Is it bad that I agree with this?

[Not Afraid]

Maybe it's because I'm not terribly hirsute, but the last thing I am concerned about is shaving/waxing/removing the hair from another part of my body. If I was an afro-bush woman, I may feel differently, but I see it now as another piece of up-keep I don't need to add to my life. My legs and armpits are enough to do. Add that to painting my toenails, keeping my fingernails filed, dying my hair and keeping sunscreen on my body and I'm done. Man, I've gotten lazy!

[Alex]

That's why I married an Asian* woman. It keeps someone in the house to paint my toenails and keep my fingernails looking good and do all my eyebrow maintenance and back shaving. I get to be lazy (I don't have to do anything but sit still and watch TV) and still be groomed.

And now that I've made an issue of it, no I'm not ugly. But I'm also not particularly attractive. I have very attractive eyes. Otherwise I am one of those people where there is nothing wrong with any of the individual parts but somehow it all comes together blandly.



*No, that isn't really why I married an Asian woman. The Asian collection just happened to be the first catalog I got in the mail.

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Maybe it's because I'm not terribly hirsute, but the last thing I am concerned about is shaving/waxing/removing the hair from another part of my body. If I was an afro-bush woman, I may feel differently, but I see it now as another piece of up-keep I don't need to add to my life. My legs and armpits are enough to do. Add that to painting my toenails, keeping my fingernails filed, dying my hair and keeping sunscreen on my body and I'm done. Man, I've gotten lazy!

I totally agree. Only I'm too lazy to paint my toenails most of the time too.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Maybe it's because I'm not terribly hirsute, but the last thing I am concerned about is shaving/waxing/removing the hair from another part of my body. If I was an afro-bush woman, I may feel differently, but I see it now as another piece of up-keep I don't need to add to my life. My legs and armpits are enough to do. Add that to painting my toenails, keeping my fingernails filed, dying my hair and keeping sunscreen on my body and I'm done. Man, I've gotten lazy!

You think you're lazy? By comparison, I'm as groomed as a monkey.

[blueerica]

OK, Alex... I know I mojo'd you... but that just cracked me up to the point that I'm getting stares at the computer lab.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I prefer to remain coiffured. I have very sensitive follicles and I quite enjoy a scalp massage. I miss the hair when I'm bald (and I also don't like looking prepubescent.)

The bare/haired hoo-ha is clearly a personal preference, and nothing more.

[€uroMeinke]

Well, damn - this conversation has progressed way too far for me to chime in with my intended snarky post. But I will toss in that, if we fear the influence of fashion on our daughters we can always take a lesson from the islamists and require our women to wear Burkas and head scarves to protect them from our irrational masculine lusts.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Well, damn - this conversation has progressed way too far for me to chime in with my intended snarky post. But I will toss in that, if we fear the influence of fashion on our daughters we can always take a lesson from the islamists and require our women to wear Burkas and head scarves to protect them from our irrational masculine lusts.

You men are never happy, are you? It's either hooha waxing, thong wearing, low-rise buttcrack flashing fashion, or burkas.*




*(J/K)


Personally, I really don't give a **** what people wear, but I also require that people not give a **** what I am wearing. I am not nor have I ever been a fashionista. I will say that it truly is hard to find age appropriate clothing for my kid, and all my friends with kids her age say the same.

I'm pleased to see so many self-posessed and totally non-influenced people on these boards. I cannot claim to be so myself- I very much recall feeling inferior to the skinnier, prettier girls in movies, mags and at school when I was growing up. I even had a bout with anorexia, but luckily I wised up and grew up. Looking at Keira, Nicole and the like, I think I was still on the chubby side even when I was anorexic. Thank goodness I no longer give a damn, but I do worry about my daughter going through the same thing.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Personally, I really don't give a **** what people wear, but I also require that people not give a **** what I am wearing.

I'm pleased to see so many self-posessed and totally non-influenced people on these boards. [/quote]I for one never claimed to be such. All I said is that I'm well aware of the inevitable influences and do my best to work within them for my own benefit.

[wendybeth]

Have you always been so, GD? You've never succumbed to stupid, even dangerous things in order to look good to someone else or because it was the hip thing to do/be/wear?

I'm simply saying that we're all grown-ups. (Mostly). We have some ability to filter out crap and think for ourselves. I can't speak for all kids, but rumor has it lots of them seem to act in not-very-adult like manners. To say kids are not influenced by the media and other types of outside sources is (imho) naive. I guess my kid in an anomaly.