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From: budd@arizona.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: survey: marriage and hair
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Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 11:01:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 12 11:01:19 1983
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        This was inspired by a message from Dave Mason on hairstyles
in net.women.only, but it didn't seem to belong there, so i will put it
here.

        I read an interesting statistic once, which a small amount of
personal observation seems to have borne out.  It seems that an
extremely large percentage of women who have long hair at the time of
their marriage get their hair cut short within a very small period of time,
say within a year.  I have heard various sexist arguments as to why this
might be so (a subconcious attempt to be less attractive, since they have
already attracted a mate - note I'm only repeating here, not suggesting
I believe this explaination), but I have never heard a good rational
explaination.

        Has anybody else observed this?  Can anybody guess why this might
be so?