Having previously taken on such dire threats to Western Civilization as “fat girls,” “manginas,” and “rape tourettes,” the pickup-artists-cum-worldly-philosophers over at Roosh Valizadeh’s Return of Kings blog have decided to take on an even more insidious danger: Women — sorry, girls — with short hair.
In an alarming expose, guest blogger Tuthmosis reveals the shocking tuth, er, truth:
No woman in all of human history has ever looked better with short hair than she would with a head full of healthy locks.
So why are so many women choosing to cut off the long hair that men so universally admire (allegedly)? Tuthmosis has a few theories. One is that other women are convincing them to do it so that they can have all the short-hair-hating men to themselves. Yep. It’s hair sabatoge!
Women are quick to encourage other women to cut their hair by telling them how “cute” it is. While I’m no scientist, I’m convinced this is some deep, genetic programming at work, one that forces women—who compete with one another on a physical level on a daily basis—to encourage any behavior that might eliminate competitors in the dating pool.
And straight men contribute to this sorry state of affairs, too. Well, “cowardly and deluded men” anyway, according to Tuthy — though why exactly being “cowardly and deluded” would cause men to encourage women to cut their hair is never quite explained.
Tuthy also blames gay men, who apparently have the power to sway the minds of women en masse.
The plaudits a Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, or Anne Hathaway receive when they cut their hair off—from people who have no business commenting on the attractiveness of women, like gay men—creates a copycat cycle that increases the trend geometrically.
So what exactly is the problem with short hair? Don’t get Tuthy started on that!
Seriously, don’t get him started, because what he says makes no fucking sense.
The truth of the matter is that long hair’s almost universally attractive to men, when they’re actually speaking honestly (without trying to appease women in the room). Furthermore, it’s a symbol of youth, femininity, and health. Why can’t old women grow long hair? Because it’s an ephemeral trait of your fertile years.
Women instinctively know this, which is why every American girl who cuts, and keeps, her hair short often does it for ulterior reasons. Short hair is a political statement.
A political statement of what? A political statement that she won’t put up with assholes like you?
And, invariably, a girl who has gone through with a short cut—and is pleased with the changes in her reception—is damaged in some significant way. Short hair is a near-guarantee that a girl will be more abrasive, more masculine, and more deranged.
Ah, ok. So it does mean that she won’t put up with assholes like you.
I’d developed that belief on years of platonic interactions alone. The bitchiest work colleagues, the most difficult cashier, the most confrontational, aggressive cunts in bars have all shared one trait—short-ass hair.
Yep, it definitely means that.
Tuthy then relates the horrors he faced during his own brief experiences dating women with short hair.
One had rape fantasies and used four-letter words! (These are your complaints? The guy who runs the blog you’re posting on is an actual admitted rapist, and you yourself just used the word “cunt.”)
Another used racial slurs and later got an unflattering “soccer mom” haircut! (Racial slurs? I mean, that’s a dealbreaker for me, but you’re writing for a blog that’s crawling with out-and-proud racists. Aren’t racial slurs right up your alley?)
Yet another jerked him off while texting! (You’re not going to at least give her credit for her manual dexterity?)
He concludes with this:
Not only is short-hair unattractive, it’s one of the biggest signals a man can get that a woman is damaged beyond repair.
In other words, short hair on women appears to repel a certain kind of asshole. Make use of that information as you wish.
EDITED TO ADD: Oh dear. Apparently Tuthy’s dumb post was so dumb and offensive it managed to “go viral”” and generate a ton of hate-traffic for Return of Kings. Roosh, naturally, has decided to try to fan the flames with a “publisher’s note” reiterating Tuthy’s, er, “argument” and helpfully revealing to his new readers what a shithead he is.
Here are some quotes, along with some photos to remind us just who it is who is lecturing women about their hairstyles.
Sadly, the women who are blasting us right now with vulgar speech and masculine manner are treading the line of self-mutilation with their pixie cuts. If you know a girl who has voluntarily chopped off such a reliable indicator of female beauty and fertility, nothing short of an intervention with all family and friends is necessary to force the victim to grow her hair back out.
I part now with a message of hope. Women: unless you have a smushed pig face, your attractiveness increases at least 6% for every inch your hair passes your shoulders. Don’t listen to people who are trying to sabotage your beauty by encouraging you to adopt a lesbian haircut.
We are the only ones who will be brutally honest with you. We are not shy to state where objective female beauty comes from, unlike the saboteurs in your life who are just trying to make it harder for you to find a good husband.
And for those of you especially sick women who think that you are going to punish us by cutting your hair, you’re only punishing yourself. Being lonely and having to settle for a brood of cats is not a good life for a woman, but that’s what will happen if you keep your hair short.
I have longish hair and it gets everywhere. I’ve even found a strand of it in the fridge. But it grows, and thus falls out, very quickly – about a centimetre a month. Plus, it’s black and fairly strong, so it’s very visible. My mother has short white hair, and it turns up all over as well, if you can see it.
Then of course there’s the ultimate hair for getting into things – cat hair!
This is gross, but is a lot easier to pick nits and lice out of short hair. Maybe that’s what was meant by “more sanitary?”
Yeah I’ve dipped mine in everything from soup to ketchup (which is surprisingly hard to get out without resorting to washing all my hair, something I don’t do more than every couple of days because it turns into a giant static ball otherwise). And in my mouth while eating — go to pull the hair out thinking one got loose and into the food only to realize it’s attached and covered in food. Yum.
I can see shorter hair being easier to keep clean if running water is in short supply, some things just do NOT wipe out!
Mum would freak out if she read this conversation. She really, really hates hair getting in food (human hair, that is – kitty hair doesn’t get the same reaction). She’d nearly gag if an ad for one of Nigella Lawson’s shows came on, with all that long hair flopping around.
I think longish hair is probably the worst for getting into things. It’s easier for it to swing around from in back of you to in front of you without your meaning it to. Waist-length-or-longer hair is in some ways easier to deal with, though if it’s down, especially if it’s not in a braid, it gets caught on things a lot (e.g. the screws holding school chairs together–hard chairs are femmephobia!), in part because there are few enough people with that hair length that things aren’t built around that particular hazard.
I thought of the nits/lice thing, then though, “No, a bob wouldn’t be short enough to make a difference, you’d pretty much have to shave it”, but I was thinking of it in terms of lice being able to cling to the hair at all, rather than in terms of picking them out. I think kittehserf and Argenti right the lack of running water is probably a lot of the reason. And it probably depends on your job somewhat; I’m not really prone to getting things into my hair.
I sail. Long hair on a boat – bloody nuisance. Permanently blown across your face & blocking your view. Before I got the short-hair cut, had to go with a single plait combined with a bandana to keep the fringe out of my eyes. Neither comfortable nor flattering.
They used to shave women’s heads in the concentration camps under the pretext of de-lousing, but since typhus-carrying body lice still abounded in the straw bedding, that was probably a lost cause. The men got their heads shaved too, but I think the ultimate intent was to traumatize the prisoners, especially the women, by disfiguring them and essentially saying, “We are in control. Not even your hair is your own.”
OMG I just found pictures of myself when I had dreds. I looked super cute, but I hated those things. So much work to care for! I ended up washing them out with an entire bottle of conditioner after only a few months. Never again. But they were so cute!!!
Are dreds misandry?
Bina – I think they also sold the hair for wigs in the camps, didn’t they?
closetpuritan, you’re right, longish hair gets everywhere. Min’s a bit past shoulder length and layered, and it’s forever flicking into my face (I’ll pay that price though, lol).
Hair caught in chair screws OW OW OW
fromafar – women’s hair is always misandry. Short hair, well, tuthy told everyone that means a woman’s deranged/damaged/something. Long hair is just leading men on and tempting them with our FERTILITY (because old women totes don’t have long hair) and it’s even worse if we don’t fuck them the moment they get a twitch of the boner.
No…worse.
Oh, gods, my skin’s crawling after reading that.
I know this thread’s old now, but I had to say,
@oraclenine, I loved that image:
And now I’m going back to my ‘Jeeves and Wooster’, in which Wodehouse just described a man as looking like:
“A sheep with a secret sorrow.”
(Following on from an old conversation, if anybody remembers. I hate Hugh Laurie as House, he’s awesome in Blackadder, but I LOVE him as Bertie Wooster.)
I’ve only seen snippets of Blackadder but I love the scene in the WWI series where Baldrick’s reciting his poetry – BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM – and Hugh Laurie’s character is entranced while Blackadder’s nearly pulling his hair out.
(I also love that Tony Robinson is now Sir Tony. If only that had happened while Time Team was still in production … I’d love to have heard the ribbing he’d have got.)
Sorry, I know I said I’d post no more videos for a while, but this, I couldn’t resist:
http://youtu.be/7UKpZxM-c9w
Stop apologisin’ for posting videos, they’re good!
Hey, didja get my email last night?
::thinks “I’m sure I sent it … um …”::
Ooo, ooo, lovely knitting. Fibi emailed me too, had a hell of a day and hadn’t checked my email.
How do you knit like that, making it up as you go along? Beautiful pic by the way, and Fribs is called Freya really? I did not know that. Loverly name.
And that comment is just a string of words, hopefully you get my meaning.
Love to Louis. 🙂
Yes I do get it, Miss String o’ Words! (Call it stream of consciousness, it sounds fancier.)
I started out intending to do the same shape as the Aston jacket – the triangular shape. But I got the number of stitches wrong, or was reducing it too fast, or something, so just went straight up the sides instead. I did work out how many cables I’d need to put in, that wasn’t hard – y’know, six-stitch cable and twelve stitches between them – and the reducing bits at the edges just eat into that. Doing the front was trickier, I had to figure out how it’d measure sideways, but it worked out all right. The upper back’s all in rib, so there was no extra cable stuff to worry about there. The sleeves are straight, it was just knitting till it was long enough then counting how many stitches that was.
Yup, Freya is Fribbie’s real name! She hardly ever gets called that, though, same as Maddie Mads is seldom Madeleine and Katie was seldom Caitlin. Most of our kitties have strings of nicknames – Mamie had fifty!
Speaking of Fribs and Katie, it’s eighteen years today since we bought the pair of them as unbearably cute kittens, and it’s five years today since Katie crossed over. She’s deigned to visit here today, she’s in Louis’s lap. She’s got him pinned down and isn’t going anywhere. 😀
@Kitteh,
Aw, so cute. Can’t believe our Willow is 15 and, after our scare with her at Christmas, she’s still with us (and begging Mr M for cake as we speak). It goes so fast. Your knitting is fab.
Bit worried about talking to you on MB now, which is a shame, as some people seem to think things are a bit cliquish here. Think I’m gonna give MB a bit of a break for a while, my psych’s given me OCD homework that I really need to focus on, no stress. I’m so sorry for jumping ship, when I’m feeling a bit less stressed I’ll be back with many, many videos.
It just feels like some people are saying ‘there wouldn’t be a problem with ableism if you mental people quit complaining about it.’
It’s just getting a bit horrible, and I’m fed up of it. I will make sure I email you lots of funny pics though.
Sorry for not being able to deal with it.
Hugs. xxx
No probs, hon! Drop me an email whenever you want.
I’m getting sick of the “it’s so cliquish/language police!” waffle going on here, too, but that’s just a rolling-my-eyes thing, it’s not one that hurts me, so different level (does that make sense?)
Hmm, demanding cake, eh? There is no end to kitties’ needs and wants (same thing, really). ::shakes head::
@Kitteh, thanks luv, sorry for the flounce, just need to concentrate on my stuff for a bit. Oh, and sorry about your camera, what a pain! I’ll email you soon,
Love to Louis. x
Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, and Anne Hathaway! Hideous, hideous, HIDEOUS women!
He still looks better than you FATTROLL!!!!
Wow. Fat girls do not deserve love. I suppose, though, that fat men do?
This, alone, shows the shallow and inane reality behind the facade. Just to set the record straight, I have always been a fat girl. And I have had the pleasure and deep happiness of being loved by my husband for 42 years.
People come in all shapes and sizes. I find it FASCINATING that men like that really believe that men can come in all sizes and be deserving of love, but the ladies had better eat nothing but salads if we want love. Hypocritical idiots.