Natalie Schriefer: The cultural expectation is that my body hair choices should be dictated by the men in my life. - NBCNewsTHINK
It started because of stress: I had had a rough week at work, and I forgot to shave. Then the rough week turned into two. By that time, the stubble on my shins was half a centimeter long. I had no idea how much longer it would grow.
Like most cisgender women, I had been expected to shave since my leg hair began growing. For me, that started around 12. In the nearly 18 years since, shaving had turned into a twice-weekly ritual. By this summer, at age 29, my feelings about growing up had understandably changed. And maybe that meant it was also time to change how I viewed my body. The night I noticed my leg stubble, I decided to experiment with not shaving.
Playing the role of an amateur scientist, I even came up with hypotheses: I predicted that people would laugh when I told them what I was doing. That’s what they’d done for my previous experiments, which had ranged fromwhat’s the best gas mileage I can get with a 20-year-old car?What I didn’t expect was the question I actually received: “What does your boyfriend think?”
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