Man asks girlfriend to shave armpits in case his family thinks she's 'weird'
A man has been slammed online for revealing he asked his girlfriend to shave her underarm hair for a family event. His excuse was that he didn't want his friends and family to think she was "weird". Posting to an online forum, he explained that his partner doesn't like to shave her armpit hair because it makes her feel more "womanly".
He stated he normally had no problem with it, but he knew she would be wearing a "strappy summer dress" to the event and that her armpits would be exposed. Worried about what his close ones would think and if they would unfairly judge her, he asked her to shave. She refused and now doesn't want to go, causing the man to question whether he is being unfair.
Posting on the popular Reddit forum AITA (Am I the A**hole), he asked for people's opinions. "She shaves everything else, although she'll happily go kind of long between shaves, but her armpits she probably shaves once every two or three months for a special occasion if she really feels like it," he said. "I don't have an issue with this most of the time, although I'm not really used to this and would probably prefer she shaves, she's really clean and never smells bad or anything."
But it was him urging her to shave that caused trouble, as she was upset he would ask such a thing. "She got really offended and said that was really harsh of me and now she doesn’t even want to come. I don't think I'm being unreasonable asking her to shave," he explained. People were quick to tell him he was the one being insensitive in the situation, not his girlfriend.
"YTA (you're the a**hole). She likes it, as she told you... and what's important is what SHE THINKS about her body (and body hair). Did she ask your opinion on if she should shave? No? Then she doesn't want it, so keep it to yourself," one person commented. Another wrote: "Do you have hairy armpits? Why does she have to shave hers? Because she's a woman and you're a man? If you're allowed to have hairy armpits, so is she." A third added: "Humans have body hair naturally. That's the baseline for "NORMAL". It's NORMAL for her to have hairy armpits, and she can make a choice to remove it. If your family find normal body hair offensive or weird, that's their problem, and you should feel free to tell them that."
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Not everyone thought he was in the wrong though, as some people understood where he was coming from. "NAH - no harm in asking; just let it go if she declines. If you find it unattractive, let her know, then let her go. Or not," one Reddit user said. Another added: "To internet people, this will be a YTA but in the actual real world normal people would see this as you trying to protect her from something you know will happen."
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