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Wears a pink suit. But Double R Superstar wore it much better than Big D. 
Excellent article, too! 
then before the finals they can wear Adidas for the final month to understand early hip-hop culture 
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I am darker haired, so I'll stick with the clean shaven look for myself. I need to dress professionally, including pantyhose. Have you ever seen dark leg hair all twisted up under hosiery? Really unappealing.
Friends of mine have told me as we mature (I refuse to say "age" our leg and axillary hair stops growing. I'm 63 and and still waiting. Any time would be fine.
I honestly feel I am not doing anything because society expects me to - I don't wear dresses or high heels or any jewelry - I just prefer a shaved look / feel 
My husband could care less about shaving anywhere so I never did.
As far as armpits go, deodorant and anti-perspirants are useless. I work outside doing physical labor every day and that stuff is pretty useless within 30 minutes of being outside. Besides, I DO work outside so nobody "smells" me anyway over the horse odors. Bottom line, I don't do my pits either.
That said (TMI?), as an Irish woman, I have a pass on shaving anyway.... 
(although...."put out" makes it sound more like a chore than something fun) 
but guys, a little manscaping can be nice, especially if you demand rigid lady gardening
Stopped at the first sentence of the clip and immediately transitioned to UMBRAGE MODE.
So yes--it did, HONESTLY, sound like you needed some clarity there. You didn't even MENTION the other half of the assignment.
This IS General Discussion, you know--you're speaking to the entire board, not a select subset. Being rude and nasty and dismissive to people plays less well in the wider community--and I didn't say a single thing that merited you getting so shitty and nasty to me.
I guess you're the only person in the world who thinks that EXPERIENCES are separate from FEELINGS.
How interesting! How ... detached!
I feel sorry for you, frankly.
I certainly wouldn't want to go through life not feeling anything as a consequence of my life's experiences...but hey, that's just me. I enjoy all aspects of life and find it quite precious. The feelings that result from experiences make life worth living.
I guess being dismissive with some "so done discussing" snark is preferable to you than digging down on the topic. Being confrontational and angry is a great way to avoid breaking down an interesting assignment, or acknowledging that people at different stages of their lives, from differing cultural backgrounds, might have differing takes on how people might "experience" the assignment (and like it or not, that includes their reactions to it--dare I say, their "feeeeeelings" .
It's just SO much easier to snark and run off than acknowledge that you may have misinterpreted someone's remarks. It's also so easy to think the worst of people--and you do that a lot. I'd say it's a failing on your part.
Now go have one of those swell days! Don't forget to take your righteous umbrage and ready offense with you, now! I have no need of it. You showed those evil haters at THINK PROGRESS a bit of what-for! Your work is done!
Haters at think progress?
What the ever loving fuck are you talking about?
Seriously though, thanks for the splaining... quite topical 
I dunno what the hell makes you think you know what you're talking about but goddamn... Those are some seriously way out there ideas you've got there
When the women in the class didn't shave, they were treated differently.
If everyone had your attitude (which they should), then the women who didn't shave wouldn't have noticed any change in how they were treated. Unfortunately, our society carries a lot of ingrained notions of what's "normal" for each gender, and some people react poorly when those "normal" ideas are challenged.
known to man, for any OP about stupid fucking shaving posts. 
But you see anything that makes women less Attractive to men is misandry. When women cut their hair short, that, we are told, is misandry. I figured this was just another step in the feminist conspiracy to force "men" to go overseas for suitable wives.
https://asunews.asu.edu/20140703-body-shaving
“There’s no better way to learn about societal norms than to violate them and see how people react,” said Fahs. “There’s really no reason why the choice to shave, or not, should be a big deal. But it is, as the students tend to find out quickly.”....That act of rebellion isn’t quite the same for males as females, according to Fahs. It’s not uncommon in our society for some men to engage in “manscaping,” removing hair from some parts of their bodies. For the extra-credit assignment, she asks male students to shave everything below the neck and maintain it for ten weeks. This makes the process labor-intensive and gives men some insight into what women who shave go through, she said.
Some male students have come up with strategies to add a “macho” element to the project. “One guy did his shaving with a buck knife,” Fahs said. “Male students tend to adopt the attitude of, ‘I’m a man; I can do what I want.’”
“Although a co-worker questioned why I shaved my legs, I felt comfortable in my own skin,” says a former male participant, Kurt Keller. “It helped having classmates who were so willing to lay it on the line too.....Fahs said there’s more of a tendency on the part of women who stop shaving to be concerned about the reaction of their romantic partner. Men who shave tend to focus more on what other men think. Both genders bump up against sexism and heterosexism in their experiences, albeit in different ways, she explained.
....And the American Psychological Association was so sufficiently impressed with the body hair exercise that the organization gave Fahs the Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award through Division 35 in 2012. She has had papers about the project published in academic journals, including Feminism & Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly and Gender & Society.
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I guess they honestly do think that nearly all men and a good deal of women too must absolutely REEK at the end of the day
This thread is unreal
for me, because my leg and armpit hair stopped growing nearly ten years ago, in the middle of perimenopause. So it would be difficult for me to prove I don't shave.
PS...OTOH, chin and mustache hairs seem to have taken up the slack. 
If you are a hairy male, you are working your ass off maintaining a hairless body from the neck down, and maintenance is a requirement. Granted, men can cover up their legs and arms and chests and backs, and lie, but this is Arizona where the experiment is taking place, where students often wear shorts around campus.
OTOH, the women participating in the experiment could wear trousers and sleeves to cover up hairy legs and pits and so forth, but the fashion nowadays is towards sleeveless options and shorts, so they'd have to be both out of fashion AND warm in a hotter environment.
The students pictured seem to be embracing the project:
