Street Cred!
2009 June 1
I cut my hair.
Now I look like a lesbian (again). More or less. Whatever that means, you know?*
Anyways, to everyone who followed my In Defense of Femininity, I announce:
Newly minted STREET CRED!!
But I still practice (and defend) aesthetic femininity.
*I also sport an age-defying abundance of gray hair, of which I’m very proud. For no rational reason. Except that I think it looks cool and you can’t buy it.
That’s 3 posts today. A record, I think.
Just keeping things moving, you know.
Shiny! I’m jealous. I’m googling short haircuts right now so I can get myself a nice lesbian cut.
That’s funny b/c I’ve had straight hair most always. I remember back when the style was to have your hair clippered short in the back and sides and longer on top so that it made a ledge. When I got that haircut, my mom freaked out. She said people might think I was a lesbian. I said, “I don’t care. It’s in style, and it looks cute.” The most mind-blowing part of that was that my mother had hair that was actually shorter than mine (if you took the longer top part into consideration). I said, “Aren’t you afraid that people will think *you’re* a lesbian?” Her response? “I’m a married woman.”
Anyway, I’m in the process of growing it long now b/c I’ve never really had long hair since I was a small kid. I’d love to be able to braid it or put it in a bun.
LOL! It took me HOURS to interpret “straight” hair as meaning heteronormative hair!! I have straight hair too.
Hahaha! Long hair is wonderful because you can pull it back for ease of use and you hardly EVER have to get it cut. I have now doomed myself to at least bi-monthly haircuts. But, hey, I’ve got lesbian STREET CRED!!
Joceclaire, I advise having a HOMOSEXUAL cut your hair. The straight people don’t know how to do short hair properly. I know, it’s prejudicial against the hets and all that, but I sincerely think it’s good practice to steer clear of them. On Thursday I had a straight woman cut off most of the hair, which resulted in egg-headed puffiness. On Friday a hipster gay man fixed it and now it’s CUTE. Go GAY, Sister!! And good luck!
I once got a haircut by a straight man, and it was the worst haircut of my life! He didn’t understand the concept of layers … I walked out of the salon in tears.
I think I’ll go to this salon called Jagged Edge that specializes in slightly punk type haircuts. I don’t know if the stylists there are lesbians, but they’re all women, and I’ve had a good experience there in the past.
Actually I already hacked off most of it myself, but I need it fixed up because it just looks like a cute, straight haircut now. Needs to be thinned out or something so it will be less poufy …
And yes, the tradeoff with short hair as far as maintenance. Long hair takes forever to dry but never needs to be cut, whereas short hair dries so quickly but needs trims all the time. I’ll probably just trim it myself until it gets really stupid looking, and have my mom help me trim/shave the back.
Personally, I have long hair (and I’m not interested in cutting it). To me, long hair was not originally meant to symbolize femininity, it’s just the patriarchs that made it look that way, another social construct of gender norms. Plus, I cannot be bothered about cutting it (I only have a haircut of 2-3 inch length once a year). I don’t believe having long hair makes me look less of a lesbian feminist: I reject all the other feminine norms…
That said, it’s entirely up to anyone however they want to wear their hair. If you, personally, feel more confortable with a short haircut, then so be it.
Oops, I meant “short hair.” Hmm, maybe that was a freudian slip.
OMG, even *funnier*!! Hahahahaha!
Cutting my hair really short was a great way of overcoming some of my internalized lesbophobia. I don’t think that women should be under pressure to relinquish their heteronormative haircuts but I’d certainly recommend it.
Redmegaera, your reference to “lesbophobia” has me thinking about the unconscious fears I had when I showed up in Northampton, MA in 1996… I wanna post about it one of these days.
And UPDATE:
My (pseudo) mother-in-law hates my short hair. That’s how I KNOW I look like a lesbian. Bwahahahahaha! She says, please tell me you’re going to let it grow out? I say, no, I think I might go shorter. And my partner says, I LOVE IT! No, I LOVE IT!! YAY!!