![]() Womyn did not wake up one morning and decide that removing all of our body hair is key to looking presentable society taught us this. In a 2015 article for Vox, Phil Edwards describes how American shaving companies built up a culture and societal norm of womyn shaving armpit and leg hair as fashion trends shifted towards sleeveless dresses. In her 2014 NYU Press book Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, author Rebecca Herzig estimates that American women spend more than $10,000 dollars on and nearly two entire months of their lives shaving. More and more womyn, including myself, are embracing their body hair and saying goodbye to the razor. What can you hear now? How do those vibrations travel through the air as sound? What about the time you're moving through right now, the Earth's magnetic field shielding you from cosmic rays that could rip through DNA, your fingernails growing at the same rate continents move, the sunlight that was formed in our star's core 200,000 years ago when the human race began?įrom Cosmo raving about Miley Cyrus's armpit hair on the red carpet to Allure's new Dispelling Beauty Myths YouTube series, feminine, and femme body hair has now become a hot topic again as the hairless, wax-happy reign of late 90's and early 2000's crumbles. You've been able to hear since 20 weeks before you were born. Can you feel your heartbeat? Today alone your heart will pump some 7,200 liters of blood through your body. Your eyes are taking in the light of my words at a frame rate of 14 images per second, each upside down like a camera obscura – but your brain flips things back around for you. Think about the screen you're looking at. But even simple questions or tiny discoveries can rekindle our wonder. I know that life can be wearying, and that it's easy to lose interest in – or forget to love – being alive in this world. We have a common ancestor with every human, every animal, every blade of grass. We are each of us the product of 13.8 billion years of universal evolution, and 3.8 billion years of biological evolution on Earth. Looking at the world this way changes everything. The amount of times I got a vibe from someone that I was right about, or correctly predicted what was happening in a given situation. But that's how we are: Competitive, Passionate, Protective, and especially intuitive. I mean obviously I care, BUT when someone messes with someone I love, fellow scorpios, I think we all know what happens then. Going back to the subject on revenge, I don't care as much when it's me who is criticized. My guy friend once said said "Woah, your face changed." It was my eyes. I'm a goofball personally, but sometimes if someone says something rude, I'll look at them. ![]() She dated a scorpio guy, and it's a very accurate saying that our eyes express a lot of intensity. Our eyes are said, even by other signs in the zodiac, to be very intense. Read that last line of the lyrics again for a second. Our sign is represented by a scorpion, but our mythological creature is always said to be a pheonix. And after the whole emotional mess was over, I would calmly gather my soaked tissues, sweep them into the garbage can, place the tissue box back in its usual spot, declare myself “fine” and to move on. They would understand, and encourage me to let it out, which further made me feel more embarrassed and ashamed because I didn’t want to be so vulnerable and seem so weak. Unable to face those who wanted to help me, I’d just send them messages of false-reassurance, saying that I was fine, and I was just crying to calm down. From insensitive comments, to grieving over a lost friendship, to feelings of loneliness, I would often try to tell myself to stop, that I shouldn’t be crying over something, that I was just making it too big of a deal. There were so many moments where I would just be in my room, surrounded by balls of wet, crumpled up tissues, the tissue box in my hand. When people say that girls are emotional and cry a lot, I think that was true, much to my surprise, of myself this year. ![]()
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