Looking Askance At The Hairy Eyeballs Dissing Mo'Nique's Unshaved Legs
SISTERS OF A SORT
Looking Askance At The Hairy Eyeballs Dissing Mo'Nique's Unshaved Legs
LEAVE US ALONE!
Who are we? We're women who don't shave our legs. And -- surprise -- we're even happy!
We have boyfriends and husbands and even win Oscars.
It's kinda funny that Mo'Nique keeps having to defend her hairiness to the world. I guess she, like me, grew up without that stigma. We're about the same skin color, and her legs are much hairier than mine, but I'll stand with girlfriend any day.
I remember that it took years for Nair to have a black chick in one of its commercials. The models were still all white in the '80s.
When I was young, I never thought that Nair was for me or anyone I knew.
The subject was never a topic of conversation until I enrolled in a high school that was 99.5 percent white. Whereas when my 21-year-old hairy-legged daughter shaves her legs I feel she’s just fallen for the hype.
I had a friend from the neighborhood who was very, very fair-skinned and had very very dark, long black hair on her legs. Even I thought that was a little wild but she wasn’t ostracized for it and the men loved it.
The men. I guess it's cultural because I've never known a black man who cared about that sort of thing. Maybe it's changed now, there’s so much more interracial dating, but I don’t think so.
So Mo'Nique, take your hairy legs and walk on to bigger and better things, girl. I'm right there with ya.
SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes on TV, America's favorite snack food.
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