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  1. Dan Rowden

    2008 - How Will You Celebrate The New Year?

    I didn't celebrate at all. What's to celebrate? The movement of an arbitrarily created calendar? I don't see any significance in that to the functioning of my life.
  2. Dan Rowden

    Need Moral Support

    Firstly, who cares? How about everyone who thinks this is an "appropriate" thing for women to do, and that not doing it is socially "inappropriate". This can be a powerful psychological and even practical force against which women who don't follow such trends must endure. I'm not sure you...
  3. Dan Rowden

    Need Moral Support

    My point about legal prohibitions doesn't imply such laws themselves are reasonable. I simply mean that it's reasonable to wear clothes rather than be fined, imprisoned or whatever. I'd make the same argument with respect to hair removal if it were legally mandated. I believe you can fight...
  4. Dan Rowden

    Need Moral Support

    I don't personally think there's much of an analogy to be offered between body hair removal and clothing. There are numerous practical reasons for wearing clothing up to and including legal prohibitions against not wearing such. Hair removal is a purely aesthetic concern, a fashion trend...
  5. Dan Rowden

    Need Moral Support

    There are only a couple of reasons I can think of for a woman to shave her legs: 1) some medical issue; 2) to fit in to social memes. The problem with fitting in with social memes is that they exist more or less in a moral and consciousness vacuum. To "fit in" without abandoning personal...
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