I'm trying to imagine white or Asian women with 2mm of hair, around my age or older, conservatively dressed, perhaps with kids, and it doesn't feel like I'm reaching for the memory centres of my brain.

It's certainly a more common look with black women and has a longer cultural history. Though one of the older white women teachers at Matilda's school rocks a buzzcut.

We have Sparky and K and J at the beach. We are pleased.

for a white woman it would have all sorts of social signifiers that I think I get away without.

I think that's true. Very few of the white women I know in the hair fetish community feel like they can just shave or buzz their heads the way they prefer. Aside from family/social pressure against it, most think it's a look that would be deemed unacceptable and unprofessional at work.

Yeah, most white women/girls I know would simply balk at having hair that short. But I do see it more on older women now, or a slightly longer variation thereof.

This was said at work today: "Once we get the elephants on stage, we'll be focusing lights to them."

Without the lights, no one would notice the elephants.

I have a white friend who wore her hair about half an inch long for a few years in her late 30s. She's bi and worked in a college town where the social signifiers like super short hair weren't terribly important anyway. I thought she looked great! It really brought out her eyes and cheekbones. But apparently the upkeep got old (trimming it weekly) so she's growing her hair out now.

I agree, for white women anything shorter than a pixie cut feels "alternative" in some way (or possibly "cancer patient".)

I got a high-and-tight when I was at Fort Benning, but that was because there was only a barber on base who didn't know how to do a pixie cut. I'd never gotten the courage to buzz it, and I won't now, with my hair so thin.

Homeowners: as I'm searching through listings for apartments, I'm starting to get the idea that to get what I want, I'll need to actually get a house with a mortgage. There's a house that looks like that would be less than I'm paying now on rent, with more space (and if it's mine, I can do whatever I want, and have extra cash for higher heating bills and repairs).

But, that's scary!

That aside, I wouldn't be signing myself up for mysterious and unknown-to-me homeowner expenses --ooh, property tax, damn.

I had your haircut for a while in my twenties, ita. But I was very deliberately also aiming for androgyny.

So Emmett and I have to carry our old couch down three flights of stairs, and then the new couch back up those three flights of stairs.

What's the over/under on how many times we yell "Pivot! Piv-OTT!" at each other today?