What are you going on about? My daughter has the most gorgeous pixie cut and gets compliments everywhere she goes. Straight or gay is irrelevant- she looks gorgeous.
Are you always this judgmental?
Helpful to their careers? Why- would you dismiss a woman’s accomplishments if she had a pixie cut? How about your future students? They get a C if they have one?
To be fair, his contempt for lesbians does allow room for some women to ignore his personal preferences in women’s hairstyles. Just as long as the butchies don’t expect to have careers or anything!
In my experience, women who are more androgynous tend to be taken more seriously in the workplace than hyper-feminine women. At least in science/tech fields.
I don’t think a pixie cut alone is feminine, androgynous, or masculine, though. There are women who look quite masculine while having long hair, and women who look quite feminine with short hair. I know that for myself, I embraced more feminine attributes after I went to a buzz cut because I was tired of getting mistaken for a dude. I never wore earrings when I had long hair. Now I can’t step out of the house without something dangling on my ears.
Regardless, I know my short hair accentuates my androgyny, but that’s fine. I’m an androgynous type of person. If I ever get struck by the desire to attract someone, I’d like to think that I’d attract a person who’d dig this aspect of me, not someone who would have a problem with it. Because that person wouldn’t be a good fit.
Every woman I know with short hair has a SO, so obviously having short hair isn’t a serious handicap on the dating scene.
Well, to each their own, but I never saw what the big deal with Halle Berry was until I saw her with long hair, and then I thought, “Wow, yes, she is quite attractive.”
I’m not a fan of the pixie cut, but ( ::checks forum:: ) that’s just my humble opinion.
In my experience of 35 years as a software engineer, the women who are taken seriously are the ones who are good at what they do. I’ve known some absolutely gorgeous software engineers who were highly respected, as well as some very ordinary-looking ones who were. Also, both types who were barely competent, and everywhere in between.
Looks definitely affect first impressions more than they should; they help for engineering sales calls and public presentations, etc. But in the trenches, we know who gets stuff done versus who causes problems we have to fix later, and frankly that’s what we really care about.
Pixie cuts? Hell yeah. Along with all the other options. I don’t think the OP has a point. I hate to use the phrase “ugly women”, but even “ugly women” can look fine in pixie cuts. They don’t look butch to me, but if a woman wants to look butch, that’s fine too. Unless I consider dating them (which I won’t since I’m married) it doesn’t matter a bit to me.
I’ve heard people say this before but don’t get how it works. It’s like saying someone looks better in a ski mask. A pixie cut lets someone’s features stand on their own. Berry’s showed her symmetry, proportion, and graceful lines. More hair obscures the elements that make her beautiful.
You actually expressed shock and something like disgust that a straight woman would want this haircut.
Nobody’s bitching.
If that’s your attitude, hygiene is not your biggest problem.
I wish I could believe this, but I don’t. I’ve seen way too many women put down for being “girly girl”, despite their qualifications and abilities, because people assume that someone who has nice nails and stylish hair can’t possibly know anything else.
Women can be just as guilty of bashing the girly-girls as anyone else.
Its a world full of different tastes & styles; people wear what works for them and date what works for them too.
That said, imagine that romantic moment:
The night was perfect, you’ve managed to be together and sleep together the whole night through. The sun is slowly rising, birds are singing, and you want the night to continue into the next day.
You have slowly awakened the love of your life to a back rub and are well on your way towards thinking today is really going to REALLY start out right. She’s half awake , but more than half interested and looking for more.
You roll a little bit more towards her to get closer only to hear that most romantic of phases:
Double spoiler’d, for both your pleasure AND hers…
**"OOOOWWWWWWW!!!
"OWW! OWW! OWW!
GET THE FUCK OFF MY HAIR!!!
YOU’RE PULLING MY HAIR!!! FUCK…! FUCK…! FUCK…!
Get the FUCK AWAY from me!!! OWW THAT HURT…!"**
#InPraiseOfShortHair
Completely matches my experience in grad school in a research lab. Overly made up (but perfectly acceptable otherwise) women were not considered as serious but the women and men alike.
Sharing your opinion with a side of judgment.
I don’t know how it works; I only know that, for me, it does. If you try to use logic on it, by your logic a bald woman should be more beautiful than one with any hair.
Oh good, it’s this thread again.
I would just like to say that everyone in this thread is totally wrong except me. I know what’s best, so let me tell you. Pixie cuts are amazing because they add youth with a touch of character edginess. It takes 5-10 years off her face, but lets you know she…uh, “knows what to do.” It’s not the only hot hairstyle, but it’s up there.
So there.
Bullpoop. There are exactly 0 hot men with long hair, especially “girly” hair. It’s hideous in all cases.
I wanna actually here how that went down. How does someone “get mad” about it? Did they think they owned her head?
He didn’t say that last part. He just told you his preferences. He’s not sitting outside salons with hair strands and glue.
I see a bunch of women who look pretty still despite a stupid haircut.
I assume it went down like “why did you change your hair? that sucks, it looked better before. You shouldn’t have done that because now it’s worse…” and so on.
That’s not really surprising. I’ve seen the same from women when a man changes his hair, shaves off a beard or otherwise makes a major change to his appearance.
As for pixie cuts, I think they – perhaps unsurprisingly – look best on women with more delicate or sharper “elfin” features and complement those well. I’m not as enamored of them on rounder features (though rounder features can be lovely on their own just the same) but however you wanna cut your hair, have at it.
I’m still trying to puzzle out why these problems are only for straight women with those cuts. Apparently lesbians with pixie cuts have fine careers.
Well, the OP specified looking “butch” so obviously those women all have jobs as welders or alligator ranchers or high school shop teachers where looking “butch” is an asset.
Personal opinions vary, but I think they’d both look better with a wig. Well, two wigs. I don’t expect them to share.
