So why did they want to keep it? Inertia?

Given the state of the wardrobes of many people on the show? I'd say inertia probably plays a huge role. But mostly I think it's the cultural message that JZ is referring to.

Or maybe they just like having long hair. A lot of people actually do.

Given the state of the wardrobes of many people on the show? I'd say inertia probably plays a huge role. But mostly I think it's the cultural message that JZ is referring to.

I definitely remember thinking things like, "My hair looks better short, but I look more like a woman with it long," and "Even ugly long hair is better than pretty short hair." And it was really, really hard to get past that. Long hair turns you into a fairytale princess, and short hair is for dangerous people like Louise Brooks.

And then there's the subset of the above message, that some short hair is generally okay, but very short hair is only acceptable for women with impossibly delicate, beautiful features like Audrey Hepburn and Jean Seberg and Mia Farrow and, now, Natalie Portman. Very short hair is weirdly naked; there's nothing for anyone to see but your face. Frankly, I'm still terrified of the pixie cut. If I ever got one, everyone would see how horse-faced and old I really amthe Body Image Demons would take over.

Heh. I chose E--drink coffee and crop/upload pictures.

Here is my PCP's quilt, all finished! [link]

DH loves that I usually wear my hair long. A few years ago it was past my waist and I decided to cut about 12 inches off and donate it. My hair reached my shoulder blades after and was in a cute cut. DH HATED it.

Now it is near my waist, again. My stylist cuts some longish layers into it to help give it some shape, and because it's pretty thick and has natural body. (I do wish my hair was curlier or in ringlets.) I like being able to do my hair in various styles. I find I spend more time on it when it's short and then seem to be perpetually growing it out.

The school would frown on a teacher dying their hair an unusual color (they barely tolerate it in the students!); however, I did have deep red hi-lights a few years ago and no one said anything. The old art teacher would always dye a streak of her hair red, pink, blue, green or orange and the administration usually ignored it.

DH keeps mentioning me dying my hair black; however, my stylist keeps saying he things it would be too harsh. Instead we go as dark brown as possible (a shade or two darker than my natural) and sometimes add some red in for depth. The gray's seems to bother me more than anything. No one else seems to see them. DH has beautiful 'salt and pepper' hair...if I knew mine would look like that I'd welcome going gray!

It's weird, the number of men who think short hair on women is appalling. Not just not attractive on that particular woman, but philosophically inadvisable.

Yeah, was (am?) married to one of those. He HATED it when I got it cut short. Became one of thee zillion things we just didn't talk about.

I thought I liked my hair long until I chopped it. Now I love it short. I'm "growing it out" but not by much. I had it really short for a while and now I want a little bounce.

I am SO. DARNED. TIRED.

Or maybe they just like having long hair. A lot of people actually do.

Raises hand...I do!

I'm gonna re-lock this in a minute, but I had to share.

So, the I took the little girl I'm watching this week to the Museum of Science yesterday. She loved it THIS much!

Someone posited the theory that women with short hair were displaying "too much" independence by refusing to spend the extra time and energy that taking care of long hair requires (YTime/EnergyMV) and that it was a sign of pernicious feminism and assault against The Way Things Should Be(TM).

Hubby says deep down men want something to grab their woman by to drag them to the cave. I tell him he was raised by wolves and not fit for polite society. He smiles and says, "Of course I was, you met my mother."

My own hair stops looking healthy and happy just past my shoulders. If I grow it out to the bottom of my shoulderblades, it gets tatty. Down to mid-back, and the last 9 inches are a split-ended raggedy thinning mess.

JZ is me. I definitely felt the pressure to have long hair and desperately tried to achieve it many times, but it just doesn't suit me.