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What steering committee said that guys should have short hair and girls should have long hair and where in the past did it become acceptable for girls to have short more masculine styles but guys can't have longer styles? Girls have free access to every hair length and style and nobody says anything. Some might say that it is the IN thing for girls now but they are never ridiculed or talked about for haveing crew cuts or short cuts. Guys are still expected in most of society to have short hair. Also, women get to choose a hairstyle/length based on what fits their face and features but stylists look crosseyed at guys who ask for something like this. Well, I dare to be different. I asked my stylist "I want to know what style would best fit my face and features no matter how long or if the style is a girls style or not." Well she looked me over and recommended a bob below the ears with bangs. I had her cut it that way and I absolutely love my hair now. I look like a dork with short hair. Anyway, I get weird looks a lot of the time and can hear people giggle when they walk past me. It doesn't bother me but I just don't understand the big deal or the double standard.
Bobbedguy, I want to say that your statement that "girls have free access to every hair length"... "and nobody says anything" is not true in general. I remember that girls were also under hair cut pressure. Sometimes it were religious reasons, "long hair looks too sexy", or it was not formal enough.
A female cousine of me with hair between midback and waistlength had serious problems with her co workers, she will look like a prostitute. A former girl friend of me told me that her boss reclaimed her long hair. In a so called women friendly TV a woman with butt length hair was pressured to cut it off (by her boss), why it doesn't matched his picture from his employees. From the Canadian airline I know that stewardesses are forced to wear a certain (medium) short hair style.
A co worker told me that his wife was told every day how beautiful she will look with a short style (from all this short haired woman around) and she had really beautiful long hair, finally she gave in, women can be very strange if they are jealous. I don't think that long haired woman have no problems to save their hair through social pressure and formal ideas. I think sometimes it is easier for a guy with long hair to be accepted as for a woman. In the software development environment I am working sometimes engineers with ponytail appear, but almost all female engineers I saw had short or very short hair.
wolfgang
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wolfgang
That's okay. I liked your letter.
Paula
Bobbedguy, I want to say that your statement that "girls have free access to every hair length"... "and nobody says anything" is not true in general. I remember that girls were also under hair cut pressure. Sometimes it were religious reasons, "long hair looks too sexy", or it was not formal enough.
A female cousine of me with hair between midback and waistlength had serious problems with her co workers, she will look like a prostitute. A former girl friend of me told me that her boss reclaimed her long hair. In a so called women friendly TV a woman with butt length hair was pressured to cut it off (by her boss), why it doesn't matched his picture from his employees. From the Canadian airline I know that stewardesses are forced to wear a certain (medium) short hair style.
A co worker told me that his wife was told every day how beautiful she will look with a short style (from all this short haired woman around) and she had really beautiful long hair, finally she gave in, women can be very strange if they are jealous. I don't think that long haired woman have no problems to save their hair through social pressure and formal ideas. I think sometimes it is easier for a guy with long hair to be accepted as for a woman. In the software development environment I am working sometimes engineers with ponytail appear, but almost all female engineers I saw had short or very short hair.
wolfgang
I dont know where you live, man, but girls ARE ridiculed for having crew cuts or very short hair or spikey hair in the United States. They are often labeled homosexual by most people, and a lot of the time they are, but OF COURSE, not always, so I don't wanna hear any stupid replies. I have nothing against lesbians but its common style for American lesbians, I'm just giving information here. They got a "dyke" cut to signal that they are lesbians, just like men getting their right ear pierced, in the USA, signals homosexuality.
Maybe I did not make myself clear. Look around you at the girls. How many have long hair past the shoulders? How many have shorter cropped hair? How many have hair between shoulder and ear lobe length? The point I am getting at is that hairstyles on women are getting shorter and shorter for the most part but women have the option to have any length or style of hair that they want in general while guys are still expected to have short hair. If a girl with a real short cropped style is acceptable then why is it not acceptable for a guy to have a bob with bangs or a longer style. Who do you think would turn more heads, the short cropped girl or the guys with a bob and bangs?
What planet are you from? Hair styles in no way or form give any hint of sexual preference just as a man wearing an earing in his right ear does not begin to hint of his sexual preference.
Hair styles change every so often on women....these are called "fads".
They've been happening for hair, shoes, clothes, make-up, etc. for years for women and some like the new look where others might have another opinion. This is why you don't see every woman looking the same.