Variety of women have been posting on social media about how embracing their body hair has affected their self-esteem and empowered them. While a lot of women support this campaign since it is long overdue, it is surprising how some are offended by this movement.
Body hair is part of each individual's body, not just in women. But it is only in women that society finds it odd, if even a strand is seen on their armpits or in other parts. They will be regarded as unhygienic and unwomanly.
Gigi Hadid is just one of the many personalities who support this movement because for them, who work in a field where society has high regards to hygiene and femininity, body hair must not be seen as a dirt or something to ridicule about.
Double standards are indeed one of the societal problems that must be addressed, because it is one of the reasons why beauty standards are like confined in a little box and if someone does not fit in that box they are ridiculed and considered as outcast.
Beauty must not be based on how skinny or fat, shaved or unshaved. It must be based on an individual's comfortability and we must not hinder their confidence in the things that they are comfortable about.
Their opinions do not and will never matter because if having body hairs or without body hairs will make an individual confident then we must not hinder their confidence, just because they don't fit the beauty standards we already have.
If one does not fit in the beauty standard that everyone dictates then they will embody a new standard that will cater to the beauty that they own.
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