There is a huge stigma around girls with hairy legs, or just hairy anything. We're often told that men cannot stand this and that we should just shave off our body hair in order to be seen as hygienic or attractive. Even men have told us they dislike girls with body hair whilst they are covered in it from their faces to their balls with legs looking like furry baseball bats. What's worse is that the men saying this are currently growing hairy tarantulas that they don't know how to shave out of their anuses.
Some of us have been told this by the men in our lives, others would experience bullying in middle school or high school just as our bodies are beginning to change and transform, some changes we didn't necessarily know what to do with at such a young age. Having body hair has always been purported as having little to no hygiene. But what does body hair have to do with a woman's personal hygiene? Why are we seen as undignified or disgusting when the truth is that it's actually the opposite?
Hair is actually very tactically placed on our bodies in order to protect us from bacteria and irritants. For example, our eyelashes aren't just there to be pretty little eye curtain strands. They in fact have a purpose for growing out of our eyelids. Another is the hair that encompasses our lady parts. There's a reason why there's a notion or joke about pornographers in the 80's having less risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. Some jokes have partial truths in them. All in all, our body hair's just here to protect us.
In most Asian countries, people are more tolerant of women having body hair as it is hereditary and overall, just due to genetics whether or not it grows thickly and the sheer volume of it. In terms of attracting the opposite sex, most men don't even notice the difference in shaved girls and girls with hairy legs. Like the barbaric creatures they are, their eyes seep through the leg hair and can only see the soft, plush and meaty leggyness females have to offer.
Women who are shaved or not get hooted and hollered at all the same, not that that is our "feel good" metric but is just an example as to how some men aren't that observant or as finicky about irrelevant things. If we can tolerate their dissent for razors unless it's for their faces, then they can tolerate ours. Every single person has a different definition of what they find sexy, but before you consider another person's perspective, have you considered your own? And do you measure up to it? Because it is the only standard you should ever worry about.
But having body hair and keeping it isn't about what the opposite sex will think of us. It's the pure and unadulterated acceptance of one's bodily functions and acclimating to our own standard of beauty. The underlying message of this all is the confidence that we get when we finally accept ourselves and our bodies. What's sexier than a woman in love with herself?