Per this article’s take on the whole Carly Fiorina comment flap is Senator’s Boxer’s hair not appropriate to her status?
Why should anyone care?
I recently went to her wikipedia and noticed her hair. I thought it was dark brown, when did this change? I don’t think Fiorina looks butch, either.
We shouldn’t care, but people do just like their care about how Obama looks in a swimsuit. I have serious doubts about either Senatorial candidate’s critical thinking skills, so although I don’t care about hair, that’s what they’ve offered thus far.
Photos of the two:
Of the two, I’d say that Miss Fiorina’s hair looks far more tended to, stylish, and effeminate.
I know a lot of people who were at HP when Fiorina was there, (now mostly spun off) and at the time they complained that while she was laying off people she was spending tons of HP money on hair stylists and corporate jets. This was before the cancer. They all pretty much universally hated her guts. They contrasted her to the CEO of the Agilent spinoff, who flew commercially and rented cars when visiting plants.
It’s kind of amazing to me the way Fiorina keeps failing upwards. If she loses the California race will she end up nominated for President next?
Higher. Twitter.
Looking at both image pages, it looks like they have the same exact hairstyle. But what do I know, I’m a man.
I’m a woman and had the same impression. Both have bland, blondish, unoffensive, shortish hair. What could there possibly be to hate? How strange.
The article states that Carly Fiorino recently changed her hairstyle because of chemotherapy. The hairstyles in the google image search isn’t what she has now.
Uh, are we noticing the hairdo on the chick who wrote the article??
Nuff said.
I noticed she changed the spelling of Carly Fiorina’s name to Fiorino. An unconscious de-feminizing?
I cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, call Barbara Boxer’s hair “feminized- not the practical hairdo of the hardworking, but the sort of hair that gets in the way, has to be tied back, slows one down.” It’s your basic business-woman cut and far more ‘practical’ than, say, Sarah Palin’s. Now personally I can’t stand Barbara Boxer, but I cannot find anything to object to in her hair.
I do like the bald/shaved look in women, though, and I think it looks very feminine too. If only I had the right-shaped skull I would so do it.
This paragraph really bugs me:
Yeah, whatever, that is so pretentious I can’t even stand it. Is the fact that I don’t dye my hair at all some sort of radical political act? I just like my hair the color it is and have never wanted to dye it in case it doesn’t come back. I hope it makes me better than her. Heh.
I wouldn’t hit either one of them, if that’s what you’re asking.
Huh. Sen. Boxer’s hair used to be dark brown. I wasn’t aware she’d changed it.
What really concerns me is the author’s statement that “A dark blond or light brown make me nearly invisible- neither sexy nor smart- just a blank slate which I must fill out with sartorial signifiers and actions.”
I have dark blond/light brown hair. Am I unintentionally giving off “boring person” vibes? I’ve been thinking of dying my hair a dark brown for a long time, but I’m concerned that I’m too lazy to maintain it. Now I really want to try it. I’m curious to see if there’s actually a noticeable difference in people’s behavior toward people with different colored hair.
People who have dyed their hair a lot, what do you think?
Man, that’s ridiculous. What’s wrong with either of their hairstyles?
Fiorina caught a news cycle by her catty comments, but I think it’s an absolute non-issue. If anything, it seems that Fiorina might get a little bit of blowback for being so petty.
As for the columnist: slow news day, I suppose.
Yup. this article from NPR just popped up on my Facebook feed.
Imagine if a Senator made a catty remark about Sarah Palin’s hair. Fox News would be sobbing with hysterical outrage.
I would say the quoted article is a veritable rat’s nest of overstated tripe and awkwardly forced imputations of significance. It strikes me as a sound example of writing something – anything – for the purpose of getting enough words down to get a paycheck, as opposed to writing something that makes sense, matters, or means something.
As for the columnist: she should talk! Her style doesn’t say “let’s get down to business” or “I’m feminine.” It just says “blah.” Even so, that doesn’t make it inappropriate for her profession. What a tool.
My brother’s long term GF, the not my sister in law, has worked at HP for years. Carly is universally hated by all who have had the hell of working for her.
Carly (don’t wanna risk misspelling her last name) must have paid for this piece to get people talking about both candidate’s hair so that Carly’s inappropriate open mic catty remarks will fade into the background of an astroturfed “genuine” debate about their hair.