Ladies what is the deal? More and more of us gals are starting to wonder out loud why it is okay for men to walk around like Sasquatch while women get dirty looks if we show up with a tiny bit of stubble on our legs.
We are expected to fight nature and wax, shave, tweeze and otherwise electronically torture ourselves into sleek hairless creatures. Why is their hair okay and our hair somehow unacceptable?
I am simply getting fed up with this notion of demanding increasingly less and less hair on women while men get to wander around perfectly comfortable with their five o’clock shadows, their Andy Rooney-like eye brows and their hairy backs!
My friend, who shall remain nameless—okay it was Doug—told me that he thinks women should all be getting Brazilian waxes. Oh really? Ladies, lets start suggesting all men get the Guyzilian wax! A past issue of Men’s Journal says this is a sign of the apocalypse—well guess what guys—we thought the same thing when Brazilian waxing became trendy!
When traveling in Europe much to my delight I discovered that women there were lounging at the beach eating carbs, avoiding razors and enjoying themselves! Hmmm… I think they are on to something!
They say all fashion is cyclical. So when is that full length swimming suit coming back?
Lisa Hammond
The Barefoot CEO ®
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Amen sister!!
For you young gals, I say boogy on! But for my age, I would be a little uncomfortable trying to go hairy. I have been fighting hair in certain places for too many years to stop now.
Lisa,
The sad thing is that men don’t expect it, at least not the ones I’ve dated and I date some pretty amazing high powered men. I think waxing, like most of the things like that that women do are for each other… or to prove something to other woman. It’s sad. Trim or shave but screw the waxing…why would you do anything that hurts that much just to please someone else.
Women, it’s time we took our lives, our bodies, and our self esteem back… age gracefully, be who we are, and remember that other woman really don’t care what you look like… and if they do, that’s there problem.
Be Boldly You!
Lisa Kay
First of all – Glad to have found you!!
I am singing Hallelujah right now after reading this post.
Brazillians and the shame for not getting one has gotten ridiculous. Groom, wax some, but really do I have to look like I did at 5 yrs old? And as my hubby said to me, “I prefer adult women, not children” Yea, I love him!
I noticed while on the beach in Jamaica that women always hiding their bodies were the American’s and the Canadians. The chubby gals from South America wore that bikini proudly. (ok so did their chubby men in teeny tiny suits…ick)
If an American woman ate bread at lunch she was putting on a burka!
Lisa, Tell Doug… “You first”.
Have a pretty day!
Kristin