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Josh has been down recently.

X: Meow meow meow meow meow!
J: *cracks up*
X: You will be cheerful, or I will meow more!  That is my ultimeowtum.
J: *starestare*
X: *cracks up*

Perhaps an elaboration.

It occurs to me that my last post on shaving could be taken as disbelieving individual women's experiences with shaving.  Yee, no.  What I am expressing disbelief about is how so many women like this thing that involves time and money and effort, and that gives them very little return on this investment.  There are three reasons I can think of that women would do this:

1) Medical- or activity-related reasons.  For activities, I have heard of people who bike a lot shaving their legs for… I can't recall why, to be honest.

2) They truly like being clean-shaven, truly seriously.

3) Societal pressure.

I, based on zero studies, assume it's mostly #3, and hope that talking frankly about how oh yeah I shave due to pressure might make it easier for other women to talk about it in such terms.

…this sounds way less high-and-mighty in my head.  Goodness.

Or it's #2, in which case I really want to know why men don't shave more, if it's such a fantastic feeling.  Tone being genuine curiosity, with a small side of poking.  If it's so easy and quick and fun and gosh darn awesome, why is it primarily a thing women do?

So that's that.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

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Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.