Text: When you get through denial but the call of the void to cut all your hair is back

  • lurch (he/him)
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    228 months ago

    personally, i think hair length is not a gender thing. so that’s my two cents

    • @[email protected]
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      238 months ago

      You’re right, hair length isn’t really a gender thing. On the other hand, hair length is totally a gender thing. But like not inherently? Yet it still is for sure. Fucking everything about gender be that way 😮‍💨

    • First Majestic CometM
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      58 months ago

      Yeah, gender stereotypes are kinda dumb. Especially the hair length thing, why is it seen as feminine to have long hair, or masculine to have short hair. Our hair grows at the same rate regardless of gender, and before scissors everyone just had long hair, so why is there such a focus on it anyway?

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        Probably because men stereotypically don’t spend as much time on their appearance as women stereotypicallydo. Long hair takes significantly more effort than short hair, but can be styled more as well.

        • First Majestic CometM
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          28 months ago

          Hmm that is a good point, long hair certainly does take more effort to maintain and keep looking nice.

  • Norah - She/They
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    38 months ago

    I shave an undercut on one side these days when that feeling comes up, works a treat :)

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      There is a cycle of acceptance, but that is more geared to those who receive bad news.

      Those stages are denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance.

      I wouldn’t call the process of understanding oneself bad news, but I’m a non-egg.

  • First Majestic CometM
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    8 months ago

    Could it be possible that you might be genderfluid, even slightly?

    I ask because with gender fluidity you might suddenly feel like a different gender and the things that felt affirming before stop feeling that way when it happens. I have genderfluid friends who have similar experiences to what you’re having here.

  • Riskable
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    28 months ago

    Trough denial is a a good way to end up in the trough. It’s a slippery slope!