an overdue hello

hello beautiful fuzzy friends,

it's so nice to see that a small place like this can offer some solace. i have been reading all comments and all of them have touched me greatly. i hope that you are all finding the strength in yourselves to deal with this issue; life is hard enough as it is!

as for me, well, i'm still hairy, but i guess i've been trying to see it as less of a problem and more of just another thing in my life that i must learn to overcome. does that make sense? life is short and i want to enjoy it and i'm trying to learn as much as i can from this this obstacle. it's a challenge in itself to not see it as one (ie an obstacle). sometimes i wonder how much of this is vanity...

there have been quite a few women i have seen around town, this year especially, that have just been rocking their body hair. and i don't mean scant fair hair on fair arms, i mean: chest stubble, beards, pit hair, super fuzzy legs. and these have been women of all different backgrounds and ethnicities. it has been refreshing and just makes me want to say a big "fuck you" to this shit.

so...i have been waxing my legs and threading facial hair, but that's about it. i'm wearing shorts, halters, (no crop tops yet!), sleeveless shirts (even to work), because i want to and i think i look good in them!! it's been a challenge to not be self conscious, i will admit.

i'm leaving with you two articles that have been written about body hair. I'm definitely seeing more articles on female body hair floating around on the internet. Granted, they haven't been about hirsutism, per se. However, I wonder if once this becomes more socially accepted, whether it will challenge the definition of female hirsutism....

Anyway, without further ado:

Thoughts on female body hair - from 2013, comments are interesting (and check out that hot sophia loren picture!)

It's the year of the bush - Jan 2014, the guardian. as always comments are interesting, especially the guardian pick.

Warm wishes,
A.