Anonymous
Smash the Patriarchy!
Today, I had to explain to my boyfriend that yes, girls do get armpit hair, we just have to shave it. FML
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
United States
Today, my boyfriend asked me why girls don't have armpit hair. FML
manutdlol
Malaysia
Today, I found out that my girlfriend has more armpit hair than me. FML
unbelievable
United States
Today, my boyfriend told me he'd help me shave my mustache. I'm a girl. FML
Anonymous
Newmarket, Canada
Today, my daughter asked me to get her razors. When my 19-year-old son saw them he asked what they were for, to which my daughter replied, "For my armpits." My son then said, "Girls don't grow armpit hair." FML
Anonymous
F*ck the patriarchy
Today, I watched as my girlfriend painfully plucked her eyebrows for half an hour. She is willing to do this, but not shave her armpits on a regular basis. FML
It’s just peach fuzz on my cheeks, but still
New York, United States
Fuzzy logic
Today, I had to come to terms with having more facial hair than my boyfriend, despite being female since birth. FML
bojangles
United States
Today, I told my boyfriend that I don't like his facial hair and that he should shave it off. He replied, "You first." FML
Anonymous
Smash the patriarchy
Today, I explained to my teenage daughter that enough was enough and she needed to start shaving her armpits again, stating it was unladylike and unsanitary. Her only response was, "If it's so unsanitary, why don't you make my brother do it?" I give up. FML
mustache girl
Magog, Canada
Today, I waxed my upper lip hair. My boyfriend later told me that he missed my mustache rubbing onto his. FML
pixiebubz
Australia
Manchild
Today, I told my boyfriend I had an appointment for laser hair removal. He responded by making "pew pew" noises and pretending to shoot my underarms. He's 28. FML
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turnabouttrial 21
wait till you have to tell him girls also have to poop.
AmbrosiaFan 19
Actually you don't HAVE to shave, society makes us shamed into shaving... (Yes I shave)...
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turnabouttrial 21
wait till you have to tell him girls also have to poop.
JackFaire 27
Except girls have bathrooms they don't have armpit hair. I was 17 before I realized that girls grew armpit hair too because no one tells us guys that women shave their armpits. It's not like girls were giving us the details of their grooming habits nor that we were asking. Women don't typically grow facial hair either so there was precedent for women not growing hair in places that guys do. It's not unreasonable to see girls never having armpit hair and come to the conclusion that like beards it's just something they don't have.
PenguinPal3017 19
Never saw Home Alone growing up? Must be a boomer.
AmbrosiaFan 19
Actually you don't HAVE to shave, society makes us shamed into shaving... (Yes I shave)...
EmDizzle2007 28
society never gave a shit. razor companies wanted more money, so they started aiming at women.
JackFaire 27
Originally yes but like diamond rings for engagement rings it's become so ingrained in our culture that people will treat you like a garbage person if you don't adhere to decades old marketing.
distortedcognition 17
Y’all must be incredibly young or from an area that has crappy sex education
Charlie Given 28
Probably both I too was from a school district that sex ED was very minimal, like there was barely anything beyond explaining that their is 2 sex's we weren't even taught anything beyond women have a period and men don't, that was literally it, I learned the most about women from my first gf and female BFF 🙄 American education for ya
mssileas 25
Not at all, I had the same conversation with a 23 year old, regularly educated college student - he had just never come across the image of a woman sporting armpit hair lmao And probably never gave it a second thought, either I mean, women shave their naked armpits in razor commercials, don't you dare show a single actual hair on a lady! How, as a German, he missed Nena and her famous pit hair in the music video to '99 Luftballons', I don't know.
Laurea Lindroos 8
I think most men just don’t bother learning anything about the female body 🤷♀️ that’s how they miss everything - they just don’t care enough
bobsanction 18
Nobody is making you, you choose to do it.
Laurea Lindroos 8
Well... is it a choice if that’s what you’re told you should do before you even have armpit hair? 🤷♀️ or just having the knowledge that if you don’t shave and that happens to show in a picture or video, you risk getting publicly shamed?
Nhayaa 21
You don't have to. You choose to. Different concept.
ThatOneLonelyAsian 31
I shave my armpit hair and I'm a guy, i wonder if he knows that you don't have a d*ck
JackFaire 27
Makes sense. You also don't have a beard and mustache but it's not because you shave them away. From a guy's POV as long as he's never seen a girl with armpit hair then he's going to mentally pair it with the fact she can't grow facial hair unless told otherwise. You were the one to tell him otherwise. I didn't know until I was 17 and I worked with a girl that doesn't believe in shaving. It was mind bending. There are a lot of things like that where based on what we're perceiving we assume it's a certain way and no one bothers correcting those notions but then acts shocked when we state them.
Sonotsuave 37
Yes but to be fair no rule in society ever explicitly stated that it’s upon the individual to correct other individuals regarding such rules. People have to learn that shit for themselves
PenguinPal3017 19
Women have armpits?! Since when?!