Pixie cuts are, IMHO, damned hot, but there’s a certain type of face that tend to go well with. I’ve never been much of a long-hair man myself–I tend to like it shorter, maybe just off the shoulder, like this length is probably my favorite. But, once again, it depends on the person. Some women look better (to me, of course) with longer hair, some shorter. It takes all kinds, and it seems odd to me that it’s inconceivable for a man to understand how other men find the short haircuts attractive.
They do suit a gamine, Mia Farrow-type fine-boned face structure, but then for me that’s just a great look. Mmm, Rosemary’s Baby era Mia Farrow.
I’m sorry, was I supposed to reply? Did this really merit two responses? I didn’t have an actual, intelligent point except that the photos of Angela Merkel you linked to didn’t look like a pixie cut to me. If that wasn’t the reason you posted your link, I’m not sure what your point was; the sentence I quoted seemed so obviously true as not to need comment.
I meant no disrespect toward Chancellor Merkel nor any criticism of her hairstyle.
I used to sport a Q-tip. Vogue wasn’t knocking down my door, but I actually liked my hair like that.
I’d love to have a real pixie cut. But my hair is too curly for the requisite bangs. So I just work with what I have.
What I don’t get is the hostility. There are a ton of guys jumping in with “Hey it’s just my opinion” when called, but why come off so inflammatory? Why is it such a huge crime for a woman not to look attractive? Why not just shrug and NOT say anything? Women who don’t care if how they look appeals to straight guys are clearly evoking real hostility among a lot of guys.
This last quote seems to say it all–equating women’s attractiveness with basic hygiene. A woman who otherwise look gorgeous (attractively styled hair, makeup, clothing) but who have chosen a hair style that some men don’t like are being equated with a man who only showers once a week? Really?
I am an un-American repressed homosexual, hurdy-durr.
My face is way too round to pull it off. Plus my Qtip was truly fuzzy all around- yours looks like it actually had style.
Your current cut is really beautiful and sophisticated.
Are you one of the guys who, as stated in the post, genuinely doesn’t get why a woman would ever choose a short hair cut? If not, you weren’t the audience for that screed.
Having had short hair most of my adult life (happens to be long now) I am plain out of patience for people who interpret my choice of hair cut as some kind of horrific tragedy. We get these threads pretty much like clockwork, and short-haired ladies get them in person from time to time. It’s tiresome, it’s offensive, and it’s dumb. The answer to “Why oh why would anyone ever commit that kind of atrocity” is pretty damn evident-- they prefer it.
But your long hair is a personal preference, right? It suits your face and hair type, right? It’s not because of an all-encompassing belief that all women look good with long hair and bad with short hair. That’s all I am saying.
Of course some guys just like the look of long hair and that’s all there is to it. Those guys don’t tend to start hyperbolic threads on message boards about how short-hair chicks ruin everything.
Perhaps it’s just the way your post came off, but it sounded like you were making sweeping statements about why one would choose long vs short hair.
I went from waist length hair to a pixie cut. Some people liked it, some people hated it, but no one ever called me “he”. Or maybe they did but I didn’t notice because I was preoccupied with my ruined career and dating life?
If they apply some sort of stiffening agent and comb it back and up, yeah, dyke.
Some come off looking like a the hair on teenage boy, but if you can’t tell a woman from a man, you are too far gone.
I wear a full beard and pony tail. When it was shorter, the pony tail was worn outside the shirt.
Exactly once was I referred to as “Ma’am” - that was a Home Dept idiot.
Here’s a hint: compare shoulder width to waist width. If the shoulders are much wider, that person is (was born) a male; equal or hips wider: is (was born) female. If too fat, ask for ID.
It’s not just men who do this either. Busybody women can be just as stupid.
I wear my hair pretty damn short. I know how short it is because I am my own barber and, oh yes, I have a MIRROR. And I’ve had short hair for almost 20 years. But on a regular basis I get asked–almost in an accusatory fashion–why I don’t let it grow out some. The implication being that I would look better with longer hair.
I actually have a perfectly good reason, beyond it simply being my aesthetic preference. I have trichotillomania. When my hair is long enough to curl, my hair-pulling impulse kicks in and I can’t stop it. I could take medication for the rest of my life and/or undergo (more) therapy, neither of which are guaranteed to work. Or I can keep it short, look well-groomed, and not be a nervous wreck. Sometimes a hairstyle isn’t a choice as much as it is a prescription.
I don’t tell people any of this when I get asked. I just say, “Because I like my hair this way.” But I think people need to know that this line of questioning isn’t just rude. It can be hurtful. Because sometimes I really would like to let my hair grow out, especially when I see someone with a cute style I’d like to emulate. But I can’t in good conscience do that to myself again.
Thanks for the compliment, Ivory.
You really walked that one back yet without any admission of error. Still work in DC, BTW?
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You argued that guys who, unlike me, invalidate a woman’s personal hair agency are in the thrall of a hair fetish: an objectification of the woman herself. I contend it’s just plain old fashioned narrow-mindedness. My proof: so where is all the hair-fucking? We’ve all read of it, and I’ve certainly explored the wilder shores of love in my youth, but I’ve never had it on the map. No woman I’ve known has recounted ever being requested to do it: wrap her hair around a guy’s dick and tug, or let her girlfriend cootchie-floss with a bank of it. I’m sure it’s out there somewhere, but it’s as big on the map of love as belly-button fucking.
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When the Pixar movie Brave came out, my daughter was commented at unrelentingly, because that was an accurate depiction of her hair. When she was little, having to brush it was almost as traumatic and tearful an experience as having a child with cystic fibrosis who’s chest a parent has to beat every morning so she can breathe. I begrudge no woman the choice to spare herself the smallest fraction of that.
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The men will agree that this is true about our sexuality: the natural smell coming off the top of a woman’s head is more arousing by orders of magnitude more than what’s sprouting out of the follicles. (On that same note, am I still a pig if, instead of their haircut choice, I bag on some women’s perfume choices? Many who, like Othello, “spritz not wisely but too well?”
To answer the question…
Yes, it looks good on me - my stylist seems to think so as well, but honestly THEY don’t get to pick any more than random guy does. I seem to have had a successful career. And my opposite sex husband begs me to cut it whenever I grow it out again. Didn’t have a shortage of dates while single either - though I did have a shortage of lesbians asking me out.
But the real reason - its easy to care for (other than needing more frequent cuts), dries fast, and flatters my face - highlighting my eyes which are my best feature and get lost under heavy hair. Its hard to have a bad hair day when its really short.
That might have been for a role. Like when Karen Gillan shaved off all of her gorgeous red hair. As it’s growing back in…pixie!
Back to the OP, is there something wrong with butch as a style? Or do you just not like it? 
I always thought Michelle Williams was incredibly bland, until she got her pixie. And Halle, although beautiful beyond measure, was just another Hollywood starlet trying to catch a break, until she got her pixie. Same went for the much more controversial Anne Hathaway. Pretty, but meh, until she got her pixie. Then she was all cheek bones and amazing eyes. All of these women wouldn’t have necessarily been all that and a bag of chips, in my opinion, until they nailed down that pixie. But, it’s not about me anyway, and I say this as someone who has worn a variation of that cut for almost 15 years. It’s easy to care for, it costs nothing to upkeep and, as an added bonus, my husband just happens to love short hair. So, I say win-win. It’s the long hair that needs to go. 
It’s not a ‘butch’ look-it’s a ‘pixie’ look. No dykiness involved.
I’ve barely posted the past few years, but am delurking to say 1. Good show on your initial comment to this thread 2. you are generally a high water mark for any thread you post to and 3. @$!# you are super attractive “even with” your dykey pixie cut.