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From: ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Self Mutilation
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 15:05:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 15:05:28 1985
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> From: shor@sphinx.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
> > From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan)
> >> From: holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes) <1488@dalcs.UUCP>
> >
> >> I have always disliked the idea of self mutilation, as practiced by man or
> >> women. The shaving of leg hair is just as barbaric as the shaving of facial
> >> hair.  It is in the same class as wearing lip discs.
> >
> > And cutting your hair, and trimming your fingernails...
> 
> I don't think so.  Cutting your hair, trimming your fingernails, etc. is
> for your own comfort and convenience.  While I don't necessarily agree
> that shaving your legs or beard is self-mutilation, I do think it's done
> primarily to bow to miscellaneous pressures to conform to some sort of
> social norm.  It seems to me that each person should be able to choose
> what's comfortable for him/her, without having to worry about what other
> people will think, whether or not it will cause problems on job
> interviews and in social situations, etc.
 
I haven't shaved in quite a while due to lack of time, but every
time I wear tights or long johns with snug ankles (and I wear
them a lot here in Oregon) I wish I had... they pull on the
hairs and itch and...  
Social norms, pfui.  

Ellen