Merran Toerien, who wrote her PhD on the removal of female body hair, explained “biologically the boundary lines on body hair between masculinity and femininity are much more blurred than we make them seem”.
It’s something that’s common yet considered abnormal, natural for one gender and freakish for another. What can be dismissed as trivial is a source of deep anxiety for many women, but that’s what female facial hair is a series of contradictions.