Velma

It’s not so much that I make assumptions about individual men rather than it influences how I see and move through the world. I stay alert in areas where I’m vulnerable, I have a resting bitch face, I don’t take the window seat on the bus, etc.

Misogynistic ideas like women are better shaved don’t always come from men, but it’s usually coming from men. And that’s just my personal experience.

And men I don’t know also pose the greatest risk to me as a woman. It is what it is.

I do tend to assume that men I don’t know are malicious as a baseline because they are a danger to women.

Oh silly us, it’s actually women’s fault that the patriarchy forces societal standards on women.

It’s a defining characteristic of mammals.

Trust, there’s a lot of people every day that see my body hair and I’m not being intimate with them.

Dolphins are born with hair on their snout.

Women are not those types of mammals.

You’ve never seen a woman’s bare legs in public before?

And what’s the problem with that?

This is a very real scenario that many women have experienced.

It’s from experience. Having moved through this world as a woman, these types of views primarily come from men. I’ve had women call out my body hair before because women work to uphold the patriarchy as well.

The phrasing and casual belief that even though women grow body hair it should be seen like cancer and taken off of the body sounds like a man to me.

I’m happy to stand corrected, but I’m also not dumb enough to ignore the teachings I’ve gleaned from living as a woman.

The majority of men do expect and prefer that women are shaved, thus the assumption.

I think the motivation for the second comment in the screenshot is what is really in contention here. Personally, I read the second comment as an assertion that, similar to tumors, women are not supposed to have body hair even if it grows on them.

Now that doesn’t mean I think you’re incorrect. Just the other commenter was picking up on something else in the post.

Women are mammals same as men. We grow hair on our bodies.

My personal experience doesn’t dictate what your wife should feel or do for her own body.

Your wife still grows hair. It’s ultimately her decision what to do with it, but her body grows hair naturally.

Last time I checked, that was a pretty integral part of being a mammal.

Wouldn’t it be abnormal for a mammal to not grow hair though?

Should’ve been obvious with how queer-coded she is ;)

How do we know women aren’t just giant blobs of cancer?

It’s a bad comparison because women are supposed to grow body hair.