When it comes to personal hygiene, I think we can all agree that it's one area in our lives where skimping on time or effort probably isn't the best move. That's why it can be so helpful to get reminders about hygiene that we might sometimes overlook or may have pushed to the backs of our minds. And when I cam across an AskReddit thread about simple hygiene rules many people for get about, I knew I'd find a goldmine of helpful, diverse information.
Unfortunately there's a lot of misinformation out there about our health, especially when it comes to women's bodies. Often in the media, people talk about women's appearances as being synonymous with health or hygiene, when that isn't necessarily the case — and even if it were, it's not anyone else's place to comment on it anyway. One common instance of this is when we talk about how women maintain their body hair, such as whether or not they remove it from certain areas — and what's more, we sometimes conflate this with how "clean" or "hygienic" their decision is. In reality, of course, the removal of body hair or choosing to wear makeup or any other number of appearance-based decisions have nothing to do with our actual health or hygiene —and again, either way, we don't get to make those decisions for anyone other than ourselves anyway.
Even outside of women's bodies, our culture is quick to label talk about our anatomies or bodily functions as "too private" or "too gross," thus brushing things under the rug. This can be dangerous, not only because it leads to people being misinformed about their bodies and health, but because it contributes to unnecessary taboos and stigmas as well.
Source: bustle.com
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