christy217 said:
Because it is generally acceptable for most of society to do it, so that means I have to do as well?
No, you don't
have to.
But you'd probably get fewer people rolling their eyes at you. If you do something that's not societally accepted, you
will get people pointing or rolling their eyes at you.
Period.
Count your blessings. In the past, they used to stone people who didn't conform to societal norms.
christy217 said:
It amazes me that such a minute thing like hair on a females legs can irk people.
It amazes you?
It amazes me that you're amazed.
When you chose to stop shaving your legs - or made the desicion to not begin, did you
not know that it was a societally accepted norm that women usually behave in this fashion?
Not shaving your legs is a lot like:
- Dressing with clashing prints, or eye-wrenching colors.
- Not wiping your rear-end after you make dookies.
- Wearing your ballcap with the bill turned sideways.
- Pulling one sweat-pant leg up to your knee.
- Not wearing deodorant
- Getting a tattoo that comes up your neck and intrudes on your face.
- A 400 lbs woman (or man, for that matter) wearing belly-button shirts with their daisy-dukes.
- Wearing a sammich-board that says, "Hi~! I'm a squid"
No, none of these things actually hurt anyone - but people who do these things are (deliberately) drawing attention to themselves. (And then react with shock and belligerence when they actually get it.)
If something is not generally accepted by society, and you KNOW it's not accepted by society, and you know people are going to smirk and roll their eyes, and make snide comments, and scoff, but you choose to do it anyway, how can you react with contempt or amazement toward everyone else for behaving the same exact way that humans have behaved
since the beginning of time?