I wrote this post some time ago. I just found it in my "draft" file.
Huh.
I guess at some point I had drawn a boundary about writing about my pubic hair growth, but I think that one post about a vagina being in your throat kind of deminished the outlandishness of the whole pubic hair growth crazy talk.
So I'mna go ahead and publish it.
Woa. Ladies… hold on to your panties! I'm goin' all no holds barred…
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What is it about getting older that makes your hair turn all gypsy and emigrate from places of respect to less acceptable locations?
I was taking a shower today and looked down to groom myself when I was astonished to find that my pubes have migrated Southward onto my inner thighs. I'm fairly sure that not so long ago (yesterday) my pube line, if you will, didn't extend beyond MAYBE one or two stragglers that may've taken up camp on my thigh… but to see that those stragglers have multiplied like rabbits and are on the very brink of industrialization is just so frustrating.
To make matters worse, also just recently, I've had to take a weed whacker to the miscreant hair on my upper lip. They've always been there, so it's not like they took root over night… I mean, I've always been wary of them, but very suddenly these quiet, introverted conservatives have gone all rogue-like on me and have decided to make their presence known! Without even asking first. And those suckers are fast. They like to cast their 5'oclock shadows. It's like they don't even care that I've let them live in peace and harmony for over 33 years. That's what gets me the most.
I mean COME. ON!
I'm getting older, wrinklier… I've got less and less stuff going for me (namely gravity). I don't need to be the woman with the mustache hairy upper lip or the woman at the pool who just can't fit it all in her suit. Can't I cut a break any where?
Ladies? Am I alone here? Isn't it enough that we have the gargantuan responsibility of mothering the entire universe!






Comments
lina
Just so you know, I am “that woman” at the pool, already. Man oh man. Oh man.
Tara
I haven’t had to worry about the thigh thing but I have got one seriously hairy face. I’m constantly having to pluck hairs from my chin & upper lip. I hate it. I feel like the mother on My Big Fat Greek Wedding with the little lady following her around with tweezers saying one more, just one more big one. Thank GOD I’m blonde or I’d look like the freakin’ bearded lady.
kim
EEEEENA! yo, chica! thanks for stopping by & commenting. i’m sitting here remembering our 2-hour-drive-to-the-columbus-zoo-with-two-babies-in-the-back-seat conversation about being properly groomed for the BIG DELIVERY! (loff you!)
kim
tara – i love that movie! hilarious scene
be glad about not having to deal with the thigh-beard… it’s just not fun having to keep up with that stuff ALL DAY. EVERY. DAY.
Amanda
I found my first old man-ish rogue eyebrow hair. I mean, this thing was waving at me and trying to declare statehood! I also found one on the very point of my chin. It had to have been there for awhile, so I’m not sure how my husband (or any other non-blind person) didn’t say SOMETHING.
Which brings me to my final point: In the light of your “women helping women” quest, can we all agree that we won’t get offended if someone (even a complete stranger) tells us we have something unseemly going on above the neck with our appearance? I mean – broccoli in the teeth, bat in a cave, mascara boogies in the corner of our eyes, hair where it shouldn’t be, etc??? I know I’d want to know….
kim
here, here! amanda!
you can rest assured that i, when in your presence, vow to always point out any thing that may seem out of place …