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Earlier at work I was working with a coworker from a different section who I had never met. He seemed nice enough and was telling a story about how last week a citizen got violent with him. Rather than talking about the content of her character, he just kept bringing up her armpit hair.

Now I rarely shave my armpit hair or pubes, and when I do I use a trimmer. I havent shaved my legs in probably 2 yesrs now, and before that I rarely shaved those either.

In the story he told he said she had armpit hair and when she lifted her arms it looked like she had "tarantulas under there". The car chuckled a bit and they moved on (2 of these are "liberal" women, but i think they did it awkwardly). Then later on he brought it up again and said she didnt take care of herself. I kept quiet because I didnt want to start shit because we are working together due to an emergency situation, but it seriously pissed me off.

I wanted to ask him if he shaves under his armpits, and if he doesnt how is that not equally gross? The sad thing is he has a young daughter. I live in Florida and wear tanks often and no man has EVER commented on my armpit hair, only my mom and dad and they mostly did because of societal standards and not their own views

Thanks for listening to my rant 😭

I do not know where to go to talk about this, but I would definitely appreciate some insight on how to handle this.

I have a friend of a friend who had since become my friend, of about 6 years now. She is Jewish and, although she doesn't bring up her religious belief often, she is very culturally Jewish and practices holidays, etc. She definitely is liberal, I dont think socialist but we had very close circles and a lot of the same beliefs, or so I thought

Then October 7 happened, and I was (somewhat) shocked that she immediately started posting about it

Since then she has said she thinks Israel has a right to exist, but she thinks Netanyahu sucks and is evil.

Then the last two days, after what happened with Macklemore and Pink, she keeps posting about how Pink was right and Macklemore is a fake. She also shared a video from an influencer who said "reclaiming zionism, fighting anti semitism"

Has anyone dealt with anyone like this? It sucks because I thought we were friends, but i cant be friends with someone who thinks there is no genocide happening. I unfortunately can't just cut her out because we have mutual friends getting married soon

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