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  • You and I are having a back and forth direct conversation. Keep up or be more clear.

    Everyone in this thread is, though.

    Really? Because mostly I’m seeing a bunch of men arguing that we should all ignore the societal pressure on women to shave their body hair because this is actually an argument about whether hair growth can be compared to cancer.




  • If this conversation is between a Maori or Norwegian kid and a Bulgarian or Spanish or Armenian babysitter, that’s a stark contrast that actually would be plausible without the reality of unreasonable beauty standards ruining everyone’s day.

    It’s much more likely that the young boy in the post has picked up on societal expectations that women are supposed to shave their legs.

    The amount of reaching in these comments to avoid assigning any blame to the patriarchy for these standards women are held to is astonishing.




  • Since cetaceans are mammals, they have hair at some point in their life! dolphins are no exception. Dolphins have a few whiskers around their snout in the womb and when they are first born but they soon lose them.

    Amazon River dolphins (botos) keep these hairs into adulthood - they are sensory hairs and thought to help them search for prey on the river bed along with echolocation. The water they live in is very murky so eyesight has only limited use.

    The bumps on humpback whales’ head, mouth and even on their flippers are called tubercles. Those raised surfaces are actually hair follicles where a single hair grows. Similar to like a whisker, it helps the whales be able to sense their environment.

    https://us.whales.org/do-whales-and-dolphin-have-hair/

    Y’all just can’t let a woman be right, can you?








  • Velma@lemmy.todaytoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldA logician among us
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    I wouldn’t have to be as vigilant if men weren’t a danger to me. That’s just the truth of the world.

    A man can easily overpower me anytime, anywhere. Of course I have to move through the world somewhat prepared for those situations.

    I’ve only ever come across men that are vocal about women with body hair.