I don’t know if this is any consolation but I’ve got a long and bushy beard. I’m so hairy that if I walk naked in the woods people will report big foot sightings.
My armpit hair is still thin, though.
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daannii@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I stopped shaving mine years ago because it seemed like I was developing an intolerance to every razor blade.
I told people it was cause I am a feminist.
I also was sorely disappointed in what grew in.
My whole life I thought if I let it go natural I’d have this majestic thick black beard under there. Something to be proud of, you know?
However after it grew in, it’s a medium brown. And the hair is actually kind of fine and fluffy. And not dense. And
I guess this is the feeling men have when they try to grow a beard and find out they are one of the ones who can’t do a decent job of it.
I wanted something to make people uncomfortable. To challenge their preconceived notions of womanhood.
Instead it just looks like I have a little brown, thin, soul patch under there.
Very sad.
Not even worth going sleeveless for.
Tore@piefed.world 14 hours ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
For whatever it’s worth, your comment still challenges me. I know it’s a “me” problem to prefer shaven, but…I struggle with it. So, at the very least, please know that you thoroughly confronted me with your womanhood.
daannii@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
That’s all I wanted to do. Thank you
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 21 hours ago
As someone else who doesn’t shave the armpit, my experience is similar. Less of a soul patch and more of a threadbare patch of dying grass though.
daannii@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Haha. yeah that description also works.
Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
FWIW I’m amab and I have a similar soul patch of armpit hair, so you’re at least at parity with a dude. Just the way it be sometimes 😭
I also can’t grow facial hair, but that’s a separate question
li_666@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I wonder if it gets thicker as you get older, the way beards do? Beard hair doesn’t just start up, it gets thicker over time.
bstix@feddit.dk 20 hours ago
Armpit hair grows slower, thinner and more grey with age. Both genders.
Perhaps we associate bushy armpits with older people because they just don’t care to remove it for longer periods of time
daannii@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well I’m 40. I can say ,in general, i seem to be becoming less hairy as I get older.
Hair only grows on parts of my legs now. None on my toes like it used to. I asked around And my lady friends my age and older say they have experienced that too.
My guy friends say they are pretty sure they are getting hairier. Apparently ear hair is a thing they struggle with now.
M137@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
I’m a 35yo dude and getting hairier and hairier to a point where I feel like my whole face will be covered in beard hair in a decade, it’s ridiculous. Nose and ear hair too, I try to keep up but I keep getting hairs in my ears which itches and tickles and hairs up my nose which is the same. Also very hairy toes, and fingers and top of my feet are getting there, of course armpits are already a lot. I’d so much rather not have any of this even though I like my beard. I was the least hairy (other than head) dude I knew until my mid 20s, still have thicker head hair than almost everyone I’ve known and met, though it’s already going grey at an increasingly rapid speed. Beard is odd too as I have every color, texture and amount of curliness that can be. White, blonde, red, brown, black, smooth, sandpaper like, straight, wavy, curly, jagged etc.
daannii@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
That’s interesting. I think I’ve gotten a little more nose hair but not much. No ear hair that I know of. 🤞
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Front calves are shins but I like it.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Go gurl!
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
😭😭😭 yes
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 1 day ago
Feeling personally attacked?