The perils of short hair

[mousme]

I have discovered that having your hair super short when it's very fine and very thick as a rule has a drawback: it acts like a sponge with water. So either I have to spend a fair amount of time toweling it dry, or else I have to take a blow dryer to it for a couple of minutes. Sheesh. It was practically easier to deal with when it was nearly down to my elbows and I just didn't bother drying it at all (I just braided it and let it do its own thing).

Also, I got sir'd by a teenage boy today. He was selling chocolates door to door (and woke me up, naturally). That's three people who've mistaken me for a man.

Now, don't get me wrong: I get that gender is a social construct, blah blah blah. But seriously, come on! I do NOT look like a man even with my hair short. I am very unmistakeably a woman. It's starting to get annoying, to have my gender determined just by society's perception of what my haircut means.

Anyway, I'm apparently cranky today. I was up until past noon because I had to run errands and my nice cleaning lady comes every second Wednesday from nine to noon (and try sleeping when the vacuum is running!), and so I had to sacrifice Hump Night at Hurley's to the sleep gods instead.

Now I have to get ready for work, and I have a serious case of the "I don't wannas."

Comments

[irishyogini.livejournal.com]

I had boy-short hair for most of my young life. I *know* how that feels.

(((hugs)))

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

I am very unmistakeably a woman.

I can assure you that this statement is quite accurate, with long or short hair, or none. I think you've been unlucky to run into 3 extremely unobservant (or distracted) people.

I hope the sleep gods were kind :) Don't fret too much about Hump day...that's the good part about 'em...there's one every week!

[876454332.livejournal.com]

Transmen are often told *not* to have their hair too short, because it actually hinders their chances of passing. Something to do with it emphasizing the shape and size of feminine skulls. So very much in agreement that the three people must have been distracted or unobservant! :)