{"id":945,"date":"2008-06-23T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2008-06-23T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T00:36:03","slug":"long-beautiful-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/long-beautiful-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beautiful Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think one can underestimate the importance of hair. As I often say aloud while watching TV, “Hair is everything.” When accused of having an unhealthy preoccupation with hair, I’ve been able to fire off myths and folk tales and biblical stories to support my belief in the enduring significance of hair. Rapunzel, Samson, Medusa, Lady Godiva etc. Then there is the fundamentalist covering-up of hair, as in nuns, orthodox Jews, and Muslim women.<\/p>\n

Hair matters! Great hair can raise one’s attractiveness quotient just like bad hair can obliterate it. I once had a friend who insisted that I pose for a $15 video tape on sale at a mall, where different hairstyles were superimposed on my head. (Before we all went digital.) In 12 different styles and hair-colors, I am transformed into a secretary, headbanger, elderly lesbian, and so on.<\/p>\n

Today, I came across a story<\/a> about Liz Jones, a women who described her momentous haircut. Liz Jones is thrilled with her new look, while I find the old look a milion times better.<\/p>\n

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What do you think? Then there is the writer at Jezebel<\/a> who shows us her haircut a la Liz Jones.<\/p>\n

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The photo above is followed by a bunch of compliments, because no one had the heart (or nerve) to say, “Oh no, you cut off your beautiful hair!” In my opinion, this is another tragic haircut, turning a lovely vibrant looking woman into a shorn, innocuous Nobody.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite scientists, Steven Pinker<\/a>, is a member of The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists where you can admire<\/a> his hair and the hair of many colleagues.<\/p>\n

Finally, there is the poignant, beautiful and immortal line from Brian Wilson: “Where did your long hair go, where is the girl I used to know?” Caroline, No<\/a> is #211 on Rolling Stone’s list of the greatest songs of all time, but we all know that it’s really in the top ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"