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I'm Lindsay. This is where I post artwork (sometimes mine, mostly other people's), weird thoughts, and interesting things the internet tide washes in. (reblogged pictures of cats & feminist quotes)

According to a 1999 Bristol-Myers Squibb study, forty-one million American women between the ages of fifteen and seventy-four have removed unwanted facial hair within the past six months, and approximately twenty-two million American women remove facial hair at least once a week. Whether it’s the translucent, downy hairs that appear on a women’s upper lip during adolescence or the darker, coarser hairs that ebb and flow with hormonal adjustments in their twenties and thirties, if it’s there, it’s “unsightly”; if it’s unsightly, it’s gone. But these numbers bring up another question: If so many women have facial hair, why is it considered abnormal? And if so many women are removing their facial hair, then isn’t facial hair a genuine part of the female experience as it is one of the male experience?

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Beyond the Bearded Lady; Outgrowing the Shame of Female Facial Hair - Aimee Dowl (2005) in BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (via weirddivide

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