Feminism

Is Real Women Empowerment, Hidden In The Hairy Armpits?

Do hairy armpits represent women empowerment and feminism?

Mehekk Bassi
Voice Out!
Published in
6 min readOct 6, 2021

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Honestly, what someone decides to do inside their armpits is absolutely their own personal business, unless they start shoving the pictures in your face. That’s it. I said it. It couldn’t be said in a more direct way than this.

We have been seeing a lot of pictures of empowered women, who proudly flaunt and celebrate having hair in their armpits — wait for it — despite having a completely clean, hair-free body 🤦🏻‍♀️

Why?

Lourdes Leon, Madonna’s 24/yo daughter on Met Gala
Lourdes Leon, Madonna’s 24/yo daughter on Met Gala

Honestly, I wouldn’t even have discussed this in a story, but after seeing this (and more pictures), I decided to. Why not, after all? If people are okay posting their hypocrisy on internet, why can’t someone post their opinion about that hypocrisy?

Lourdes Leon on a beach, flaunting her hairy armpit and hair-less, clean body!
Lourdes Leon on a beach, flaunting her hairy armpit and hair-less, clean body!

I’ve seen enough pictures of women flaunting hair on their body-parts. Body-parts where they are not supposed to be having hair, as per the social norms. Personally they are free to do whatever they want, but as per society rules, it is viewed as an obligation to have a hairless…

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