Why do women hate having hair on their legs? Do men really feel the same?

I don't see the big deal as well...but my bf likes clean the body hairless except for the haid and eyebrows. I think they are used to stereotype. like girls should be hairless and men should because it looks more manly. I leave my hair like that during winter since I don't need to wear any skirts and shorts but i do when the weather gets warmer. I don't like shaving because the hair grows up faster and more comes then before. I would go with waxing. It lasts longer and if you keep on waxing, the hair will stop deffinitely. And waxing is soo painful...guys should understand us a bit more and give us a break lol

This discussion really make me smile. I'm a man, and I don't think shaving my legs is something that I would do my entire life. I too would hate to see women who would not shave their legs. And that, I don't know why. Probably, it's just how things go. Basic hygiene of our times think it so. So we follow suit. And I think this is how things are supposed to be proper for us, at least given our culture and context. Who knows in the near future the trend would be for men to shave their legs and for women to grow theirs with hair. lol

I was one of those kids that had dark hairy legs. You could see the hair on my legs clear across the room, . I got tired of hearing other girls say things about my legs, so I shaved. I don't shave all the time now that I'm married. I don't see the point in shaving during the winter months, because honestly it helps keep my legs warm. My oldest daughter is lucky. She's 11 going on 12 and I can't tell if she has leg hair, which is a good thing. So if her legs stays that way, she shouldn't have to shave for a long time. I already told her, once you shave your leg hair doesn't look the same again. Now my youngest, which is only 6, she might have to shave once she's old enough. Poor thing, already has dark hairy legs.

I like women have shiny, smooth, supple looking legs. No single element of hair. Men, all men should have hair on their legs.

well i don't also shave the hair on my legs because i'm also not used in shaving it. my bf doesn't care about it at all and the hair on my legs are thin enough so i don't bother shaving them

Well for me personally i think that is discusting. But it all depends on how we are raised. I have never been with a guy who liked hair on legs, the second i got prickly they complained hahaha but like you said different strokes for different folks! If i were with a man who liked it i would have to think he is a lil gay if he likes that!

I don't hate having hair on my legs and only shave when I have too or when I see the hair is getting too long. As far as whether or not men hate it. My husband never complains when I don't shave, but he doesn't compliment the hairs either. Different peope like different things. Now I wouldn't just let the hairs grow out, because I don't like the way it looks. But that's just me.

I hate having hair on my legs. I have dark hair and fair skin, and even though my hair is now blonde, I still remove the hair. I do not shave them because my hair grows so fast, but I use NADS and before that Alexandria. If a woman is dark skinned and her hair almost the same color as her body, or she is blond, and you cannot notice the hair, but for most of us women, the hair is very noticeable. So I guess you being dark skinned your hair is not as long and stands out like mine would. But if you were fairer skinned, those men would not have complemented you that much.

I wish I had not done in it the first place then I would not have to do it every so often. My husband isn't fussed about it but when I use to play sports when I was a teenager, ALL the girls did it and if yours were slightly hairy they would tease you LOL yeah I know it shouldn't of bothered me but it did. I think facial hair is slightly unattractive as I have seen many women with a beard. But hey like you said different strokes for different folks :)

If a woman has hairy legs, and especially they are dark color. It will be very annoying. If she wears a nice dress without shaving, it will be an eyesore. Everything seems to be perfect except for the hairy legs.

I hate it so I won't get my legs to be shaved even once. I don't want it growing. Once you shave it, according to my mom, it will continually grow longer and harder. I haven't tried once. I have hairs but its fine and not so obvious because i don't shave them.

I am with you on this one. I have never been a big fan of shaving, I just don't understand why women feel the need to dehair themselves. Another thing I don't get is why is it that men who are much hairer than women are rarely pressured to remove their hair? I had a boyfriend once who hated my hairy legs. He asked me one day why I wouldn't shave. I told him that I was saving up to get them waxed. I was still a student and he was working. He thought that I must have been saving up the money so he offered to pay it for me. I told him thanks anyway but I have the money I was now saving up the hairs! The day after we broke up I went and booked an appointment to get my legs waxed! It still makes me laugh!!! My family regularly ask when I will shave or wax, my husband though never mentions it. The weirdest thing though is that on the rare occasions when I do dehair myself no one ever notices or says anything! Go figure

I shave my legs (lower legs mostly as my hair is extremely sparse, fine and practically invisible up top,) my underarms, and I shape my *feminine* area. I've gone without shaving my legs for quite a few months when I was younger, but I can't leave my underams and feminine area go wild. My husband loves smooth legs, and how I shave everyone else, so I won't ever let my leg hair grow out again. If I found a guy who didn't mind unshaven leg hair, I'd be tempted to let it grow --- BUT I wouldn't go out in shorts or a skirt!

I myself would care if I didn't have a man otherwise I have to be shaved LOL I think it's gross to feel prickly thats why my man shaves his face lol

I feel uncomfortable if I am in public and know I haven't shaved/waxed my legs in awhile. People sometimes women more then men are often more judgemental about woman growing their leg hairs or arm pit hairs They view it as being lazy or bad hygiene instead of choice. I don't shave/wax in the cooler months and just let it grow I find they are softer when you let them grow. My husband does complain until they get long enough to stop being so prickly. In school I shaved all the time even in winter months especially once I reached High school nothing worse then a boy trying to cop a feel and get nothing but a hairy leg. Back then boys made fun of girls with hairy legs called them big foot,abdominal snowman, Hairy Harry,hairy catus and all kinds of insulting name which to their own joy they all spread the gossip about it. Not really caring for the girls feelings at all so if you didn't want lumped in with them you had to shave your legs. I was pretty hairy my mom said I was always hairy from the time I was a little girl. But after I got married I didn't shave as much until unless like I was going to town and it was to hot for pants but just being at home which I don't go anywhere alot so I shave only like once a month if I have to. I have tried waxing it hurts like you wouldn't ever be able to imagine unless you have done it yourself, I don't know how them women on television keep a straight face in the commericals about the wax..Ugh! I have tried using a electric razor since I don't shave much I always nick myself when using a razor blade but hair was always starting to grow back by the end of the day you felt prickly catus stubble. I have found out the less I bother with them the less hair I do have and the lighter and thinner it is. I dare my hubby sometimes to say a word.. he doesn't shave everyday either and as the saying goes what good for the goose is good for the gander..So power to hairy legs..Hugs!

My husband doesn't really care about my hairy legs. But I have dark hair and 'I' like to wax (not shave). I also realized that the hair grows back softer after waxing...it takes much longer to grow back. I get it done once in 2.5 months. If I had light hair I wouldn't have bothered at all because I'm lazy to get it done...but sometimes I like my legs smooth when I'm wearing certain clothes which show off my legs. But most of my 'looking nice' is for myself. My husband doesn't care about the hair part and thinks the waxing is a waste of money...lol. But it makes me feel good and so I get it done. My mother's got light hair and I really would have left it that way if I had got the same....guess I inherited my dad's genes on this one...lol

Not very thick i guess, if you just mean hairy like normal hairy not like the one who is curly thick which absolutely not good looking for a woman. If a woman is normally hairy since birth that is not so bad as it will not thick and curly and bad looking as the one that has been through shaving and grown after. Well woman needs to feel good about themselves or to feel comfortable not to feel bad and woman is tend to be clean and good looking especially their legs. As my choice i don't like very hairy legs. I want it clean and smooth.

I heard women in Germany, France, and a few other countries didn't shave their legs. I went to school with an African-American girl who didn't shave her legs and had no intention to. Me however, I shave my legs. I don't find it attractive on me at all. And I have to say the men I know and associate with prefer women with shaved legs. I have seen countless national shows where the men in the TV series make fun of women who do not shave their legs or underarms, like an easy joke for laughs. I don't think that is fair because sometimes it is a matter of culture. And different people are attracted to different things. But I'll always be one who shaves, I prefer the smoothness.

Hairy legs look too manly..and kind of spoil the femininity of a lady.

I hate seeing hair legs on women. I don't know I couldn't stand it. I shave my legs almost every day even if the hair hasn't grown back. I would prefer my legs to be smooth, silky and shiny at all times. Even in the winter.