I've seeing more and more commercials for men to shave their bodies including their privates. What's wrong with men being hairy? Isn't that more masculine than being smooth?
Yes it is. Men and women are opposite genders and they have opposite physical traits! Women don't have facial hair for instance and they pronounce this trait by shaving other hair that they might have growing around their body.
Nah. It's just to sell more useless shit. In essence another way to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
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its not a one reason thing. for some it is about feminizing guys to a degree or another. there is also "manly" reasons such as aerodynamics for sprinters and cyclists and a simular usafe fir swimmers. some of it is about something more along the lines of sexual prefferences, such as basic grooming in the genital area, upto and including exactly that, sexyal prefferences. it is also a money grab (selling you stiff you dont need). as to it not being a thing 20 years ago, wrong. it has been something some do for generations or more but just got popularized within the last 2 or 3 decades. there were some medialized talks imcluding it as far back as the 90s, mostly sports reasons. as to those mentioning women shaving body hair being within the last century or so, wrong also. it was a thing back in ancient greece and roman times as well as other cultures at various other time periods. in fact the US had it more common before the 60s than media leads you to believe. though when the 60s came around and "freelove" started, staying hairy retook the stage of normality till around the later 80s/early 90s when shaving became more normalized again. even throught that some even still at least shaved their armpits and legs.
i would advise folks to stop looking at only one specific area of history and generalizing all of history off of that and instead examine all of history. so many trends of people getting "up in arms" over things like this topic, could be mitigated or avoided if at the start people didn't come to such conclusions based on a bubble of the real info. likely this thinking on this manscaping topic started when someone, somewhere looked at maybe 20 to 50 years in one or 2 cultures instead of the thousands of years across all cultures.
That's nonsense. Body hair is natural on both men and women. So why is it that only women have to shave and clean the hair on their bodies? Women like men to be clean just like men like women to be clean. It is definitely more of a male thing to have body hair accepted though and that's because we have more body hair. But let's be honest... while beauty is subjective, no one wants to look like this and very few people will find this attractive.
Not really. This take kind of reminds me of how the Germans used to come down from the mountains and attack the Roman's. People called them barbarians and looked down upon them for their kempt nails, styled hair, the fact they bathed was considered wild and unbecoming of a civilized person.
Now, that outlook is almost hard to imagine. Maybe the same will happen with this facet of personal hygiene. I don't think man's aping is about shaving totally bare anyway, otherwise there wouldn't be a very strong sales pitch for these products coming out.
It's more about controlling where the hair grows.
No, to me it has nothing to do with feminization of men. I don't want to walk around looking like a woolly mammoth or that guy from the 70s who looks like he is smuggling carpet under his shirt. Just because the hair grows doesn't mean I have to show it off. I am blessed that I don't really grow much hair on my chest so I pretty much ignore that, but I have been friends with guys who hate how much hair they grow and shave everything.
Plus, biologically they say one of the reasons for hair is to release pheromones to attract the opposite sex. The last I checked women view it the opposite now. Which is why I have shaved my arm pit hair since my teens and a decade ago started trimming the hair back between my legs. Specifically in those areas, I don't feel the need to spread my male stink out to the rest of the world.
No, body hair is more tied to genetics than gender.
As humans diverged from other homonids, the fur our ape ancestors had was lost more and more each generation, but in some human lineages, moreso than others.
There are ethnicities that naturally lack visible body hair, and ethnicities that are extremely hairy, and everywhere in between.
Either case is present in both men and women, it's just that hairy women typically shave or wax it off more often than hairy men do, but they still naturally have the hair, so its not something that grows because a person is male, and therefor its not a masculine trait.
Beards however are almost exlusively male, but even then, many ethnicities cannot grow beards, even though they are not lacking in male hormones, so even then, beards are only a "male" trait circumstancially, and something that would also occur in women had it not be sexually selected against.
Yes, Feminism is the goal of converting a guy into a girl. Based on the idea that men are defective and need to be more like a Woman.
Feminism and the LGBTQ agenda are one and the same.
You are going to see this everywhere in the media. It's an industry wide policy. Everyone you see in the media is under contract or hired through an agency. If you are in front of the camera you have to clean off your body hair. Homosexuals run the media, they are grooming girls to be with other girls and to hate men.
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u if your hair is what makes you feel like a man... there might be bigger issues somewhere there
No. Where you do/don't have hair is a preference, and shouldn't have to do with masculinity or femininity. I prefer guys who have minimal to no body hair, so I'm good with more men finally being encouraged to at the very least, keep things tidy.
Many men want to look like girls OR prepubescent boys. Take your pick on which one is more disturbing.
I saw in a survey that around 40% of men say they shave their legs. It's seen as a social etiquette now. My cousin told me I have to shave my arms even though my arms are 99.999% hairless because it's expected of people that they should save their whole bodies. She says I will become an outcast if I don't do that.
Well, no lady likes hairs up her nose or in her mouth, if you know what I mean and I think you do, so if you want more oral attention, "manscaping" is pretty much the price of that. But like the automakers say in their advertising, "your mileage may vary".
This is brought to you by manscaped! Lol seriously though don't shave. I have hair from head to toe. Only places that don't are my neck, back, shoulders, sides, butt, feet biceps and hands (ish) I am a man why would I remove the primary defense I have against cold, utis. Hair grows for a reason and it medical/biological not cosmetic
I don't think manscaping is any more feminizing than a man preferring the woman to be on top and/or leading. It's just a matter of preference. It might not even be for the looks, him or his partner might prefer how it feels one way or the other.
No? If someone wants to get rid of their body hair, they can do that if they want to. If it's gay, then being gay is cool.
What's even the point of having body hair? It makes applying skincare products a pain in the ass and it increases skincare products consumption rate at no additional effect.
Some men (including myself lol) are too hairy, if you're extremely hairy you need to shave, at least trim, your private parts and armpits. Yes, it's not a problem if you're clean, but it just makes life easier and is more hygienic especially in the summer.
No... girls don't want to spent an eternity trimming, sculpting and primming themselves only to go out with the missing link. A smattering of hair wherever god gave it to you is very Adam and Eve, too much is National Geographic.
No. If a man is built or not he's still clearly a man. Hair does not make one masculine. Some men like feeling smooth themselves. I can only imagine feeling all that itchiness growing back in though.
Shaving is neither feminine or masculine. Humans have been grooming themselves since they walked the planet in some way. If you want to shave or not regardless of gender it is a choice.
Don’t be stupid. Body hair, and how one feels about it could be completely unrelated to one’s concept of masculinity in general. Don’t get it twisted.
i would say it can be. but like i prefer shaving my pits for example and mowing the lawn down there. is that feminine? i don't care to be honest. i'm still straight and i feel good doing it, so whatever.
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