NY Times view on long hair

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL on rebellion. Nearly all the moms I know from our DCs’ independent school wear their hair long. If anything a pixie would be rebellion.

30 years ago I cut my hair into a pixie cut and got tons of d*ke comments. Men especially found it threatening for whatever reason. Never again.

I can’t imagine changing my appearance to please a bunch of misogynists.

Surely you can imagine changing your appearance to make your daily life more convenient though right?

Either way I agree that long hair is a rebellion. We all grew up watching our moms cut their hair short once they hit "a certain age" because you were "supposed to" and now we don't have to if we don't want to! I've had long hair most of my life and I'm certainly not going to cut it all off simply because I turned 40.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL on rebellion. Nearly all the moms I know from our DCs’ independent school wear their hair long. If anything a pixie would be rebellion.

30 years ago I cut my hair into a pixie cut and got tons of d*ke comments. Men especially found it threatening for whatever reason. Never again.

I can’t imagine changing my appearance to please a bunch of misogynists.

Surely you can imagine changing your appearance to make your daily life more convenient though right?

Either way I agree that long hair is a rebellion. We all grew up watching our moms cut their hair short once they hit "a certain age" because you were "supposed to" and now we don't have to if we don't want to! I've had long hair most of my life and I'm certainly not going to cut it all off simply because I turned 40.

Convenient to whom? So strangers don’t make comments? The thing I have received the most negative comments about in my life is my brown skin, so no, I cannot imagine changing it.

And who are you rebelling against exactly? Your mother? The 80s? And you’ve chosen a “rebellion” that makes you look like every other middle aged woman? lol. Ok. Sounds like high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My hair just doesn’t grow past bra-strap length anymore. It’s still thick but has become more curly with age and the length has stalled. I used to have hip-length hair at one point.

Mine doesn't stop growing but does become a frizzy mess as it gets longer.Then I get frustrated and chop it off again.

I have never had a hair style like Kristen Bell or Kate Middleton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL on rebellion. Nearly all the moms I know from our DCs’ independent school wear their hair long. If anything a pixie would be rebellion.

30 years ago I cut my hair into a pixie cut and got tons of d*ke comments. Men especially found it threatening for whatever reason. Never again.

I can’t imagine changing my appearance to please a bunch of misogynists.

Surely you can imagine changing your appearance to make your daily life more convenient though right?

Either way I agree that long hair is a rebellion. We all grew up watching our moms cut their hair short once they hit "a certain age" because you were "supposed to" and now we don't have to if we don't want to! I've had long hair most of my life and I'm certainly not going to cut it all off simply because I turned 40.

My mom got that Princess Di cut when she hit 35 and kept it ever since. When I was a kid she made us keep our hair in chin length bobs so she wouldn't have to style it.
Now at 40 I have mid back length hair that I quite like and it bothers my mom so much. She thinks my husband is "making" me keep it long but of course he has nothing to do with it.
I'm not pretty and never was but I have always had nice thick hair. I believe in playing up your good features.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL on rebellion. Nearly all the moms I know from our DCs’ independent school wear their hair long. If anything a pixie would be rebellion.

30 years ago I cut my hair into a pixie cut and got tons of d*ke comments. Men especially found it threatening for whatever reason. Never again.

This would just make me want to keep my pixie cut so that I could go around threatening men with my hair. What a cool trick, like a superpower.

DP. Hahaha, that’s exactly what I did. I’ve been wearing my hair short since 90s and let people make guesses and comment about my sexuality/gender. I like messing up with the others’ brains.

Is it just an American thing having long unstyled hair?

When I look back at my high school class photos at a girls' school, there are all sorts of styles and hair lengths. When I go back home, many older and younger women have shorter hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL on rebellion. Nearly all the moms I know from our DCs’ independent school wear their hair long. If anything a pixie would be rebellion.

30 years ago I cut my hair into a pixie cut and got tons of d*ke comments. Men especially found it threatening for whatever reason. Never again.

This would just make me want to keep my pixie cut so that I could go around threatening men with my hair. What a cool trick, like a superpower.

DP. Hahaha, that’s exactly what I did. I’ve been wearing my hair short since 90s and let people make guesses and comment about my sexuality/gender. I like messing up with the others’ brains.

Is it just an American thing having long unstyled hair?

When I look back at my high school class photos at a girls' school, there are all sorts of styles and hair lengths. When I go back home, many older and younger women have shorter hair.

Not sure how old you are, but there was a time in the U.S. where we had styled hair. People like to pretend it was all Golden Girls or MAGA hair, but there was a middle ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL on rebellion. Nearly all the moms I know from our DCs’ independent school wear their hair long. If anything a pixie would be rebellion.

30 years ago I cut my hair into a pixie cut and got tons of d*ke comments. Men especially found it threatening for whatever reason. Never again.

This would just make me want to keep my pixie cut so that I could go around threatening men with my hair. What a cool trick, like a superpower.

DP. Hahaha, that’s exactly what I did. I’ve been wearing my hair short since 90s and let people make guesses and comment about my sexuality/gender. I like messing up with the others’ brains.

Is it just an American thing having long unstyled hair?

When I look back at my high school class photos at a girls' school, there are all sorts of styles and hair lengths. When I go back home, many older and younger women have shorter hair.

Not sure how old you are, but there was a time in the U.S. where we had styled hair. People like to pretend it was all Golden Girls or MAGA hair, but there was a middle ground.

So how did it get to the point that every girl I see coming out of a nearby highschool has the same unstyled long hair? I imagine them chanting "we're all individuals" while looking exactly the same.

I did grow up during the punk era so there were some very interesting looks. I had a short haircut that was shaved to nearly nothing at the back, and people just wanted to touch it all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think for middle aged moms, the real rebellion is to wear a bob/lob haircut, but really own it and not let it dictate that you be frumpy or asexual.

I also think shorter hair demands that it be well kept -- regular trims, worn down daily. So many women with long hair just wear it in a pony tail or bun many days, and it often looks frizzy and unkempt. Even when it's worn down and styled, you can often see the split ends and broken hair shafts. It absolutely feels like giving in to a trend even though it doesn't suit you at all.

My long hair is much easier to manage. It also looks nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL on rebellion. Nearly all the moms I know from our DCs’ independent school wear their hair long. If anything a pixie would be rebellion.

30 years ago I cut my hair into a pixie cut and got tons of d*ke comments. Men especially found it threatening for whatever reason. Never again.

I can’t imagine changing my appearance to please a bunch of misogynists.

Surely you can imagine changing your appearance to make your daily life more convenient though right?

Either way I agree that long hair is a rebellion. We all grew up watching our moms cut their hair short once they hit "a certain age" because you were "supposed to" and now we don't have to if we don't want to! I've had long hair most of my life and I'm certainly not going to cut it all off simply because I turned 40.

Convenient to whom? So strangers don’t make comments?

The thing I have received the most negative comments about in my life is my brown skin, so no, I cannot imagine changing it.

And who are you rebelling against exactly? Your mother? The 80s? And you’ve
chosen a “rebellion” that makes you look like every other middle aged woman? lol. Ok. Sounds like high school.

I mean, yes? If I were wearing a style that I wasn't ideologically attached to for some reason, and it was causing constant negative attention, I would probably change it to make my life easier.

[Anonymous]

Long hair can be just as unattractive on older women as short hair. Stringy/dry/frizzy/ is not good.

[Anonymous]

That was a really silly article for the NYT. It said . . nothing. Just a bunch of googled clips on the subject patched together.

[Anonymous]

This piece was bizarre. I could see this piece MAYBE being relevant in 2006 when Real Housewives debuted and the cast were all sporting long layered cuts and highlights. Here we are almost 20 years later and this is nothing new.

And you can’t discuss this topic without understanding how prevalent hair extensions are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was a really silly article for the NYT. It said . . nothing. Just a bunch of googled clips on the subject patched together.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NY times wants you barefoot and pregant
I would not take any advice from them.

I’m wondering how far left you’d have to be to make a statement like that.

[Anonymous]

I like longer hair but I can't stand all the super long extensions. They're so fake looking. The hair is too thick and too long. It's an exception to have Amal Clooney thick long hair. I have fine straight blonde hair. Blonde extensions will have thicker ends with tons of body. It looks like doll hair attached below boob area. Most people's hair won't even grow that long especially straight blonde, strawberry and light brown hair.