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Subject: Hair: long, short, and no... - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Oct  2 12:12:00 1983

	Why do so many men see shorter hair as being necessarily less
attractive?  I admit, long hair can be a pleasing spectacle, but the
amount of maintenance it seems to require makes me wonder if this isn't
just another example of a standard of beauty that derives from hobbling
women.  (High heels are not the most extreme example; the Chinese
practiced foot-binding--their idea of "dainty" went to an immoral extreme.)

	"Helpless is Beautiful" is, I hope, on its way out.  Living in
one of the punk meccas of the world, I've had the odd experience of
feeling attracted to women with intense, sultry eyes, long legs, and--
1/4-inch hair!  Now that's a little short for me, but you see my point:
get past your cultural programming, and there's *still* something there
that you can't pin down.

    Somewhere in the Eye of the Great Beholder,
	Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)