Woman at work talking about how she has to get her hair cut, despite wanting to grow it out.
She's got curly hair, which I have to assume makes it more irritating. I so understand. I've been bobbed and buzzed, permed and Dorothy Hamill'd and dyed and everything else over the years, and the growing out is such a bugger. It doesn't lay right, it's messy and unkempt and refuses to stay under a hat or in a clip. Been there, done that, over and over and over. Which is why I have mine long, not for the look of it, but because it feels good to me, and I never have to fucking grow it out again. Oh, I hack off the ends a couple of times a year, so it doesn't look scraggly, it's not the cutting I mind. Cutting is easy, a pleasure. It's the growing it past awkward stages. The worse was from buzzed to can-tie-it-back, years I'm telling you, years. I'm done, and so is my 'do. Let it be what it is, for the rest of my life.
My long hair is not a statement, save of never wanting to be arsed again about my hair. Tie it up, braid it back, it stays under my hat in the OR, and what the hell else do I really need? Oh, I could buzz it every week or so, which is not a bad option. But my face is a bit harsh for that for everyday and all places. Tempting, sure, very easy, I did like it, but, well, there is something wonderfully sensual about long hair, and I have always preferred it long. Not to mention that it does invite less comment. Misogynist jerks will feel an obligation to point out that a woman's hair is too short and masculine for their liking to any woman in public. They really will, at least here. It is a kind of tacit invitation, which I prefer not to extend.
Got a reel for cat's leash. Thank you Lucy, we'll try it out this afternoon, but I'm sure it will be very helpful.
Do you get to see the eclipse tomorrow? It should at least make the light very strange here, as the sun sets.
8 comments:
Oh good, funny, I couldn't find where I'd asked you that.
Your hair looks a really nice texture.
hi. it's me.
my grandfather used to say that if i didn't do something with my hair, i'd never catch a man.
*sigh*
but yes, people feel just find walkign up to you to tell you your hair is all wrong.
shave off the middle of one eyebrow. just a little.
that'll fix 'em.
Lucy,
Me neither, but it doesn't matter. Still an excellent idea. Yeah, I've never had any hair issues, aside from it being rather fine and flyaway.
flask,
D got to know me when I had the worst haircut of my life, from a Philippino army barber, with a line around the ears. Still likes me. But he does have strange tastes.
I got so many strange men on the street, in public places, approaching me to 'ask' me about my hair when I had it buzzed short. Sufficient analog to the eyebrow experiment, I think.
Prominent UK professor-blogger Mary Beard, who has gorgeous long nearly white hair, has been the victim of incomprehensible public insult about her appearance after recently presenting TV documentary: http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/04/meet-the-romans-aa-gill-and-lifes-little-ironies.html She's a very successful woman with many fans, but I don't suppose immune to hurt. Sick society, weird aesthetics. Good for everyone with the courage to be their own beautiful selves.
Jean,
Because of that publicity, we found her series and watched Meet the Romans. Still, it's amazing that the old attitudes are still so prevalent, like finding people who are convinced no woman can possibly know anything about engines.
eclipse 1am our time, so no... but anyway the sun never shines here any more...
PB,
It's near sunset here, so we're just barely in the zone. Still, the light should be interesting.
Eighteen months ago mine was short and 'neat' last night I noticed it's almost at my waist. I just watch with interest as it grows and grows, where will it end I wonder? :-) Loving the neat plait my daughter does for me!
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