ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT.
A handful of people have voiced to me (to my face) their displeasure with my choice to cut my hair. While I appreciate your opinion and the fact that you care, I reserve the right to also voice my displeasure with your narrow view of “beauty”. Cutting off my hair was not a ploy for attention. It was not an attempt to be more attractive. It was not for any such shallow reason. I hear so many girls say “omg I’d rather like cut off my arm than like cut off my hair”. So I cut off my hair to prove to myself that I am not attached to my hair of all the possible reasons. I’m trying to not be attached to material things.
Honestly, I was empowering myself as a woman. I’m 20 years old. No, I don’t have as much experience in the world as you do, but I know there is so much left to explore and so much more to life. And I don’t think it is the number one priority of women to be beautiful. It’s never been for men so why should it be for me too? Appearance and having everyone like me is not the number one priority of my life (Hello College Education).
I should also add that just because I have short hair does not mean I have to dress “more girly” or else people will think I’m a lesbian. Not to mention it is wrong to judge someone based on what they look like. You cannot tell anything about a person by how he or she looks whether it’s their style choices or the color of his or her skin.
So, if you think because I don’t have long locks that makes me less desirable and less of a woman I would love for you to expand your view of the world. Maybe it’s the generation gap talking, but still no excuse to be so rude. I was raised to view all people as equals. I try very hard to accept people as they are and most importantly respect their decisions. I’m just having fun before I have to get a real job and be a part of the "real world". Not to mention the fact that I like it.
I've since cut it shorter myself (which also seems to be an insane thing to do for some reason), but you get the idea.