Fair enough but lets not compare legshaving to corsets. Legshaving has it's discomforts as does any kind of self grooming (something everybody is expected to do) but it's not really hazardous to do it.
You take a look at the cultural diversity of today, people with crazy fashion sense and weird fetishes that they are open about. Very few people give in to peer pressure as much as we did in the old days, at least once we reach adulthood and school life is done and over with and we have more freedoms.
Lets be honest, the amount of people who get dirty looks is starting to equal if not outnumber the amount of people who don't. We're so overally critical on one hand and yet so many people don't give a f*ck on the other.
When neo hippie-ism and feminism is very trendy now I don't think hairy legged girls are unable to find acceptence if they look for people who accept it. Theres so many cultures people choose to associate themselves with, if you don't like how one culture treats you, make a lifestyle change and find people who don't care how hairy you are.
I think most people in America have progressed to the point of accepting that everyone has their own tastes, that somebody out there will ALWAYS disaprove of their lifestyle choice and that there's no reason to care what these people think. If people care what perfect strangers think about their fashion sense then I think they have problems. The only people whose opinions should matter to you are your family and your friends, and if they are your true friends they won't care what is on your legs.
I just don't think it's as big of a deal anymore. I think now it's because women have done it for so long that many women actually have come to prefer it. And many men prefer smooth legs and if people want to base their appearances on attracting the opposite sex (something we both do) then that's their right and it's something that is biologically natural for us. Even if it's made us to adopt things you deem unnatural, we have the choice to do whatever we want to our bodies regardless if it's natural or not.
The more common something is the more people will eventually come to like it, our ideals of beauty change as times change. It's not like most women WANT to be hairy but feel forced to shave it off. I think most women do it because it pleases their own aesthetic taste.
But here's some advice. Anyone can start a new trend I think. I don't think preaching on a forum like this one is the way to start a trend. If you're too self conscious or whatever to make a fashion statement yourself then I dunno, maybe try and start a (non sleazy) magazine or website that challenges ideals of feminine beauty and promotes alternatives.
I'm following my own advice in fact, because baldy1388 has appointed me as a contributor to his blog The Acomo File, which he says actually get a decent amount of hits in the one month it's been around. So now I can share my opinions with people who are actually interested instead of constantly bumping some thread that only 2 other people ever read.
Last edited by boo boo; 08-04-2010 at 06:36 AM.
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