Would God really give me something I should be ashamed of?

Hello world. The following was written 5/14/2017.

I had an interesting epiphany come to me as I watched a video about feminine hygiene products. Women have been being shamed for having body hair for eons. Hair on the face, legs, underarms, and groin is to be removed and hidden at all costs. A woman is not a real woman if she has body hair. Hair on a woman is grotesque. As I watched this video every single judgment which has ever been said to me or around me about it went through my mind in an instant. Every bit of it is body shaming.

I then asked myself a question. Would God really give me something I should be ashamed of? No. Would God give me something just so I can remove it every day? No. Why am I and do I shave, pluck, wax, and all the other ways to remove body hair? Because this is what I have been taught I am supposed to do by my family and society. Taught I should be ashamed of myself if I have any body hair. Judged, I must not take very good care of myself. I have been conforming to someone else’s dictates about my own body all my life. WTF!

I am now seriously considering no longer shaving or plucking. God has given me body hair for a reason. It has a function above and beyond what I have been taught to think and believe it to be. God did not give me something to be ashamed of or hate about my own body. I may not be my body, yet I do reside within it. It is the one I chose to be in when I chose to come here. I am able to accept so many other facets of the body I am in. I do believe I can accept this one too, (cough) eventually.

Blessings on your journeys my brothers. Hugs and love. You are loved. I love you.