A Danish woman says she refuses to shave her moustache or unibrow in order to ‘weed out’ bad dates.
Eldina Jaganjac, a tutor from Copenhagen, grew up becoming more and more frustrated with the expectancies placed upon women, particularly the difference in hair removal compared to men.
The 31-year-old stopped using a tweezer to remove the hairs between her eyebrows and shaving her upper lip back in March 2020, soon realising she felt just as feminine with the hair there.
Eldina Jaganjac is a 31-year-old Danish woman that says she refuses to shave her moustache or unibrow to ‘weed out’ bad dates.
The woman is a tutor from Copenhagen who grew up becoming more and more frustrated with all the expectations that society has placed on women, particularly when it comes to hair removal when compared to men.
So, the 31-year-old decided to stop using a tweezer to remove the hairs between her eyebrows and shaving her upper lip back in 2020. She just realized that she felt just as feminine with the hair there.
Eldina isn’t concernd with what she looks like in any way, but she claims that she still had to deal with men on the street shouting ‘pluck that’, or staring at her eyebrows like ‘she has a third head’. According to her, though, this just helps ward off people that she doesn’t want to be around.
She believes that her facial hair and unibrow allows her to keep out of ‘conservative’ suitors who want to be with her just because of her looks.
“Before I let my unibrow grow out, I did feel like there were extremely limited options to how women were supposed to look. If a man doesn’t shave and doesn’t pluck his eyebrows, no one notices or comments and it’s nothing out of the ordinary.’ Just like many other women, I have learned to police myself. For instance, I used to not feel comfortable going outside unless my eyebrows were the accepted small size, and I wouldn’t go to the gym unless my legs were clean shaven.” – she explains.
She has now chosen to focus on the tasks and goals that she needs to have done and less on how she appears while doing them, and whether people like her or not. She notes that she was uncomfortable at first, but if some people have nothing to do other than yell at strangers, so be it!
Source: Unilad
