So much hair....Why is it there?

Hair is such strange thing...don't ya think?

When we use hair as a descriptive word... "Hairy" it isn't always a positive thing. Look at that hairy man, that hairy creature... it usually denotes an animalistic and/or a manly characteristic.






Yet when we are talking about the hair on our head it usually is a good thing and many times to have a lot of it is seen as a feminine characteristic. When we start to lose that mop on our head there are generally some negative emotions. Many medications and potions of sorts out there to keep that hair or grow it back again. Yet when it comes to other body hair for women: that leg hair, arm pit hair, oh that shady little peach fuz mustache, nose hair, toe hair and dare I say it....the dreaded bikini line. For men: nose hair, ear hair, and sometimes facial hair, back/chest hair are also occasionally a problem. So hair grows readily where we don't want it and there are many cure-alls some more painful than others and some more effective/long lasting than others; all looking to help us get rid of that nasty, embarrassing and socially unnacceptable hair. If you look over this list I have above it doesn't seem fair that socially it's way more acceptable for men to have hair just about everywhere and women have to get rid of almost all of it! Anyway, that's not the main point, just a little side note that I thought I would throw in while I was at it.
I wonder though, is it society that tells us this hair must go or is it an individual matter?
I have found that there are some who follow these social norms and then there are some who do not... so some realize they remove that hair because it's socially unacceptable and then there are some who feel like they really don't want it to be there.... I have to ask though if that is really the case, does it really bother us to have that hair or is it a difference of whether or not we care what others think? Or is it that we've been in a society that tells us what to think about body hair and some have began to believe it to be a basic truth?