At Temple University, the student newspaper is seemingly excited about a trend that has been “gaining momentum”: “body positivity,” which entails women ditching the idea of shaving their legs, and in other cases, their armpits.
The Temple News trumpeted, “Body hair positivity is gaining momentum as women are increasingly shrugging off the need to follow beauty standards.” The newspaper spoke to two students eschewing traditional standards; one, a 6’1” senior, asserted that she had stopped shaving her legs in high school, explaining, “I’m 6-foot-1, so it takes a lot of time and then the hair grows back right away. I have blonde hair, so it just seems pointless.” She recalled, “I was on the water polo team and there were a lot of guys … who were like, ‘You’re so disgusting. That’s so gross.’ My comeback for a lot of guys who say things like this to me is, ‘When was the last time you shaved your legs?’”
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