Quote heard today:

"I have this cut on my leg that's really annoying.  So when I'm shaving it's awkward.  So one of my legs is really hairy.  Sorry too much information!"

'Too much information' is when someone says something deemed too personal, revealing, disgusting, or otherwise inappropriate for the social situation.  Apparently, the fact that women are human beings is disgusting and inappropriate. 

Body hair is one of the most fundamental aesthetic aspects of a human being.  For a typical healthy person, it covers most of the body.  It reminds us of our less-evolved ape-like state.  It serves various functions that make sure our system continues to work well.  Despite this, for women, hair anywhere besides the head is considered to be unnatural, rather than natural.  The fact that the gal I quoted above felt the need to assure us that the idea of herself, a woman, having body hair was "too much information" suggests that the female body is inherently repulsive, and must be adequately tamed by consumer culture in order to make it acceptable.

In order to have a fully holistic understanding of misogyny, things even as trivial-sounding as the expectation for women to remove their body hair can not be ignored.  It is not the act itself of the removal of the body hair that is a problem--of course people of any gender should be entitled to present themselves however they please.  Rather, the standard that the "normal woman" is actually less human and more object (in the sense that her presentation tries to deny one of her most basic human physical qualities) is the problem.  The idea that women are "less human and more object" than men is at the heart of just about every human rights issue relating to women.  It is used to legitimize domestic violence, women's lack of political representation, and disregard for reproductive rights.  Thus when I heard a woman today herself acknowledging that she was less human, it was no casual little comment.

Ladies, you are not intrinsically gross.  You are not too much information.  Do as you like with your body hair, but please acknowledge that you are a human being, otherwise we can't expect anyone else to think you are either.