'|I haven’t shaved my armpits for more than three years, and it’s becoming increasingly normal for women to ditch the razor,' writes Chiara Wilkinson in Vogue.
And yet, even though second-wave feminists were calling hair removal a waste of time and an obstacle to gender equality as far back as the ’60s, not everyone is on board with it. Sometimes, my pits have been met with double takes or sarcastic remarks. Other times, I’ll get a weak smile, as though to say: “Good for you, but not for me.” Hygiene seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people.
With time, I’ve grown to view unshaved pits as a form of social signalling. Seeing someone else with armpit fuzz is like seeing a stranger wearing a Chopova Lowena kilt or spotting someone on the Tube reading a book you recently finished. For the most part, the women I know who embrace their body hair share similar liberal standards to my own and carry an infectious, don’t-fuck-with-me confidence that I enjoy being around.to be a question of making a statement.
Still, the fact that body hair is increasingly being accepted makes me hopeful that feminist values are becoming more normalised, and that gender expectations are gradually being eroded from every direction. In fact, I won’t be surprised if unshaved pits become something of a cliché among my generation as the 2020s wear on. When that does happen – and I truly believe it will – it will be a relief that something a simple as ditching your Venus Divine doesn’t feel so politically charged.
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