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I got this in my email from my mum today and it made me pretty darn excited. I hope you like it to. "Just ignore the one bad word."

Thanks Mama for sending me this today!

Why I don't shave my armpits

Because I know some of you are wondering, but don't want to ask. And I am wishfully thinking about spring arriving, which means lots of sleeveless shirts for me.

So here it is. I'm gonna be up front and honest about this. Why don't I shave my armpits?

Because I don't want to. 

What a radical idea.

Because I actually like the way a splash of auburn fuzz in my underarms looks. It looks (and feels) better than a patch of itchy, 3-day-old stubble, or red bumps.

Because it's part of my body. It is not gross, dirty, or unsanitary. 

And ultimately, because why not?

As human beings, created by God, in the image of God, we seriously need to stop being afraid of our bodies. We need to stop criticizing them. The One who thought up the galaxies and arranged our solar system and created the vast amounts of creatures that inhabit this planet also created your body. You can't criticize His handiwork just because it doesn't fit into your impossible ideal created by our incredibly false mass-media culture. He created variety and our current culture is working very hard to reduce that variety to a ridiculously small set of ideals that pretty much no one fits into. 

Our bodies have hair, fat, sweat, smells, cellulite, freckles, wrinkles, bony bits, and flabby bits. Get over it.

Killing Us Softly 4

Jean Kilbourne discusses the image of women and the feminine in the media, specifically advertising, and the damage that is causing in our culture.
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Killing Us Softly 4