Cor, that looks like a portrait from the assasins’ academy graduation yearbook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think she has a point.<\/p>\n
Women with hair that short attract the wrong sort of attention and attitudes. The immediate assumption, if only of those who feel it is appropriate to voice such opinions to strangers, is that one is either a “dyke” or a cancer victim. Unless the woman in question is playing a particular part in a movie, or is a model doing a show that is avante garde<\/i>, or “edgy”, then hair that short is generally considered unattractive, and I’m pretty sure that presumptions about gender roles play a large part in that. Long hair on a woman is usually better regarded than short hair. Women often invest a lot in having long hair \u00e2\u20ac\u201d look at the tearful reactions of the would-be supermodels on reality shows such as America’s Next Top Model<\/i> during the makeover section, when their precious locks are lopped off in the name of fashion.<\/p>\n
It’s only hair. It does grow back.<\/p>\n
I loved having short hair. I loved the practicality and fuzziness of it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it was incredibly soft. I liked how it emphasised my bone structure and showed off my ears. I<\/i> thought it looked good.<\/p>\n
Six years ago I reluctantly stopped shearing mine with the clippers once a month, as I was planning on re-entering the job market and I knew it would create a poor first impression. I resent the expense of a hairdresser \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when I had it cut for the wedding in March it cost me \u00c2\u00a360! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and so I have grown it out to the point where it no longer needs that attention.<\/p>\n
Although I won’t, because in the real world sometimes being professional requires that one refrains from being unconventional, looking at this photograph made me want to cut it all off again.<\/p>\n
It was fluffy<\/strong>. We like<\/strong> fluffy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s my birthday. Birthdays are cool and special and I’ve never grown out of feeling that there is something particularly important about birthdays. I know other people feel differently about birthdays. Some seem to treat them as something to ignore: an inevitable indicator of time passing and thus mortality; another year, another set of wrinkles. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,92,40],"tags":[64,117,88,156],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-planet-sam","category-rambling","tag-lumpy-jumpers","tag-me-2","tag-photos","tag-rambling"],"yoast_head":"\n
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