Poorva Chavan
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Written By: Poorva Chavan | Updated : June 11, 2015 2:32 PM IST
Can you guess what the new summer trend is? It's growing your underarm, hair, and it is catching on big-time. A Chinese women rights activist has started a contest in China, where she has asked women to send their pictures with hairy or unshaven underarms. Recently in USA, a celebrity was highly criticised for not shaving her underarms while she attended some award function. The young actress promptly responded by tweeting that's her personal choice and asked everyone to cut the crap!
She tweeted:
It's just my own personal preference. That being said please can we stop talking about pits? #bored#sophialorenpic.twitter.com/BVaqr80B8H Jemima Kirke (@jemimakirke) June 3, 2015
Following this whole debacle, many young women from across the globe started posting their pictures with underarm hair on instagram.
So is the story of the summer trend. I ask you ...Would you like to flaunt your underarm hair?
I would not like to do that. But again, it's a personal choice. I grew up watching hair removal commercials where the model flaunts her clean shaved and white underarms and sub-consciously I always wanted my underarms to look like that. I am not happy with even a little trace of hair, and I always keep a razor handy. I travel in local trains, I do yoga, I raise my arms now and then to high five and what not. And I would not like to show my underarm hair to the world and yes I don't really fancy looking at a woman wearing a sleeveless shirt and showing off hairy armpits. But that's my problem, not hers.
Similarly, if someone else tells me that it's her choice to grow her underarm hair and show it off to the world, I am A-okay with it. Because It is her body, her underarm hair, her choice and what I think of her, is my problem not hers.
It's things like these that make us believe we are supposed to live a certain way. We are supposed to be a certain dress size, we are supposed to have long hair, we are not supposed to adjust our underwears in public. Like our body is ours, so is our mind. We should do what we want, and not let stereotypes make us believe into something superficial. It is high time we make our choice and live the way we want to.
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