Cool! Feminists have found a new way to make women look superficial and weak.
According to a report from New York Magazine, females in the D.C. area have resorted to chopping off their hair and reaching for black hair dye to cope with the new reality of a Donald Trump presidency. Some feminists say their new ‘dos show their “autonomy” in uncertain times; while others hilariously think their rushed hair change is an act of defiance, “send[ing] a message to the Trump presidency.”
Boy, the president-elect sure is going to lose sleep over a few D.C. women rocking sassy bobs.
Hillary Clinton backer Julianna Evans, 45, told the mag that she “cried for three days” after Trump won. “I felt like it was the worst thing, politically, that ever happened in my lifetime. It was catastrophic,” she said.
But then, this brave soul “put on her big-girl panties and dragged herself to the drugstore.”
“Literally without thinking, I grabbed the Natural Black box by Garnier,” explained Evens. “I was like, f** it! The election deadened my soul. I think I wanted to do something defiant to feel stronger.”
Brave. Strong. Beautiful. Etc.
One client told her stylist: “Think of Melania Trump and go in the opposite direction.” She added, “I don’t want to be that person people see as sexual, I want to be seen as strong.”
Dr. Kristian Henderson, a George Washington University teaching instructor, was “battling with her hair for years, but after the election, she finally took off her weave and cut it all off.”
“The election results felt like an attack on minorities, women, and marginalized people in general. Having long hair was my attempt to fit into society, so after the election, I felt a need to exert my ‘uniqueness’ and not tie my femininity to the length of my hair,” she said.
A self-described “minority in every way possible,” Vegan chef Mya Zeronis, explained that she “clipper-cut” her hair in November “to send a message to the Trump presidency.”
That will show ’em!
Evans explained her and her fellow feminists’ reactions to the magazine:
“You have to live here to understand that we are immersed in politics every day,” she said. “For many of us, with this election, it’s like your boyfriend dumped you in a really shocking way with no explanation and then moved in next door.”
Apparently Evans believes that her new hairstyle will help combat this perceived, yet totally nonexistent, comeback of sexism and misogyny: “Now, I feel like my hair says you can’t bring me down. This misogyny will not persevere. The bumper sticker for me is, ‘I am woman, hear me roar.'”
Feminists are so inspiring.