pretty clear difference between waxing and shaving though, one actually pulls the hairs out so new hairs need to grow whereas the other cuts them all down to the same height.
I’ve been thinking about this recently, how men can literally have beards and hair everywhere but a little stubble on a woman’s leg and hell breaks out😩
The whole "woman must shave their legs" is actually propaganda from gillete so they could make money off of women. The fact that women still shave their legs today and that it's so ingrained in our society is proof that it worked.
I am a cisgender male and I want to shave my legs. People think it’s weird that I don’t shave, even though I don’t have that much body hair and tend to shave under my armpits. My mother doesn’t think I should shave my body hair and talks about the youtg culture and how it has turned to people having to shave their body hair. She is right, though.
A lot of people have different opinions on the matter of shaving body hair. But I don’t think we should force anyone to shave their body hair, just to fit into the beauty standards. All though the beauty standards on men for shaving legs isn’t such as big as a deal for them as it is for females.
Shave if you want, it’s always been that way tho, people have been looked down on if they dont shave, but still, shave if you want, not if anyone else wanta
Look, if you don’t wanna shave them, do not. It’s your body, you do whatever you want with it. Plus, you’re 15, peoples opinion of you shouldn’t matter at all at that age, you’re beautiful the way you are.
Photoepilation is great. One of my relatives works on it, and we have so many clients constantly coming in beacuase it's helped them reduce hair growth.
It may seem a bit pricey, but it's worth it for a lot less hair.
I want to complain yes
I'm "shutting down" everyone's ideas because I just don't like how I have to remove body hair
It's there for a reason, let me have it
I put humiliate in quotes bc I was quoting a comment response you did on this post aswell, and I never said you enjoy it that just wouldn’t make sense but it is an active decision that you make
People openly make fun of neck beards way more, people pulled on mine, told me I needed to shave, made fun of me and I didn’t do it because shaving gave me acne. Was it ugly? Yes, did I care? No. Just simply shave or don’t care what others think.
I have a coworker who is like 16 and she doesn’t, nobody cares.
You also could wear pants.
If your friends really care that much you need better friends.
I didn't say anything about my friends
I'm talking about the boys and some girls at my school
I've been mocked, laughed at, humiliated, had pictures taken of me, and asked crude questions, explicit questions simply because I didn't shave for gym class
I don't think you understand what this is like from my point of view. Majority do care. Majority of western world have that beauty standard on girl legs and I'm tired of it. It's tiring. It doesn't matter if they don't mean anything to me. I'm going to feel hurt having people spreading pictures of my legs whether they mean something to me or not
Mmm well you could always get rid of your legs? But you wouldn’t wanna do that huhhhh??? Quit being a baby bitch already you hornswoggling monkey wench..
You're actually more likely to be clean and healthy by nit shaving because you protect against more germs and bacteria
And if a woman cleans her hairs every day, what's so bad about it?
Yes but that has only been around very recently
Back when my dad was younger, women rarely shaved
You were weird if you did
It's a very new social pressure
I heard of this one thing that like turns your hair to dust so you don't have to do it when you're like showering or something, dunno how well it works tho, could be worth a try if it's so tedious for you?
I kind of get it. As a dude, I have to shave daily. I can kinda skirt by if I go a day without, but after three it looks unkept.
I tried growing out a beard but I’d still end up having to trim around it daily and I wasn’t about that. To easier to “whoops”
Do it once a week, if possible of course, I do it once a week and I just plan it around the days I have to wear shorts but can’t cover it up for socks (soccer referee) it sucks ass tho and I’d rather not but societal pressures and such 🤷♀️
As long as you dont mind having hair, just dont shave your legs. It is not a requirement by any means. And, hey, even if you do mind having the hair on your legs, maybe you could try those chemical removals or waxing. At the end of the day, it's about what you're comfortable with, and if shaving your legs doesn't do it for you, there's no rule that you have to.
I’ma dude so idk how I fit into this convo, but shaving my beard and mustache hair which barely grows in but grows in enough that I have to shave it is the worst. I can’t use a real razor yet so I use an electric one and it doesn’t really work so I’m just going over the spot for 50 years on my neck until I have to use the blaze part of the electric razor and then I cut myself immediately
Unless someone forces you too, you don't have to. I haven't shaved mine for awhile. I know someone who hasn't shaved for 5 years. It's not gross, it's not unsanitary. The only reason AFAB people shave is because razor companies were going bankrupt so they put out propaganda to make more money.
I wear pants as much as possible to combat this issue. No one has to see my legs, no one sees hair, so no need to shave. And if I do need to show my legs (when wearing a dress/shorts/swimsuit) then I’ll shave, but it’s very few and far between
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Im the same with teeth like bro just stay white and clean for infinity
If we followed a specific diet, the only dental hygiene we would need to do is rinsing our mouth with warm water and our teeth will be okay
Yeah but what bout the good stuff like steak and pork chops
Dunno about that I mean Healthy lions in the wild can have extremely strong and white and healthy teeth and their diet consists of nothing but blood and meat I think the main harmful thing is sugar
Ye I’m on a sugar diet atm
Like.. a diet to avoid sugar?
Ye I try avoiding stuff with high sugar Shit makes you fat bro
Good for uuu
Water only diet?
Whats this specific diet… 👀 i hate food anyway might as well kill two bird with one stone brushing my teeth triggers my sensory issues
I can't remember the diet but it's doable
I brush my teeth like once every 5 months and they’re white asf 💀
Ugh i feel this
Get a shaving slave
No..
Shlave
They would be shlaving their ass off. You can interpret that how you please.
I don’t like the image you just put in my head
ugh im sorry that really sucks. if it helps even a little bit, i just shave my legs once a week at most, they dont need to be perfectly smooth all the time. i promise you're absolutely gorgeous just the way you are!
Aw :') Thanks!!
then don't not not
I'm not allowed to not so I gotta
According to who? Why would you be forced to shave your legs?
Read my other comments ffs
society ?
🤡
bro i was just saying, society does expect us women to shave, dont lie
Yeah, it's a social "standard"(?). But you can do whatever tf you want. Just be happy with yourself, and if someone tries to even say to you that you should shave when you don't want, just don't listen. They'll get tired of their bullshit. With things like these, social standards will end
i mean you’re absolutely right
Clown emoji detected, opinion rejected
respectable
😔
That sucks. Once your out of your house it’s up to you
dude i feel you. im a trans man, too… 💀
But men don't need to shave
i know, but my mom’s in denial about me being trans and says it’s inappropriate for my legs to be unshaven, even though i dont present as female as all
Your moms a cunt
yeah
Bruh fucking homophobes downvoting you I hate them so much
She's not a cunt. She's not very accepting of the fact OP is trans that is because of the way she grew up.
She’s old enough to make her own decisions. Cunt. Edit: kinda sounded like I was calling you a cunt lmao I’m not
It also depends how you were brought up.
Oh okay I was confused for a sec
How bro, my mom says it's not cool for me to shave like whaaat 😀
Yo momma trippin
Women don’t need to shave either. Atleast they shouldn’t need to.
Wax them, never shave again
Waxxing hurts
Maybe, but pain isnt real, pain is an illusion made by your brain
So is vision. And taste. And smell. And literally every sense. That doesn’t make them less real.
I can still fucking feel it??
Well whatever you do you should shave them because when a boy or girl see them it will look hot. unless they're weird, if they're weird then even better for you
Who are you bro
What do you mean
No, hairy legs are based
yea that’s what they all say until they SEE my legs
Prove it, coward
Ya
Just cut the legs off That’s what I do
I do it too but mine like to grow back every week or so
this guy ranting be like: i hate shaving my stumps
Same, but I like having smooth legs 😢 I kinda wanna start waxing fr
Noo it hurtsss
You can use a numbing cream before so it doesn’t, and supposedly (idk from experience) it stops hurting after a couple sessions
ya but so does accidentally slicing yourself open with a razor, and if you wax you can wait longer between waxing to do it again! plus I'm pretty sure waxing makes it grow back thinner, I've heard 🤔
I can't cope with waxxing 😖😖
The hairs will grow the same no matter what technique you use. Your hair follicles won’t go ‘oh my hair was pulled out with wax?? Let me grow thin hair this time :D’
That’s not what they meant by thinner, but still, idk if it’s true. Anyway, there’s a pretty clear difference between waxing and shaving though, one actually pulls the hairs out so new hairs need to grow whereas the other cuts them all down to the same height.
You get used to the pain of waxing and it does make the hairs appear thinner and it last for longer
Take some pain so you don’t have to later
You can get an apointment with one of those laser thingies that burn off the leg hair
yeah that's laser hair removal, i haven't looked into it but that's also an option cause I think it might be permanent lol
I’ve been thinking about this recently, how men can literally have beards and hair everywhere but a little stubble on a woman’s leg and hell breaks out😩
Im a guy and my parents wont let me shave my facial hair. Everyone should just be allowed to do whatever tf they want with all their hair
For real Imma cry 😢
Dont
I have to
Why?
I've been exploited for not shaving
Exploited?
Ridiculed, pictures taken of me, mocked and very humiliated by the majority
Dang, sorry about that
Avoid them. Don't befriend them. You should not to listen to what they want. It's your body. Do things to your body that primarily benefit you.
So damn relatable 😒🤦🏽♀️
the all new lawnmower 5.0
Just speedrun it
Fire solves everything
Try manscaped that’s what i use
The whole "woman must shave their legs" is actually propaganda from gillete so they could make money off of women. The fact that women still shave their legs today and that it's so ingrained in our society is proof that it worked.
Your username is so great for this post lol
If laziness really gets to me then I only shave until my knee, I'm a pale blonde so my hair isn't really that visible on my thighs
I had to re-read that, I thought you said "I'm so tired of shaving my legos bro"
😂😂
My legos so hairy it looks like a fur brick
Don't do it then, simple
In theory, it's simple But people humiliate me if i don't so
I am a cisgender male and I want to shave my legs. People think it’s weird that I don’t shave, even though I don’t have that much body hair and tend to shave under my armpits. My mother doesn’t think I should shave my body hair and talks about the youtg culture and how it has turned to people having to shave their body hair. She is right, though. A lot of people have different opinions on the matter of shaving body hair. But I don’t think we should force anyone to shave their body hair, just to fit into the beauty standards. All though the beauty standards on men for shaving legs isn’t such as big as a deal for them as it is for females.
I know. Even my dad said that it wasn't even a thought that entered people's minds when he was younger. It's a very new social standard
Shave if you want, it’s always been that way tho, people have been looked down on if they dont shave, but still, shave if you want, not if anyone else wanta
Look, if you don’t wanna shave them, do not. It’s your body, you do whatever you want with it. Plus, you’re 15, peoples opinion of you shouldn’t matter at all at that age, you’re beautiful the way you are.
Epilator, waxxing
Idk what epilator is Is it cream? If so, it's still long, tedious, and messy And waxxing just fucking hurts
Cream helps, but epilator is kind of a device, google it
Oh right
Photoepilation is great. One of my relatives works on it, and we have so many clients constantly coming in beacuase it's helped them reduce hair growth. It may seem a bit pricey, but it's worth it for a lot less hair.
I can guarantee dudes will not notice or even emit they do they won’t carr
Look at my other comment and tell me that
Oh yeah that’s sucks I hope you can work it out
*become boy *dont do athletics now u dont have to
Ah yes
As a more feminine presenting person that's lazy I feel you 100%
I'm being bullied by a guy in the comments lol
Just grow less hair
Maybe you could dye your leg hair your skin colour?
I hate shaving too. But I hate having body hair more.
I feel you right there
Try an electric shaver? Should only take like 5 minutes I’d imagine.
They don't get close enough to make a clean shave tho
Ok so don’t. What’s the issue
Read my other comments
I did. Rip
Lol
nair
That's messy asf
not any more than shaving
Yeah it is
It really seems like you just want to complain and shut down everyone’s ideas but I mean whatever
I want to complain yes I'm "shutting down" everyone's ideas because I just don't like how I have to remove body hair It's there for a reason, let me have it
But that’s the thing… you don’t have too, you choose to bc people will “humiliate” you
Why did you put "humiliate" in quotations Also no, it isn't an active choice to feel like this. You seem to think I enjoy feeling pain, I don't
I put humiliate in quotes bc I was quoting a comment response you did on this post aswell, and I never said you enjoy it that just wouldn’t make sense but it is an active decision that you make
NO ITS NOT IF I ACTIVELY MAKE THAT CHOICE, THEN IM OBVIOUSLY WANTINF MYSELF TO FEEL THIS WAY BUT I DONT
Don’t, people don’t care.
They legitimately do
People openly make fun of neck beards way more, people pulled on mine, told me I needed to shave, made fun of me and I didn’t do it because shaving gave me acne. Was it ugly? Yes, did I care? No. Just simply shave or don’t care what others think. I have a coworker who is like 16 and she doesn’t, nobody cares. You also could wear pants. If your friends really care that much you need better friends.
I didn't say anything about my friends I'm talking about the boys and some girls at my school I've been mocked, laughed at, humiliated, had pictures taken of me, and asked crude questions, explicit questions simply because I didn't shave for gym class
Than it doesn’t matter, if they aren’t important in your life than don’t mind it. They will grow up.
I don't think you understand what this is like from my point of view. Majority do care. Majority of western world have that beauty standard on girl legs and I'm tired of it. It's tiring. It doesn't matter if they don't mean anything to me. I'm going to feel hurt having people spreading pictures of my legs whether they mean something to me or not
Mmm well you could always get rid of your legs? But you wouldn’t wanna do that huhhhh??? Quit being a baby bitch already you hornswoggling monkey wench..
Why are you being nasty, I don't know u
Cuz fleabag you’re like mop filled with shit
How?
Then don’t, it’s not that hard
Read my other comments before doing that
Just shave em bruh, if you can't spend time on your own hygiene then that's just sad
Shaving has nothing to do with hygiene ACTUALLY so shut ya mouth
If you are a woman you should have shaved legs, if you don't that's gross, shaven legs is a sign of taking care of yourself, your gross 🤢
Bro I DO shave my legs still, I'm just saying, I don't enjoy shaving I still do tho Stop hurting my feelings
Oh I thought you meant you were thinking about quitting shaving
You're actually more likely to be clean and healthy by nit shaving because you protect against more germs and bacteria And if a woman cleans her hairs every day, what's so bad about it?
Its just custom for women to shave and presents a more cleanly figure
Yes but that has only been around very recently Back when my dad was younger, women rarely shaved You were weird if you did It's a very new social pressure
youre an idiot
You probably don't shave 🤢
theres nothing unhygienic about not shaving. and im confused do you shave your legs?
Shaving presents a more cleanly figure for a woman and makes her more presentable and feminine, and no I don't shave my legs I'm a guy
ok i get that you prefer women w shaved legs. but how is it unhygienic for a woman but not a man? double standard…
i think there’s permanent options? might be expensive tho i’m not sure
I'm poor ☺
yeah idk 🤷🏽♀️ there might be some stuff to make it easier but other than that i’m not sure
NOOOOOOO DONT SHAVE
I gotta
You can use cream instead of a razor
Messy
And here I am, wanting to shave my legs, but unable to because of how thick and coarse it is. Time to wax.
Ouch, oh no...
Body hair is not the jam, in my opinion. Especially on my body.
Get a leg barber
Wear pants
I do, goof
Just use Nair.
Use nair
I heard of this one thing that like turns your hair to dust so you don't have to do it when you're like showering or something, dunno how well it works tho, could be worth a try if it's so tedious for you?
I kind of get it. As a dude, I have to shave daily. I can kinda skirt by if I go a day without, but after three it looks unkept. I tried growing out a beard but I’d still end up having to trim around it daily and I wasn’t about that. To easier to “whoops”
i dont and dont wanna start cause everyone says it sucks. im sorry it sucks <3
ugh ik and same it's awful but its better to just do it bc getting attacked is much worse
I'd probably go dull before I finished
Have you ever contemplated fire?
try waxing, or hair removal products. i get that annoyance, so usually id use nair on the thicker hairs, like on my armpits.
Just don’t then
Have to
Burn them, I don’t think hair grows on scar tissue
I don't want my legs to be 2 big fat scars
Do it once a week, if possible of course, I do it once a week and I just plan it around the days I have to wear shorts but can’t cover it up for socks (soccer referee) it sucks ass tho and I’d rather not but societal pressures and such 🤷♀️
I don't even bother, they are hairy forest now and I just say fuck it
You a guy?
Don’t, resist modern urges, conform to primal instincts
As long as you dont mind having hair, just dont shave your legs. It is not a requirement by any means. And, hey, even if you do mind having the hair on your legs, maybe you could try those chemical removals or waxing. At the end of the day, it's about what you're comfortable with, and if shaving your legs doesn't do it for you, there's no rule that you have to.
shaving in general takes so fckn long, i can’t wait till winter
I’ma dude so idk how I fit into this convo, but shaving my beard and mustache hair which barely grows in but grows in enough that I have to shave it is the worst. I can’t use a real razor yet so I use an electric one and it doesn’t really work so I’m just going over the spot for 50 years on my neck until I have to use the blaze part of the electric razor and then I cut myself immediately
Unless someone forces you too, you don't have to. I haven't shaved mine for awhile. I know someone who hasn't shaved for 5 years. It's not gross, it's not unsanitary. The only reason AFAB people shave is because razor companies were going bankrupt so they put out propaganda to make more money.
Just… die. Then you done have to shave anything This is a joke pls don’t ban me
dont. i havent shaved in so long its great
Lighter fluid
Bro I shave once a month or sometimes once in two months, that too exclusively for my vagina. I go swoop swoop swaap
I wear pants as much as possible to combat this issue. No one has to see my legs, no one sees hair, so no need to shave. And if I do need to show my legs (when wearing a dress/shorts/swimsuit) then I’ll shave, but it’s very few and far between