who makes the rules about body hair?!

Just did a project in my gender class about the taboo of body hair on women in the US. Why do I have to shave my pits to be pretty? For my part of the project, I photoshopped some pictures of women:

So here is this image of a woman. I asked my class to raise their hands if they thought this was girl was attractive, and almost everyone in class raised their hands.
Then I showed them this picture:

This is what the girl ACTUALLY looks like. This is the original image. She has hairy armpits. I then asked my class to raise their hands if they thought she had become less attractive with this addition of the armpit hair, and again, almost everyone raised their hands.

I just think it is crazy. I mean women naturally have hair on their bodies. Why is it more attractive to shave it? For our presentation we just went through how business pretty much created this social construct of how women need to shave in order to sell products for hair removal and therefore, make money.

Then we tried to talk about WHY men and women now found it unattractive for women to have hair. A pretty big discussion erupted between two people, one side saying that she didn't need to shave her body hair because it is her natural state, and the other side saying that since our society deemed that as more attractive, she should ascribe to those rules or just accept her ostracization (did I just make up that word?).

Who knows. I don't think that women should have to shave their body hair if they don't want to, and I think women should still be seen as attractive if they don't, but I still will shave and honestly, still be caught off guard when I see a woman with hairy legs and armpits.

Weird!