Hair

I was looking at a woman's hair today and I thought it was strange. Her hair was perfectly normal, of course, but the normalcy itself was so strange to me. The more I thought about it, the more reasons I came up with that I think the hair on our heads is strange.

In our culture, it is considered attractive for skin to be a uniform color, right? That's what tanning beds are about. Heaven forbid one part of your body more tan than another. There's also make-up to hide un-even skin tones.

Also in our culture, hair is generally unwanted and unattractive. How many products do we have to remove hair? The ever popular razors, chemicals that disolve hair, wax that rips it out, tweezers that do the same thing only slower, and laser hair removal. We women shave (or remove hair in some way) everything from our legs to our bikini lines to our under arms and usually we pluck our eyebrows, and depending on how dark our hair is or how sensitive we are, we do our lips, arms, knuckles and/or feet. And men shave their faces and are more and more catching up to women in removing a lot of excess hair from other places.

Now look at our hair. It's the only hair that grows as long as you'll let it. All the other hair on our bodies have a maximum length (even if that length is longer than you'd prefer). So it's different from any other place on our bodies, which goes against our tastes in sameness as described in the first paragraph. And we don't like hair, as described in the second paragraph, so why are we letting this huge patch of it grow like we are, and even styling it so that other people notice it? The hair on our heads just seems to go against everything else we find attractive or desirable, and I thought it was weird.