American women and horse hair

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In a totally unscientific / impressionistic way, I've long observed that American women (under 50) tend to overwhelmingly have longish hair (to the shoulders say). I'd put it at 90%. In other countries I've spent time in (New Zealand, Australia, Germany, UK) I'd put the figure at 50%.
I don't particularly like long hair, but it seems American women, and probably men, do. How come?

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.phazeclothing.com/images/products/pics/1188.jpg

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

long hair is to disguise their other shortcomings, such as being chinless, running shoes, questionable teeth, lack of consonants, etc.

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm too lazy to get a haircut

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

ts: screwed hairs vs. chopped hairs

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

ya'll are totally mean with this horsehair and being chinless, etc.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

"To the shoulders" is longish? Can I suggest that, say, middle of the back is "longish" and potentially horsey by your definition, and to the shoulders is medium/normal/average? Is that not the case in UK/Continent??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

misinterpretaiton alert. misinterpretaiton alert. xpost alert

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

in Russia, hair cuts you

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I can't recall seeing a single woman in India with short hair.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

HOW. INDIAN WOMAN HAVE BIG HAIR FOR STRENGTH

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I like to keep my hair longer for two reasons. 1. I can get it into a ponytail and get it off my face and 2. It is cheap; I don't need to get haircuts all the time.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhair

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.barrelhousechuck.com/photos/mystory9/images/Professor%20Longhair.jpg

― (jacob) (ockle boc), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tlhp.de/

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love this thread title.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2004_04_001896.php

"Weitz says all the Mexican-American women she interviewed for her book talked about how important long hair was for women in their families."

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

i'm american and i don't consider shoulder-length hair to be particularly long for a woman. so maybe you have something here.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.edcug.org/news/Crystal-Gayle-Hair.jpg

you are cystal gayle, you are crystal gayle

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

long hair = freedom. do you hate freedom, terrorist?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i was gonna say. sine when does long = shoulder length! butt length, now you're talking....

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

how come? because it cancels tv shows.

beloved:
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3590/felicitylonggv1.jpg

cancelled:
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8127/felicityshorttc8.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

i've been told (when people were trying to persuade me not to cut my hair, even though it looks stringy and awful long) that long hair makes women look more feminine and attractive and approachable. so maybe it's an american guy thing too :P

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Crystal Gale's hair was SO FUCKING NASTY.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tlhs.org/l_hair76.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

You can practically smell the "old ham" dirty hair smell just looking at that picture! BLEAUGH

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

i like the second from the left where she's got shorter hair tonged/permed into curls to frame the face.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. that about 2 inches away from a mullet.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

My god, that little girl looks so sad.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S A DWARF

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Horse hair? I've NEVER EVER heard that phrase, or anything
like it, in my entire life. So you must be on to something.
When it comes to hot hair, I say the longer the better (as long
as it's well kept).

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW, as I was growing up my religious parents (Salvadorean
mom, American dad) made it very clear that girls should have
long hair, and men should have short hair. Guys with long
hair must be effeminate and sinful. Today, I'm not bound
by this intellectually but it had to have had an effect.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Konal otm. o this thread title. :D

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

http://www.scottgbrooks.com/art/horse_woman.jpg

― bobby bedelia, Thursday, 12 July 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

i saw this mess while on vacation last week:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/nijoli/Image016.jpg

― ni jo leeeeeee, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

shoulder-length hair is long hair only if you're a dude

― Heave Ho, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

go big arnj

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

I am very pro short hair. I've only had long hair once during my sophomore year in high school and it was pretty terrible. I think short hair just suits my face/personality. In general, I think short hair on girls is more interesting!

― ENBB, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

I used to think this too. But you have to cut short hair too frequently.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that is kind of a bitch.

― ENBB, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Short hair makes girls faces look all round. doesn't frame things well at all.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

depends how short and *where* it is short

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

This thread makes me feel like my hair is too long.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Are you Crystal Gayle?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

a buddy of mine's brother used to date a girl that had a pony-tail butt plug??? like, she'd be "wearing" it and she'd have this big long flowing tail, like a pretty pretty pony

o_0

― river wolf, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

No, and I haven't quite reached Nicolette Grant lengths either. It's just the longest I've ever had it in my life.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not anti-short hair on women at all, but I do think that european women tend to have their hair cut more severely. The women look a little more masculine and the European men tend to look more feminine than American men.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about weaves.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

We can make it about weaves. My dad has a great one.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

In his early 30s he was balding and looking not the greatest. Then he got this weave at some point and he looks fabulous.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://hbtails.com/Images/BeforeAfterPoster_New.jpg

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

hahah. . .

Before Harry Potter last night they were showing a little making of documentary. Crookshanks the cat was getting hair extensions.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

The women look a little more masculine and the European men tend to look more feminine than American men.

You're wrong on the first count.

― Tom D., Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/445854421_6c540469e5.jpg

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe so, Tom, but am I right about the second?

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, I don't spend as much time gawping at men

― Tom D., Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

a buddy of mine's brother used to date a girl that had a pony-tail butt plug??? like, she'd be "wearing" it and she'd have this big long flowing tail, like a pretty pretty pony

o_0

-- river wolf, Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:29 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ok so no one is going to even acknowledge that this was said??

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

We were trying hard not to.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

that actually made it to the ass thread

― kenan, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I have this sensor I developed in my mind from growing up with my mom, so I didn't even notice that said butt plug!

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

i am just basically aghast at the idea that the guy kept dating her after discovering this

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Did it match the rest of her hair? I mean, did it look NATURAL?

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I think most guys would allow the willing to stick something up her ass to make up for the horseplay-bit.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

you have a very low opinion of men, obviously.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Did it match the rest of her hair? I mean, did it look NATURAL?

LOLOL

― kenan, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

you have a very low opinion of men, obviously.

Ha ha! Sorry, a life of bad experiences. I'm not doubting they wouldn't talk shit about her later but they'd still hit it.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

i am just basically aghast at the idea that the guy kept dating her after discovering this

-- the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:25 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

...recent intel indicates that maybe he bought it for her

― river wolf, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

ok so no one is going to even acknowledge that this was said??

I didn't understand it. I still don't. :-(

― nathalie, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I want a tail [Started by *rumpie*, last updated 28 seconds ago] 3 new answers

― Tom D., Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Short hair makes girls faces look all round. doesn't frame things well at all.

RONG

http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/img/dance14.gif

― Phil D., Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

i am just basically aghast at the idea that the guy kept dating her after discovering this

-- the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:25 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

So he should have... screamed and run? I personally don't think this is that weird, on the grand scale of weird. I know I'm just begging for abuse by saying it, but please. Horse tail butt plug = fine by me. If you're into it.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

BRET:
If you want me to
I can hang ‘round with you
If I only knew
That’s what you’re into.

JEMAINE:
You and him
Him and you
If that’s what
You’re into
Him hanging ‘round
Around you
You’re hanging ‘round
Yeah, you’re there too.

BRET:
And if you want me to
I will take off all my clothes for you
I’ll take off all my clothes for you
If that’s what you’re into

JEMAINE:
How ‘bout him
In the nude?
If that’s what
You’re into.
In the nude in front of you
Is that what
you’d want to view?

BRET:
If it’s cool with you
I’ll let you get naked too
It could be a dream come true
Providing that’s what you are into

JEMAINE:
Is that what
You’re into?
Him and you
In the nude?
That’s what he’s prepared to do
Is that the kind of thing
you think you might be into?

BRET:
And then maybe later
We’ll get hot by the refrigerator
In the kitchen
next to the pantry
You think that might be what you fancy?

JEMAINE:
In the buff
Being rude
Doing stuff
With the food
Getting lewd
With his food
We heard that’s what you are into

BRET:
Then on our next date
Well, you could bring your roommate
I don’t know if Stu is keen to
But if you want we could double-team you

JEMAINE:
How about you
And two dudes?
Him, you and Stu
In the nude
Being lewd with two dudes with food
Well, that’s if Stu’s into it, too

BRET:
All the things I’d do
The things I’d do for you
If I only knew
That’s what you’re into

― kenan, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

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