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JerkoftheMonth is changing her name!
12/04/08

In reply to Does Cutting Your Hair Mean You Don't Want Sex?
Firstly, Natalie Portman was the most beautiful woman on the planet with her short hair. I think she probably got lots of sexy times.

I think it's fair to say that this whole short-hair-equals-low-libido-or-latent-lesbianism thing is bollocks. For one, why is the guy making her hair cut about him? It's not about you, a-hole, it's about her!

Also, I took the chop a few years ago and got a super-short pixie, which I loved and got loads of compliments about, but was still sometimes concerned that people assumed I was Lezebel. I didn't get any sexy times, but that's because where I live is full of sexually oppressed mama's boys. It shall remain unnamed. My hair is a bit longer how but only because short hair is really more work that you might think.
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Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!)
12/04/08

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I cut my hair off not long after I got married to donate it to Locks of Love (a friend and I grew it out together and then donated). RANDOM ACQUAINTANCES were warning my husband that when a woman cuts her hair short, it's because she either doesn't want sex or she's looking for a divorce!!!!!!

Not because, like, bald kids might need wigs or anything like that.

(My husband, luckily, understood these people were idiots. And thought the sex was kinda funner for a while, since my hair was so different suddenly. But we both like it better longer.)
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lalaland13
12/04/08

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So, following this logic, the longer my hair gets, the more I want sex? So if you see a girl with split ends like me, bang her right away before she can make it to the salon?

Well, you have a week till I get paid. So have at it, boys.
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rollergirl76
12/04/08

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Every guy I've ever dated has loved long hair. However, I like to switch it up now and again because that's how I roll. Either deal with it or see ya! Also, I look cute in short hair. I did a Posh bob last summer, and it was really adorable.
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rollergirl76
12/04/08

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Why would you marry somebody if you had a bad sex life with them? It's only going to get worse, right.
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PoisonPixie
12/04/08

@rollergirl76: I wouldn't marry someone unless they were good in bed...but I've heard that married couples hit a groove after years together, and it can be a very good thing...but I imagine it could go the other way, too.
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rollergirl76
12/04/08

@PoisonPixie: Sexual compatibility is huge to me, as well. I don't understand the people who date somebody who isn't into having a normal sex life and then marry them and wonder why their sex life is so bad. Why do that to yourself?
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morninggloria
12/04/08

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Whenever I cut my hair short, it is always preceded by an energetic makeover montage set to a club remix of "I'm Every Woman" and images of the process of the haircut are interspliced with images of me emerging from boutiques with bouquets of shopping bags, wearing fancy hats. Also images of me taking either kickboxing or dance classes and repainting my house. The end of the montage is punctuated by the stylist (a very supportive, flamboyant, sassy gay man who is usually Latin) spinning me around in the chair and me looking at my new, hot, totally independent self in the mirror. The stylist claps and jumps up and down with glee; he can't believe how excited he is. We hug, and I leave the salon.
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rollergirl76
12/04/08

@morninggloria: My montage is set to the club remix of "I'm Coming Out". There are a lot of scenes of me trying on different clothes and laughing on my cell phone as I walk down the city street.
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morninggloria
12/04/08

@rollergirl76: Sometimes I trade in my minivan for a convertible and drive by the ocean with the top down.
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PoisonPixie
12/04/08

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I gotta say, while it may not mean NO SEX, cutting hair CAN BE an outward show of some emotional damage. Exhibit A: My friend in college was broken up with, cut her hair off down to the uneven-nub (not at a salon, but whacked off in her room) and then taped it in a ziplock bag to her former boyfriend's dorm door. Exhibit B: Britney
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rollergirl76
12/04/08

@PoisonPixie: Whoa. My ex-boyfriend from college shaved his head after I broke up with him. He looked like scary. He was def unraveling at the seams.
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rollergirl76
12/04/08

@rollergirl76: you know what i mean. my brain is not working today.
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PoisonPixie
12/04/08

@rollergirl76: We should hook these two up, no?
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rollergirl76
12/04/08

@PoisonPixie: Ha, I wouldn't hook him up with my worst enemy. He was a narcissistic, self-pitying bastard.
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Flackette Goes Retro
12/04/08

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My hair is roughly shoulder length, and whenever I say I'm going to get a haircut, men (boyfriend, guy friends) freak out and say OMG don't chop all you hair off!

Dudes, I'm getting half an inch trimmed off to get rid of dead ends. Why do you always assume a haircut means a major hacking of the hair?
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gherkinfiend
12/04/08

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I lopped all my hair off into a pixie crop last week and I'm slightly freaked out to see how many things people associate with it and therefore with me...

I just got sick of dealing with mid-length hair every day so it had to go. It'll also save me a fortune in shampoo and conditioner!
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A Small Turnip
12/04/08

@gherkinfiend: I love your new haircut. I, a round-faced turnip, will never ever be able to cut mine like that. So it gives me great joy to live vicariously through you. And you look like a million bucks.
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gherkinfiend
12/04/08

@ASmallTurnip: but you look fabulous in a 20s style hat...

And your head probably isn't as cold as mine is right now!
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exelizabeth
12/04/08

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I want to cut my hair of really short soon because it's a) so much easier and b) I look better with short hair, so I was googling for hairstyles and came across this blog where this guy talked about how women should NEVER have short hair, it ALWAYS looks worse, it should be illegal, blah blah blah. Which made me want to cut my hair even more because I was like, "Wait, short hair means fewer douchebags will want to hit on me? Sign me up!"
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AllieCaulfield
12/04/08

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I recall reading a study in which men stated one of the worst things women can do to make themselves less attractive is chop off their hair. One poor guy wanted to know what compelled his new wife to look like his neighbour Bill.

Funny that practically every makeover show consists of some horribly drastic haircut for the woman.
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happysquid
12/04/08

@AllieCaulfield: eugh... i think of "The Swan" and its horrendous use of extensions, rendering everyone looking vaguely "Real Housewives of..."
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Understater
12/04/08

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Damn, now I'm in the mood for a Jean Seberg flick. Didn't she just ROCK the pixie cut?
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happysquid
12/04/08

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My sister lopped my hair off into a VERY SHORT haircut and i don't know what it all means.
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exelizabeth
12/04/08

@happysquid: She doesn't want to have sex with you anymore.
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LindsayC: doctoral hilarity ensues
12/04/08

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Ugh you guys- my husband looooooves long hair and is super attached to mine in particular. His grandfather passed away a couple of years ago and I cut my hair very short a day to two later... he thought it was a personal attack. I brought this up recently and he doesn't remember saying "why did you do this to me?" but, yeah, he said it. I think he's getting better- I mentioned the other day that I was going to cut it and he seemed fine but, really? Why did you do this to me? Really?
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exelizabeth
12/04/08

@LindsayC: doctoral hilarity ensues: Awww, it was probably just the grief talking and getting misdirected at you. If he's not generally a jackass, I'd let it slide.

I have to say this story makes me giggle a bit.
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sybann
12/04/08

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Dear Idiot Spouse,

Cutting my hair indicates a desire to spend a lot less time screwing with it.

Sincerely,

Your wife

PS The lack of sex is indicative of your hygiene and prowess.
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morninggloria
12/04/08

@sybann: Yes, per Tracie's post a couple of days ago, maybe she is just trying to send him a hint that he should trim his ball hair.
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