Why one Vogue editor decided to trash her razor.
received rape threats after she appeared in the Adidas Originals campaign with unshaved legs, even though her blonde hair and petite frame otherwise match most existing beauty norms. Byström is also an artist known for challenging preestablished perceptions of femininity, often posting photos of herself with body hair or. “Me being such an abled, white, cis body with its only nonconforming feature being a lil leg hair,” she wrote on her Instagram.
After a quick round of consultation with female friends, it seemed that peer pressure was a prevalent reason for girls to start shaving. One friend told me about the time girls at summer camp pressured her into it, while another spoke about how she was teased into shaving at around the same age as me. “They were all doing it and sharing tips,” she said. “They wore Band-Aids on their mistakes as a cool way to let everyone know they were shaving.
Of course, the underlying connection between shaving and femininity is bound to the idea that a clean-shaven woman is most attractive to the opposite sex. A few friends have told me that, even though they don’t regularly shave, they will get the razor out for a date. One of them put it this way: “I started and continue for men. It’s not great.” Of course, certain LGBTQ cultures have their own social codes on body hair too. “Being a lesbian then, it was like I had to prove it.
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