{"id":750,"date":"2012-01-11T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verastic.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2012-10-18T02:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T06:25:22","slug":"ladies-please-shave-your-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/vl\/ladies-please-shave-your-legs.html","title":{"rendered":"Ladies, Please Shave Your Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t hate the messenger. Hate the message. I was sent by the men to tell you to please shave your legs &#8212; especially if you&#8217;re wearing a skirt &#8212; and most especially, if you&#8217;re fair-skinned.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The men have complained to me. They said they have spotted many beautiful girls, and just when they begin their head to toe checking out, they stop on the legs. Not because they have seen something beautiful, but because the legs are natural, and apparently, they do not want natural legs. I repeat: <strong>MEN DO NOT WANT NATURAL LEGS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But I cannot be mad at the women. If their family is anything like mine, then maybe they were told (like I was told too) that leaving legs with all the hair is the way to go, that men admire hairy legs, that shaving the legs is dangerous to the women&#8217;s health, and that all the real beautiful women have real \u00a0natural legs. That&#8217;s what my mother, grandmother, and aunt told me. They even went ahead to offer me a heroine that I was supposed to look up to: my very light-skinned aunt and her very yellow legs &#8212; complete with very long, natural, dense, possibly coarse hair.<\/p>\n<p>To their surprise (and hurt apparently), I declined their offer. I&#8217;m perfectly okay with \u00a0my silky smooth legs. Even if no one touches them, I will touch them myself.<\/p>\n<p>So ladies, you have heard from the men: shave your legs. 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