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WCDT strips 3841-3845 (1-5 October 2018)

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sitnspin:

--- Quote from: Case on 06 Oct 2018, 07:48 ---Why would you like the female characters to explain their choice of hairstyle, Ben?

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This. Seriously, women change our hair. We don't have to have a reason to do it, let alone explain it to anyone. i am perplexed at the amount of emotional energy men here are expending in response to women's hair styles. Some of seem to be acting like women not having long hair is some sort of affront to you.

Is it cold in here?:
When beauty goes out of the world without the consent of those who carried it, I may be sad out loud.

Emily was drunk, Hannelore was in a panic attack about lice, Momo lost hers in an accident. I feel differently about conscious free choices like Bubbles made.

Morituri:
I'm a guy, and I change my hair relatively frequently.  I've done the buzzcut, I've done the part and the bangs and I've been clean-shaven, had muttonchop sideburns, had a mustache, etc...  These days I'm wearing a goatee (well, maybe the beard's a little too long now to be called that anymore) and a ponytail, which, sadly, are increasingly gray.

And people always ask me why. 

I don't get any reason why *not*.  Sometimes it's summer and it's hot and I want to cut my hair short.  Sometimes the changes are traditional observations or psychological reactions, like the "grief" haircut that still seems to be part of my mourning process after people important to me pass.  Sometimes I grow my hair long because people who I am very glad to have in my life like it that way.  And sometimes it's just a whim.  A million reasons, none of which are relevant to the questioner.

But, the reasons really don't matter, except to me.  People don't understand how I can let my appearance change, and as long as it doesn't impair anything, I don't understand why they care.

People can't be prevented from demanding explanations for changes, I suppose.  But it's just silly.  And possibly even rude, depending on whether it's someone who's sensitive to a possible expression of disapproval.  I could generally care less about whether someone disapproves of my hairstyle, but I'm a guy.  Part of my male privilege is that I'm allowed to not care. 

Women generally don't feel that they have that privilege.  So just shut up about it, because that triples the risk of being just plain rude whether you intend to be disapproving or not.

BenRG:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 06 Oct 2018, 09:36 ---When beauty goes out of the world without the consent of those who carried it, I may be sad out loud.
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Yeah, that's basically how I feel: Beauty being taken out of the world for no good reason.

Stoutfellow:
If you're talking about blowing up millennia-old statues or shredding a painting, I have no quarrel. But when the beauty in question is an attribute of a person, asking for a reason seems a bit problematic to me.

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