Keywords
Hair, society
Document Type
Essay
Description
My wish for society is that someday we will collectively choose to elevate girls and women with bad hair to their rightful place at the top. There would be no more looking askance at thirteen-year-olds with asymmetrical pompadours. Instead, we might enroll them in a special leadership course with an emphasis on geopolitical issues. A woman with a bad haircut is a woman who is willing to take risks. She is independent, a little impulsive, and-in many cases-frugal. She is farsighted, prepared to live with her (or her stylist's) mistakes. She understands the impermanence of hair. It is almost certain that, on more than one occasion, she has looked in the mirror and shrugged, reassured by the knowledge that hair grows back. She bears with patience the arduous period that is the transition between a pixie cut and a well-groomed bob, and she has no qualms about repelling men who prefer longer hair.
Recommended Citation
Bennion, Cicily
(2018)
"Bad Hair,"
Inscape: Vol. 38:
No.
2, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol38/iss2/10