From: Thara
As a woman, I like the feeling of smooth legs, and skin. Once I see hair start growing on my legs I immediately shave it. Why do women feel the need to make shaving a part of their daily regimen? Throughout girl culture we are used to seeing models with the smoothest, and most perfect legs. Society has shaped women to feel less beautiful if they aren’t constantly grooming and keeping up with themselves. Women are persistently mutilating their natural state of their bodies, orderly to be deemed acceptable. Since women are typically expected to shave, and look “clean” it’s shocking when we come upon someone who has a full leg of hair. When women who shave their legs regularly miss a day, they can feel maybe not as confident, or empowered. No women actually likes the process of shaving. Women grow hair everywhere but if it wasn’t for media, they wouldn’t have to feel “less beautiful” and ashamed of it. In this photo, I represented a younger girl shaving their legs. When taking this photo, I wanted to convey a message of empowerment, and confidence. I angled the camera up to make her look bigger and more confident. I wanted to use this angle to demonstrate the way women feel after shaving. I chose to take this photo vertically to have the leg fill up the screen, and have it be the main attraction. With this I wanted to foreshadow the smaller image when you aren’t as empowered, and confident when you haven’t shaved. I also cropped the photo a bit, and brightened it to give something with absurd beauty standards a more positive look. Although these habits are not ideal it’s hard to break away from these expectations. We are so used to seeing hairless women, and this is seemed as “sexy”, at a young age women are taught to meet up to society’s standards and attract the opposite sex.
2 comments:
From: Téa
I love the explanation and the photo that follows it all. Today, women don’t feel confident with leg hair or overall hair that a women “shouldn’t have.” The word “shouldn't have” is an opinion word. Women don't feel confident enough to go out with men or just as themselves. To me, the position of how it’s pictured says it’s her choice as a independent women to shave or not. Men have their own definition on what “beauty” is and that makes women today insecure in many different way. Hair can be beautiful and sexy but society is teaching everyone differently. Showing everyone that it’s not “women like” to have hair when it’s a normal thing.
From Téa
(Continuing on what I said before).... Women feel as if men have a rule on what “beauty” is for women and that affects us to think anything human like that happens to both sex is only normal for men and not women. Women are too focused on their appearance than going out, having fun, learning something new. Women should do all that and not worry about what beauty is. Media shows hairless women or makes us believe that cause it could be an edit. Its like saying, if men have hair, women shouldn't and etc. But I like to think, so should women NOT have hair on their head because men do? Women shouldn't have to hide themselves because of hair, women should be able to be theirselves. It says behind something positive for the man but negative for her. Negative because it’s possible thats not what she wants and positive because she's making him happy and not herself and herself is more important than the guy. I like the explanation on how you edited the photo lighting and cropped it and to me the lighting like means even though she's shaving, she isn't shaving for herself. She’s shaving for a man and what he thinks. But who is he? At the end, the hair will grow back. Is she going to continue to shave for the man or for herself as a women?
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