The Scribbly One

I laughed reading this post and the resulting comments. Women have relationships with their hairdressers. We trade names of good hairdressers as seriously as corporate executives trade names of valuable contacts. We’ll go to the ends of the earth to locate a good hairdresser. And we would rather pay that much more for a good hairdresser instead of skimping and suffering an unsightly haircut. Sure, the hair will grow back, but meanwhile, we’d have to walk around looking like that. The mere thought of it is enough to strike terror in the heart of any woman.

Contrast all this with the men I know, who say, “It’s only hair!”

It’s only hair?! Word to the wise: Please don’t ever say that to a woman, unless you’re in the mood to commit suicide. To a woman hair is more than just hair; collectively, those thousands of fine strands represent beauty, femininity and sexiness. Yes, we have bought into the myths and perceptions perpetuated by the Big Bad Mass Media. But then, even a religious text like the Bible calls long hair a woman’s “glory”, so who are we to argue?