Swedish model receives rape threats after posting image of hairy legs on Instagram
Swedish artist, photographer and model Arvida Byström claims her recent campaign with Adidas resulted in unsolicited threats of violence after she posed with visible leg hair. Byström, whose work challenges traditional ideas of femininity, said she’s received rape threats in her direct messages.
“Me being such an abled, white, cis body with its only nonconforming feature being a lil leg hair. Literally I’ve been getting rape threats in my DM inbox,” she captioned the Sept. 25 post on Instagram. “I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like to not possess all these privileges and try to exist in the world. Sending love and try to remember that not everybody has the same experiences being a person.”
She added: “Sending love and try to remember that not everybody has the same experiences being a person. Also thanks for all the love [rose emoji] got a lot of that too.”
The social media star — whose Instagram following numbers nearly 200,000 — received an outpouring of support from users on the platform. The photo was “liked” more than 20,000 times and received more than 1,000 comments.
“How people could get so offended about hairy legs in 2017?” wrote one user. “Shame on them. That's really sad.”
“I can't believe people would be so horrible over Unshaved legs,” another user said. “Thank you for being real, you are amazing and beautiful. I haven't shaved my legs in 20 years or my pits, why should I?”
Another commenter wrote: “Gorgeous photo and gorgeous woman! This shouldn’t even be a discussion, because it shouldn’t be ‘against social norm’ for women to have body hair!”
http://www.ibtimes.com/model-says-she-received-rape-threats-posing-unshaven-legs-2598385
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It is her hairy legs or her attitude that the boys don't like?
When I was 18 working as a waiter in a summer camp, they had a contest for finding the guy with the hairiest shoulders. Unfotunately I only came second. I think the winner was an Orangutan.
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