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sabrinadropkick:

grrrlvirus:

kittencreamery:

sullen-alien:

clementinecannibal:

for anyone who thinks female armpit hair is ‘no big deal’ these days, for those who question my insistence that my armpit hair on my femme body is a genderqueer expression that has been targeted for violence time and again, check out this comment on my youtube.

why is female hair so offensive? how is it any different from male hair? this shit is ridiculous.

I can’t even fathom how someone like him can use a computer. 

this shit is all too painfully real. trigger warning.

when i was nineteen i went to a local show with my sister. i was dancing around and acting crazy, and i was the only grrrl doing so. i was wearing a tanktop. the singer in the band said into the mic “the girl with the red hair (me) really needs to shave her fucking armpits”. people were laughing at me. people were throwing shit at me. i was giving these people the finger and raising my arm, showing off the hair. then a guy punched me in the face, knocking my glasses off. i tried to hit him back but another guy caught my arm and restrained me. i was pushed, shoved and hit by a group of guys. my shirt was pulled down during all of this. my sister’s arms were restrained. i was dragged out on my back by my pigtails, down some stairs and my head was smashed into a pole along the way. it was fucked up and very, very traumatizing. nothing like that had ever happened to me before. after that people would pass the store i worked at in the mall and shout ‘shave your armpits!’ at me while i was working.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

That the mere presence of female body hair can incite such hate, rage, and hostility…I have no words.

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  3. priapia reblogged this from lacigreen and added:
    Fun fact: The reason we even have body hair is to protect our skin (and genitals) from outside impurities and scratches...
  4. calayna reblogged this from lacigreen
  5. winds-of-terra reblogged this from stupidrabiddog and added:
    I would stab them. Those people do not deserve to live. let alone reproduce. What the fuck.
  6. va5el1ne reblogged this from captain-sonic
  7. skunkitty reblogged this from wickedseraph and added:
    How could people honestly be so awful? I feel inclined to not shave to stand in solidarity with this poor young woman....
  8. stupidrabiddog reblogged this from wickedseraph and added:
    What the ever living fuck.
  9. wickedseraph reblogged this from captain-sonic and added:
    Oh my God.
  10. captain-sonic reblogged this from superhusbandslove
  11. louque reblogged this from evolutionarypsyche and added:
    Uh, even if they were fucking the person, it shouldn’t matter. It’s body hair. Everyone has it. When body hair becomes...
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  16. barbiebones reblogged this from skylertheresrot and added:
    WHAT THE FUCK?! OVER UNSHAVED ARMPITS?!?!?! D: UGH!
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  24. paleotrees reblogged this from sendforbromina and added:
    Re: “sloppiness” — not cool. At all. I get some iteration of “you’ve let yourself go” and “wouldn’t you feel better...
  25. sendforbromina reblogged this from paleotrees and added:
    fwiw this is why i am constantly frustrated when people get called “femmephobic” for critiquing compulsory femininity...
  26. chokerhetoric reblogged this from discosherpa and added:
    this kind of makes me want to die. what is this world.

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