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[V-Adore]

This is a lovely strip. I don't have much else to say about that.

[littlefallsmets]

Ah man, womb@. That's another reason why it's a good thing I am not a lady.

Though I am pretty pale for a gentleman of Italian/Eastern European descent, I am a relatively hairy dude and would have probably been a very hairy lady. I have been able to grow facial hair since I was eleven and when I decided to grow a beard recently, I put together a light beard in a week.

I would'a been one of those pudgy girls who waxes her arms weekly... under the thought that, like, if I can't lose weight, I can at least control this shit. Oh man. More and more reasons why it is a good thing.

[wombat]

I am reminded to be thankful that I don't also have the arm problem.  That's the advantage of being a mongrel instead of a purebred I guess.

[side_show]

I have the traditional aboriginal hair pattern - ie: no major body hair, but prominant brow hair.  I swear if I don't pluck it would become a single strip.  And then what people?  Then what?  Unlike my ancestors I have no use for a self-generated sun visor.

Also, deja - the image of anyone kicking Kahlo's eyebrow is somehow fascinating.  Really I'd sign Andy Warhol up for the job.

[jaydub]

To tie into another discussion: Does it make it better theorizing that you would make the type of gal who would match up with the guy you and allow restings of chins on heads?

Does the image of guy you and girl you engaged in an embrace with chin on head pressings provide comfort or nightmare fuel?

Have you been reading xkcd recently, Ash?

[theinevitable]

I have been told that she didn't really have a particularly prominent mustache or uni-brow, but that she exaggerated them in her paintings to appear more gender-ambiguous/manly. I do not know if this is true.

I have a unibrow. That shit gets plucked.

[jough]

XKCD is my new favourite web comic. 

I'm going to go ask a stranger to fly a kite with me now...

[colmore]

The fly a kite date is a killer.  A friend of mine's dad from Brooklyn dropped that hint on us once.  It's free and charming.

There was this professor where I went to school who didn't just have some visible female facial hair, she had a full on, hairs of inch long stature, wispy she-goatee.  If you asked other students about "the Goatee lady who's around Philosophy hall alot," they would inevitably know the professor.

Hats off.  That's not just a delusional "nobody notices," the deciding not to wax equivalent of a comb-over.  That's not even just a "well they can mind their own business, I'm not changing my body."  That's a full on "yeah, my body totally doesn't round peg its way into any species of normal idea of what gender is all about, and a blind man's dog will tell him from across a 100 foot room, and you know what, fuck each and every one of you who gives a shit what I look like. I've got a god damned life and a job and there isn't a single logical reason why my interactions with any of you extraneous motherfuckers should be based in any way on what bizarre choices the follicles on my face are making."  After having this revelation, I would angrily argue down anyone making fun of Prof. She-Goatee, and then follow up the argument by buying anyone at the bar who had been on my side a drink and offering the defiant prof a toast in her honor.

And yeah, if I was ever in a moment of heavy, weighting decisions, I'd go visit Cornelius at his pub.

[theinevitable]

as much as I love the concept on some weird abstract level...
ladies, remove your mustache if it is enough that you are Known for it. Same goes for goatees. Please, for all of us.

Also: do you think these women rationalize it in that, if they were men... they would grow a beard/mustache? Would they rebel against hair-removal if they were dudes?

[linnea]

When they made the movie about Frida Kahlo with Salma Hayek, they deliberately avoided giving Frida a moustache. They said it would be "Too Distracting."

Bullshit. They were afraid of portraying a woman with errant facial hair as a sexual being. They were afraid. How stupid. Man, fuck society's patriarchal view of what women oughta be like.

colmore, you've got it. Kudos to you for your kickass realization. I mean... if someone gets all worked up about someone else's appearance, then they can just go toss off. Life is too goddamned short to worry about stupid shit like that. Come on, people.

I am also Sicilian/Irish but I have very little body hair. I have a couple stray eyebrow hairs that I pluck, but that's about it. I do shave the "usual and customary" areas, though.

[Doc]

I worked with a lady last year who had a fairly prominant 'stache. It was all I could look at for the first week but then I just didn't notice it anymore.

Here's the thing about female hairy-ness: Yeah you don't need to conform to societies crazy standards, in fact I would say that the standards of most people are substantially different to that of 'society' as depicted in mass media anyway. I'll be the first to say a more natural looking lady is far more fine than the kind that still has scaffolding around her face from when she put make up on this morning.
However. I do not consider facial hair on a lady to be a particularly positive feature (though it doesn't necessarily need to be a negative one) and I think treating growing hair on any part of your body as a political statement is downright bizzare.
As a corollary I don't think incredibly hairy guys is a good look either but this might be my own feelings of inadequacy because I am not particularly hairy.

Ron Jeremy was a sexual being with a hairy back and no one gave him no respect for bucking social expectations.

[pmcd9]

Ron Jeremy was a sexual being with a hairy back and no one gave him no respect for bucking social expectations.

Well he did get a funny nickname out of it, but he has a monster cock and he's boned like 10,000 ladies so I'm guessing it doesn't bother him much.

[Ruddy Ruddy]

Every self-portrait I've ever seen of Frida Kahlo looks much more like Johnny Depp than Salma Hayek. He should have been the one to play her in the movie.

[Doc]

He could do it too.

[side_show]

And would have been a lot sexier too.