I hate to reply to myself, but I'm reading the comments on the article at NY Times, and it's the same thing that always kept me trying and failing to grow my hair -- the idea that only long hair is sexually attractive on a woman and that short hair is necessarily 'mannish', which is a different kind of pressure than the age one, but just as insidious. The two kinds of pressure are probably actually related.
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Date: 2010-10-22 03:42 pm (UTC)