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“A woman’s body is not a place for politics or discussion.
The issue with body hair, with weight, with makeup, with clothing, with all these this material used for judgment is that people feel entitled to comment and criticize a woman. There is a war raging against us, with people trying to restrict our reproductive freedoms, with peers policing our sexuality, with movies fetishizing our races, with the media tossing us on a platter to be dissected and sold.
And this dissection breeds patriarchal societal pressures that enforce a narrow, shallow, twisted perception of “beauty”. One of these standards being hairlessness, associating baldness with beauty and femininity.
Modern society has been molded to find hair on women unattractive.”
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Martha Hunt for So It Goes Magazine Issue #6
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