Column: Back off my bitty bouffant, short hair is hot
22.05.12
The face I made after reading this comment was very "Rage Meme"
worthy, I assure you.
Reading something like this disturbs me on many levels. First of
all, it upsets me that just because a woman chooses to have short
hair, people believe it gives them the right to assume her sexual
orientation.
And what irks me more is that there seems to be a negative
connotation about women having short hair. Young or old, gay or
straight, the way a woman wears her hair should say no more about
her than the clothes on her back or the ink on her skin (see
previous column for my rant about women with tattoos).
I've had short hair for the majority of my adult life and I can
say that it's a wondrous way to live. I see women like Audrey
Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and, more recently, Michelle Williams and
Carey Mulligan, and I applaud them for having the cojones to wear
their short locks with pride and confidence.
After I saw Rooney Mara's tough partially shaved mane in David
Fincher's "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," it took everything in me
not to go pure "Edward Scissor Hands" on my own ‘do. However, I'm
glad I let a professional chop off my hair instead-it would have
ended up more Robert Smith than Carey Mulligan.
Source: Daily Eastern News