shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


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It's truly insane and awful that women are excited to have hairless bodies like just shaving your legs it's an incredibly long time concerning process let alone your entire body. Maybe I just have coarse hair but the razor gets clogged and needs to be rinsed after nearly ever stroke and there just never stops being hair. I decided to try and shave my legs and groin for the first time in a while and after an hour I still hadn't gotten all of it. You can hardly even tell I shaved. Ridiculous. I'm sure it's easier if you do it regularly but it's pretty damn hard no matter what I think it's just a lot of surface area and hard angles


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In an effort to combat perfectionism and wasted time, I just very quickly do a deliberately haphazard job.

In shower, letting conditioner do its thing → turn water hot → pick two body parts (three if I'm feeling particularly ambitious) → soak body parts + razor in hot water → swipe swipe rinse swipe swipe swipe rinse swipe swipe swipe swipe thorough rinse done.
Turn water to preferred temperature and finish the usual.

Do I miss entire chunky columns of hair? I certainly do.
But being able to do regular upkeep is better than it being such a gargantuan task that I. Just. can't make myself do itttt.
But with this, you just pick different body parts each time (or same one if you missed enough).
Will just have hair at different cycles of growth in different parts of body instead of ever being perfectly hairless but whatever i'm picking my battlesss.
(..ditto with concern for wasting water — with my mental blorps this definitely isn't a waste for meee)

Adjust if you are prone to ingrown hairs or anything else that requires making hair removal a greater hassle than it needs to be

I've just decided to embrace the leg/arm/belly hair. I used to, but I gave up at some point between idk 3 and 7 years ago and I haven't really bothered since. Though it's probably not especially noticeable since mine is rather light on my arms and legs.