I know I have a tendency to get indignant about odd things, and it is convoluted as to what will set me off.  Maybe today I am still festering about my bi-annual annoyance of day-light savings.  Who knows.  What is rattling around in my head today is the bias against body hair.

There are many cultures that naturally have less body hair than others.  Most people of European descent are not among those.  I, personally, hate shaving.  I don’t like the time it takes.  I don’t see the point of it.  For many years I didn’t shave.  I refused to be dictated to by some abstract idea, pressured into a perceived societal norm.  I will admit that the beginning of every summer I had to have some self talk about my hairy legs and wearing shorts and who cares what everyone else thinks.  I won’t get started on the cut of bathing suit legs in regards to the way body hair grows either.  Last year I thought it would be nice, every once in a while, to wear a dress.  My resolve not to shave came apart a bit because I would look at my furry legs underneath my dress and feel like I was pretending to be a girl.  (As an aside, there are many days that I feel like I am pretending.  I am pretty sure I wasn’t issued a girl card.)

Now it appears that the hairless thing has infiltrated the guy camp.  I saw an advertisement for a hair removal device with a man using it on his chest.  Argh.  I may be going a bit out on a limb here, but if you look at Chris Evans photos before Captain America and then the naked hairless chest Captain America, my opinion is the before pictures are much more enticing.

Body hair can be sexy.  It can also be sensual.  When the wind blows through the hair on your head, it feels good.  Having fingers run through you hair, especially if it involves a head massage feels fabulous.  The scents that are captured by hair add a whole other dimention to experiencing another person.  Body hair has the same sensors and tactility.  Why forgo these things for the idea that hairlessness is visually more attractive?

Why hairlessness?  Does everyone want to look like children?  Is this an anti-aging thing?  Is this a ploy by the hair removal consortium to sell more product?  Is this some psychological scheme to give people yet another useless thing to think about so that their brains are too full and self-absorbed to notice the chaos and destruction of what is around them?  (How is that for a conspiracy theory?)