Gen Z woman views shaving as a ‘chore' — so she hasn't done it in years: ‘It's so crazy how people are scared of body hair'
A Gen Zer threw out her razor six years ago in an act of liberation — and never looked back.
'I used to shave on a very regular basis for years and it did feel like a chore, but it also felt necessary, too, as a woman to feel beautiful and hygienic and attractive,' said Georgia Peck, a holistic health coach, in her now viral TikTok video.
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Peck went on to explain the reasoning behind her shocking decision.
'First, it's honestly such a hassle and the spikiness that would begin to grow just a day after shaving was quite uncomfortable.'
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She went on to mention the inevitable ingrown hairs that would pop up, 'it became another thing I was trying to fix within myself that wasn't inherently broken.'
Shaving body hair is something many women hate doing, but feel like they have to.
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The holistic health coach then started to question the double standard: 'Why is it considered totally normal for men to have body hair but for women it's considered unattractive and unhygienic?'
These were good enough reasons for the 8.4 million viewers who watched the relatable video.
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'I wish more people did this, it would become more normalized. shame based choices suck,' said one commenter.
'I've never understood why women having body hair is disgusting, it's so beautiful to me honestly,' chimed in another person.
'It's so crazy how people are scared of body hair lol,' quipped another commenter.
'I wish more people did this, it would become more normalized,' quipped one commenter on Peck's viral video.
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'Moving past this is such a huge step in the battle on misogyny,' read another comment.
Peck isn't the first one to challenge this double standard and say sayonara to removing bodily hair.
A social media vixen who supposedly earns five figures a month ditched her shaving routine and proudly puts her body hair on display.
'Don't follow the fashion,' Calita Fire captioned a video. 'You don't need to shave.' In the video, the brunette is seen in what looks like a dressing room lifting her arm to reveal armpit hair.
She hasn't shaved in three years, yet her 'bf [boyfriend] loves it,' she said in one clip with over 43,000 views.
And these two women are among many who also don't feel the need to waste time removing body hair.
'Women are taught that it's not OK to have body hair,' the 42-year-old said. 'But I'm confident in my choice not to shave if I don't want to. It's empowering to stand my ground,' Brooklyn-based mom-of-two Maria Margolies, who stopped shaving a decade ago, told The Post.
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