Tim Zobu
Tim Zobu
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

I think you sound really cruel and I doubt your daughter will thank you for it when she’s older (I’m predicting that she’ll develop anxiety if she’s not anxious already). Children like to fit in, and you projecting your values on to her is just as unfair as someone religious insisting that their child practise their religion. You say that: “The biggest part of this for me is preserving my daughter’s right to a childhood, to avoid rituals that at their core are part of the continued objectification and degradation of women and their bodies”, but it would appear that in this case you might actually be taking away her childhood — what does she want to do? Also you seem to forget that as adults, women are well within their rights to do whatever they like with their bodies. If they want to remove their body hair to appeal to men (or women) who prefer this — they can, they have agency. If they choose not to, guess what, they can do that too, and appeal to the men (or women) who prefer this. N0-one’s stopping anyone from doing whatever they like or being whatever they like — and it’s a pretty immature (and insecure) position to take that people only do things because they’re worried what other men (and women) might think. These issues don’t matter to secure adults.

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