I hope everyone had a great week last week. Hopefully this one turns out even better for everyone.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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cw: facial hair dysphoria
my hatred for shaving and my hatred for hair on my face are in a constant tug-of-war. I've been trying to be okay with having a stubble beard sometimes, but I hate that it gets me automatically read as a man.learning to accept the masculine physical traits that I have and cannot change is difficult in general, but facial hair is extra hard because I can sorta change it... if I spend hours every week sliding a razor across my face and don't mind constant skin irritation on my face and neck.
I recently learned that having a moustage was a beauty ideal for iranian women in the 19th century. It is of course not in modern times, but maybe that context can help? There were also some nonbinary identities, but i forgot the name.
There's a difference between the vallus hair on a cis woman's face, and the courser terminal hairs that are grown after a testosterone induced puberty.
Sorry, this is a pet peve, when a cis woman friend pulls out the 'I have hairy legs! / I have hair on my face!', honey, its different, i have infact been upclose ans personal with women.
my protip for youse is shave in the shower and try avoid mirrors ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (doesnt help the sensory issues, i just let it grow out a little so its softer tbh)
Cis women are not somehow immune to having terminal hair on their face, plenty of them do.
Taking estrogen also tends to soften out and slow hair growth as well as making it less dense. Anecdotally my wife had some light chest hair that near enough quit growing. YMMV of course.
When a cis woman friend "pulls out" those statements, the point is that body hair should not be associated as a masculine trait somehow, because that's silly.