{"id":5221,"date":"2014-07-09T23:16:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2014-07-09T23:28:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T21:28:56","slug":"i_stare_at_womens_legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/i_stare_at_womens_legs\/","title":{"rendered":"I stare at women&#8217;s legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do. I stare at women&#8217;s legs. You see, I&#8217;ve become really curious about leg shaving.<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to shave my legs. I hate it in so many ways that I don&#8217;t even want to count them all. I am lucky to be married to a man who isn&#8217;t bothered by leg hair, and therefore I let it grow. I haven&#8217;t shaved my legs since university, I believe.<\/p>\n<p>Society in general doesn&#8217;t share my views, I know, so I keep my deviance to myself. (Although now that I think about it, isn&#8217;t it really bizarre that something so natural can be so provocative&#8230;) I cover up at work and wear trousers or tights or leggings. But now I&#8217;m on vacation and it&#8217;s hot, and I care very little about the opinion of strangers, so I walk around unashamedly baring my hairy legs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I surreptitiously look at other women&#8217;s summer legs. Trains, train stations and playgrounds in particular are full of more or less immobile easily observable legs.<\/p>\n<p>And I am truly surprised to see that every single pair of legs is shaved. I have not seen a single hairy shin. Young legs and old legs; skinny, flabby, athletic and plump legs; legs in trendy shoes, strappy sandals or worn-out sneakers. All of them shaved. Possibly I&#8217;ve missed some with invisible downy hair but those wouldn&#8217;t really count anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Well, all except <a href=\"http:\/\/ladydahmer.alltforforaldrar.se\/2011\/april\/operation-framja-kvinnliga-ben.html\">Lady Dahmer&#8217;s legs<\/a>, I guess, but I haven&#8217;t seen those first hand.<\/p>\n<p>All these years I&#8217;ve believed that leg shaving fell somewhere around &#8220;mascara&#8221; and &#8220;nice hairdo&#8221; on the primping scale: things most women spend time on because it makes them look prettier, but really optional. That seems to have been a misapprehension. Leg shaving appears to be viewed more like showering or brushing your hair: basic hygienic procedures that you just have to do if they want to fit into normal society.<\/p>\n<p>So leg hair is somehow unhygienic. But only on women; men&#8217;s hair is not. I guess men just have a different kind of hair: teflon-coated and self-cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do. I stare at women&#8217;s legs. You see, I&#8217;ve become really curious about leg shaving. I refuse to shave my legs. I hate it in so many ways that I don&#8217;t even want to count them all. I am lucky to be married to a man who isn&#8217;t bothered by leg hair, and therefore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}