The Forearm Thread

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

High fives to those of you that get the joke.
And to the rest of you, what's with your obsessions with forearms, you freaks?

I totally get the joke

[DoctorSoft]

Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

high fives to those of you that get the joke.
And to the rest of you, what's with your obsessions with forearms, you freaks?

iget it

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by Il Duce

i take that as a reference to my pubes?

Almost there.

[Howard the Duck]

fisting is not funny to me

[minimoo]

haha i wonder how you like your legs?

[jackhammer]

I haven't got a clue why I was mentioned in the original post. I am completely nonplussed.

[Farfisa]

I knew this long before any of you. WWWP <3

[VEGANGELICA]

Originally Posted by Dayvan Cowboy

I'm screen capping and sending to booboo.
ololololololol

EDIT:
you know what's nice about being a ginger? your arm hair is blond. NO NEED TO SHAVE YAY

DAYVAN, no need to shave EVER. But it is noteworthy that people feel they 'need' to. Why?

Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon

High fives to those of you that get the joke.
And to the rest of you, what's with your obsessions with forearms, you freaks?

I get the 'joke' but whether it really is one depends on booboo's reaction, I'd say.

The topic *is* interesting to me, though, because just this last week while in orchestra I started looking at women's and men's forearm hair after I noticed that some of the women appeared to have no hair at ALL on their forearms. Are they shaving their forearms, I wondered???

Then yesterday I saw one of the women with her preschool daughter, and I could see that the *daughter* had arm hair...just like little girls and boys both usually have leg hair. So then I was left wondering whether the little girl inherited her dad's arm hair...or whether her mom shaves hers off.

I couldn't find much on the Web about the percentage of women in the U.S. who shave their arm hair, but the trend is mentioned and some sources suggested 15%. My guess is that the 'hairlessness' norm is just continuing to increase, boosted by peer pressure and fear of social rejection, and so the number of forearm shavers will rise. I am waiting with great expectation and amusement for when eyebrows disappear.

Apparently, shaving armhair is really popular among Japanese women:

Japanese women shave their forearms! « Mrsnobukuni’s Weblog

Women have a mutual unspoken pact not to reveal the truth of our beauty endeavours to men, but I break this pact for the sake of sharing insights into the Japanese people!

When I first came to Japan, I noticed how smooth Japanese people’s skins looked and observed with envy how their arms were completely hairless. About six months later, I realised that it wasn’t a biological blessing. While walking through Roppongi, two girls stopped my friends and I to complete a survey. The survey was about the beauty regimes of women. The question that grabbed all of our attention was “Do you shave the hair on your arms?” We all automatically, in our global naivety, squirmed and collectively said “oh no, that’s disgusting”. The interviewers got very defensive and it was then that it dawned on me that some Japanese women shave their arms. Eight years later I can say that, in my experience, a lot, if not the majority, of Japanese women do this!

[FETCHER.]

Omg, why didn't I think of this. The bit of the folder and the grandma HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. AMAZING!!!!!

[FETCHER.]

Ps I've never shaved my arms. Naturally blonde ftw.