Long hair represents femininity and vulnerability and sex. It’s princesses and mermaids and porn stars. Short hair, on the other hand, says, “If you think I’m gorgeous, great, but this isn’t about you, pal.” Whoooo, scary! In an ABC interview when she was 15, Miley Cyrus showed off a photo of iconic British model Twiggy, all big eyes and choppy blond hair, and said, “One day I’m going to cut my hair like that. I know I am. I will.” So she did. But in a culture where a female doing something just for herself – not her fiancé, not her family, not her fans – is seen as transgressive, that’s enough to call her masculine and shocking and unstable. And that’s not just sad, that’s totally crazy.
-Mary Elizabeth Williams from this article about the recent "scandal" (and I use that term loosely) over Miley Cyrus cutting off most of her hair.
Look, I don't have any particular feelings (positive, negative, or otherwise) about Miley Cyrus but this article and especially the quote above from said article expresses exactly how I felt (except the bit about long hair, I don't really agree with that) when learning of the stupidity of the "debacle" over this girl cutting her hair. I've been known to change my hair VERY often, out of sheer boredom and not because I was suffering from some 16th century-esque "womanly hysteria". Every time I have ever cut my hair "super-short", it was always on a whim and always a totally liberating experience. Now I understand how silly that probably sounds because it's just a fucking haircut right? But, if you think about it, this simple "haircut" is usually one of the rare occasions where what you're doing, you're doing only for yourself. So I guess what I am trying to say here is that the girl just wanted a damn haircut and in the words of The Dalai Lama I think it was, "Calm yo tits, Hollywood..."
P.S. I think her haircut is cute as shit.
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