Hey
sister, don't ask
me why
normal guys like what they like. Personally, I
couldn't care less whether or not you have
armpit and/or
leg hair, and if I was a
woman I still would rarely
shave my legs. Maybe it's my
Russian background (we are a
hairy people). You do get marked down for a
Frita Kahlo style
mustache, but not by much. Only -1 or a -0.5... easily
offset by other
qualities like the ability to help with
Python/
Perl problems, or interest in
computer games, or even a
voracious appetite for
rugburns.
I shaved my legs a couple of times. Once when I went to a
cross-dress party, and once when I was, um,
dating somebody who was mostly
into women. Duh, like her
girlfriends ever shaved their legs... she didn't even notice. Both times, it felt really nice, sliding into a pair of
jeans. Also fun to touch them.
That not noticing part, though, is
telling. If women don't care about
appearances as much as
men do... or even if there is less
consensus among women as to what is
attractive in men... the result will be that men will care less about how they look.
I sure
learned my lesson about
wasting time altering my appearance in order to
please someone.
I've read some
socio-biological explanations too (notice how there seems to be one for everything, and it's always
disturbing?). A woman's
fecundity is tied to her
youth, and a man's isn't as much. Therefore (according to this theory)
straight men are attracted to
child-like features in women--
soft contours, large eyes relative to their faces,
short stature, and lack of
body hair.
That being said, I must be some kind of
mutant because I have a thing for women who are
tall or
angular or a few years ahead of me.
Annette Benning and
Sigourney Weaver have long been my favourite actresses. No
bonus points in the
gene pool game for me, I guess.