Hair Removal is for Pussies

It is possible that excess facial and or body hair is a Jewish trait, but
not necessarily an original one nor a desirable one. My wife's doctor told her
that specifically Ashkenazi women have an excess of testosterone, which causes
the excessive body and or facial hair.

Rashi on Devarim (Deuteronomy)  22:5 says that removal of
underarm and pubic hair is a style of (presumably Jewish) women to the extent
that a man is forbidden to remove his.

We are told in the Book of Samuel (Shmuel II Chapter 23) that Amnon raped
his half sister Tamar. Tamar herself was from an originally nonJewish mother.
In verse 15, after the rape, it says that Amnon hated her. The Talmudin Sanhedrin
21a says that he hated her because she had tangled pubic hair which injured
him. Rava explains the verse Yehezkel (Ezekiel) 16:14 "your name will go
out among the nations for your beauty" to mean that Jewish women do not
have underarm hair or pubic hair. The reason that Tamar did have is because her
mother was a yephat toar (a bride captured in war, i.e. a convert). Whether or
not most Jewish women at the time of the Talmud (200-500 CE) or Rashi (11th
century) had lots of body hair or not, it is clear that the classic Jewish view
of Jewish beauty is to remove it.

The traditional Sephardi preparation for Mikvah (ritual bath after
menstruation) requires shaving off all pubic and underarm hair. To this day,
significant Sephardi poskim (deciders of Jewish Law) posken (rule) that if the
wife did not remove the underarm and pubic hair before immersion in the Mikvah,
the immersion is invalid.

I would think it is obvious that if pubic hair and underarm hair in classic Jewish
thought going back thousands of years is considered detracting from Jewish
feminine beauty, then certainly facial hair such as a mustache or beard which
is universally considered masculine should be considered a detraction from
classical Jewish beauty, not an enhancement.

The concept of Jewish women beautifying themselves is also a part of classic
Jewish thought. When the Jews came back from the Babylonian exile, Ezra made
special laws to encourage cosmetics merchants to travel and sell freely in the
Jewish communities so that the Jewish women could compete successfully against
the shikses.

In short, going au naturel with excess body and facial hair is not standing
up for Jewish ethnicity, it goes against the classic concepts of Jewish beauty.
Beautifying oneself to attract the attention of a potential husband or to keep
a current husband's eyes from straying is an activity which is encouraged by
classc Jewish thought and literature going back thousands of years.

I was expecting something different from that subject line.

I say go for it! Love your hairy self. I mean whereas true hirsutism is surely extreme, the fact that women naturally have a few hairs here or there is something that only an obsessively artificial and emotionally sterilized community would value to the degree that we do in the states. During adolescence I saw nothing wrong with sexy women in France accepting the fact that hair grows under their armpits and on their legs. But unfortunately America's "see no hormone/feel no hormone" culture has even started to wear off on me over time. 

Also, very dark hair on very light skin makes the contrast stand out much more starkly. But I don't view that as a woman's fault. On the face, yes. But elsewhere? People just need to get over this stuff.  

RE: "it is obvious that if pubic hair and underarm hair in classic Jewish
thought going back thousands of years is considered detracting from Jewish
feminine beauty"

So too in Islam; the sunnah mandates that Muslims - both male and female - remove their pubic hair at least once in forty days. And from what i understand this is pretty common across the contemporary Arab and Islamic world.

Surely this was common throughout the Middle East, and it was only with the Ashkenazic diaspora that women began to leave their bodily and facial hair intact?