‘Your body hair is disgusting’: A Mother’s Strict Opinion on Not Shaving Gives Her 16 Year Old a Negative Impression on Beauty Standards

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    r/AITAH 10 hr. ago • burner_973 AITA for wearing a bikini without shaving my body
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    I (16F) went to the beach with my parents and brother yesterday and I wore a bikini. I don't shave anywhere other then like my armpits and because it's just not really a big deal and i'm blonde so you can barely see my body hair unless you're like really close to me and staring at my legs lol. I just don't really have a lot of body hair, it's only
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    noticeable if you're looking for it but like that would be a weird thing to do. Apparently I have too much for my mom though because as soon as I put my bikini on she told me that I should've shaved and that it's like so unhygienic she yelled at me and called me disgusting and a bunch of other stuff. I don't get why she cares so much? Like my
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    brother only had shorts on and he didn't shave at all, I don't get why it's unhygienic for me but not him? My girlfriend thinks I look hot so I don't really care what anyone else thinks tbh. My mom said I embarrassed her so idk AITA?
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    I think she's totally overreacting but idk maybe i'm wrong
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    peakpenguins • 10h ago NTA, I'm really sorry that your mom sucks. There's nothing "unhygienic" about hair or we'd expect men to shave too. I haven't shaved my legs for months and not a single person I know gives a single
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    Kishapawpad • 10h ago Body hair has nothing to do with hygiene, and your mom is going too far. How you appear is mostly your business, unless it's very inappropriate somehow.
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    In this case i would suggest you not take it serious, you don't deserve to get called disgusting for that.
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    RunZombieBabe • 9h ago ΝΤΑ It is your body and you do what you like. I am sorry your mom treats you this way, she should be the one to tell you, to be yourself, not internet strangers.
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    Don't listen to anyone who is trying to tell you what to do with your body.
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    Loud-Leather-2374 • 8h ago I'm a 34 year old mom, men are lucky if I shave my dark. brown hairs. It doesn't bother me, why should it bother them. Don't let your mom discourage you or make you feel any kind of way about such a minute thing! Keep your head up girl
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    Hungry_Godzilla • 8h ago Your mother was projecting her own insecurity onto you.
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    futuramalamadin... 7h ago Stupid dated concepts. My wife hasn't shaved her legs in 6 years and i couldn't imagine giving a about that.
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    Investment-Dram... 9h ago lol, that's your mom's hang up. As a person with blond body hair also, you are correct, it's not that noticeable unless folks are looking for way to long at a CHILD (ur 16 after all) and announcing that it's super weird and creepy for grown
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    adults to comment on a child's body hair especially when it comes to how they prefer others to look. Plus, shaving is personal preference at best and not dirty or clean in any way. After all you yourself pointed out the double standard. Just keep doing
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    standard. Just keep doing you op. The only person who gets a whisper of consideration of opinion is your partner (and even their input is not that important). ΝΤΑ
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    - Ok-Fold-3700 • 8h ago NTA. But your mother is. Please send her the link to this thread, she needs a portion of reality.
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    Ok-Medicine4684 • 9h ago NTA, this is nonsense. Nothing unhygienic about body hair in general, much less your legs! You do you.
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    Tricky_Personality54 ⚫8h ago. NTA its up your mother is your bully. She is absolutely overreacting. Why is the hair on YOUR body bothering her?? Your mother sounds like an uneducated moron. She probably doesnt even wash her legs, talking abut body
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    her legs, talking abut body hair is unhygienic. Please Shes full of ………..
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    Fabulous-Search6... 8h ago NTA. It's more unhygienic to shave. We have body hair to protect our skin and sensitive bits.

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