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Why does it seem that many black girls in Detroit have hairy legs? Some of these women are fine, but to me the hairy legs are repulsive.
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Name : Mike20429, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 23, City : Detroit, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : Tooling trades, Education level : Technical School, Social class : Middle class,They don’t shave their legs because they don’t care what YOU think.
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Name : ED25505, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Age : 43, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States,Mike, get a life. Why do you care if any woman removes her body hair? Get over your sexist perspective that body hair on women is repulsive. Get to know what is in a woman’s mind, in her heart. That’s where true beauty can be found.
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Name : K.J., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Episcopalian, Age : 47, City : Burke, State : VA, Country : United States, Occupation : Systems Analyst, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I’ve never been to the U.S.A. so I don’t know about anything about Detroit, but all women’s legs are hairy. Many women shave, wax, use hair remover, this is expensive and often painful. Different skin tones and different texture and colour of hair makes leg hair more or less proment for individual women who don’t remove leg hair. I tend to wax in the summer, it’s too inconveniant and not really necessary in the winter. It’s an individual woman’s choice.
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Name : Jenny-H30906, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 34, City : Wellington, State : NA, Country : New Zealand, Education level : Technical School, Social class : Lower middle class,Although I cannot speak for black women in Detroit since I am white and from New York, I would like to shed some light on this question of women’s body hair and the cultural factors that determine shaving or not. From what I’ve heard from my black female friends (Americans and Jamaicans), body hair is not the big issue for them as it is for whites. A friend retold to me her explanation to someone who asked much the same question as Mike. She said, simply, “Not shaving is part of black culture.”
Granted, this is changing, as I feel that more and more of the beauty pressures of the mainstream culture are being adopted by women of all backgrounds. As a child, I remember many teenage black girls with hairy underarms and legs, but now I hardly ever see this.
I think men and women need to remember that all adult women have hairy underarms and legs, but most of them hide (or attempt to hide this fact) through shaving and other hair removal methods. I think that it is not hair that some people are so offended by, but the choice of particular women to bravely bare their hair – shamelessly snubbing the cultural and beauty standards that ask women to be other than what we are. In short, women are hairy under the arms and about the legs.
I have gone through phases of shaving and phases of not shaving, and can report that none of my lovers present or past (of various races, ethnicities and nationalities, including white American men) have had any issues with this. Of course, some of them dared to ask me about it, and at other times I would say it outright myself (whether they were wondering or not) just to get it out in the open. The French men I’ve known don’t seem to mind underarm hair, and some even prefer it to leg hair, which struck me by surprise though I don’t know how pervasive that feeling is among French men.
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Name : Kate, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 26, City : Long Island, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : Teacher, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,I won’t speak for all black women, but I can tell you that many black women don’t shave their legs because having hairless legs is not a beauty standard in our culture. Many black men have told me that they find hairy legs sexy, much as they find full hips attractive. Others say they have no preference. I do have a few girlfriends who shave their legs, and of those who do, it’s because they have particularly hairy legs. I’m 34 and have only shaved my legs three times. I was competing in amateur bodybuilding. Maybe color has something to do with it, too. I’m brown-skinned, with hair slightly darker. Hair on my legs does not create a stark contrast, and the amount of hair is nothing like a hairy guy. It really comes down to preferences.
I have recognized a few other beauty standard differences between black and white women. When I was growing up, I noticed that white girls tended to wear makeup, particularly foundation, a lot sooner and more often than my black girlfriends. I noticed that young black girls tended to have their ears pierced at an earlier age, and I guess because of physical development, I noticed that young white girls tended to go a lot longer and more often braless. Look at fashion magazines. What’s displayed as beautiful women diffes between mainstream magazines with white women on the cover and minority publications devoted to black women.
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Name : annonymous, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Age : 34, City : Detroit, State : MI, Country : United States,
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