Why do women have to shave their legs and armpits and men don't?

Who said they had to? Some shave; some don't.

You don't HAVE to do anything. However, in the American culture most women want to have nice looking legs and pits so they can wear shorts and sleeveless tops and look dainty and clean. Most men don't care if they look scroungy.

I wouldnt say women have to but it looks better. I guess I have never thought of it like that. Yes it is double standards, but isnt most things when it comes to men? lol

I was going to say the same as xbrendax. That is probably a good reason why, though I don't really like hairy armpits (ugh!!)

It might be because a man is suppose to be hairy, macho, and (manly), where as a woman is suppose to be smooth, clean shaven and feminine!

It's not a have to, it's a get to. Who wants that itchy hair anyway? Poor guys, it they were to shave it off, they'd be the laughing stock!

Well we don't exactly have to if we don't want to but we choose to do it instead of being alone living with a bunch of hairy cats. I think men find a shaved woman very sexy so we do it to be wanted and feel sexy. My sister-in-law has tried something called Veet and she says it is good and keeps the hairs off longer then shaving and the hair removal product Nair. I use wax strips and ocasionally shave. But they are lotions out there that slow down the growth of hair with regular use this works also because I use a lotion by Jergens called naturally smooth. Well to each there own.

I definitely think it's a double standard. One day my FATHER asked me why I didn't shave my legs. I asked him why he didn't shave his, then I yelled at him for even LOOKING at my legs, and told him fathers should not look closely enough at their daughters legs to notice!! THAT shut him up pretty quickly.

coz men like it that way!!and women to please their men shave it.

Women don't have to. They choose to. I chose not to shave my armpits for many years. Now I shave them because my girlfriend likes it. And when she likes it, it means good things for me. ;) I don't shave my legs because leg hair really doesn't bother me.

Yeah no...woman's hair grows long and beautifully from the head...and thats it. Anything else is shaved...it's simply considered good hygeine for women these days, and socially unacceptable for a woman to walk around with furry legs. It's simply a common understanding

i don't have hair in my leg so i don't have to shave it. i believe if we shave hair, hair grow much thicker than usually .yug

well i like women with stubble or hair in their armpits so i dont have the double stardard thing in this issue :D