ninjafaery
How Do You Feel About Hair as a Symbol?
Posted on: 08/14/2009 01:26
Hair as a Symbol.
Hair holds a fascination for it's language, it seems. Even here at WC a thread about leg-shaving has drawn quite a response. How we feel about our hair on any given day. How much attention does it need and how much is received?
In the Early Church, hair was emblamatic. In the stories of Joan of Arc, she circumvents her feminity by cutting her hair short – like a Man's, to relinquish and extinguish her cultural restrictions as a woman for the Glory of God. Biblically, hair was significant – Goliath -- and Paul's admonitions about Public Hair.
What are our current “Hair Stories”? What has it come to symbolize in contemporary society?
Are you having a bad hair day or a good one?
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ninjafaery
Posted on: 08/14/2009 01:28
I meant Sampson, not Goliath. Delilah cut his hair and took away his mojo.
BrettA
Posted on: 08/14/2009 05:11
What are our current “Hair Stories”? What has it come to symbolize in contemporary society? ... Are you having a bad hair day or a good one?
Not completely "current", but the musical "Hair" was pretty symbolic of its time. And in case you didn't know, Montrealer Galt MacDermot wrote much of the music for it - we used a cottage for many summers growing up at the MacDermot's Lake Wonish near Lac-des-Seize-Iles in the Laurentians - A.Y. Jackson stayed there a lot at painter Anne Savage's tiny studio / home - erm... before we went there, of course; though some of his work was still around (Trivia - I).
Edit: Neat! I just Google Mapped it and it's almost unchanged from the last time I was there in '77 or so - 'Our' log cottage with its big circular living room and upstairs is still there, and the other three places as well - two of 'em just tiny. There's just one more new house about 3/4 way down the half-Km long lake, plus tennis courts that I don't remember (but I didn't play so might have missed it). A new approach road is another change from the single-lane - two car tracks only - dirt one I recall from the 50s. Thx, fer the question, NF... I'd never Googled it before and t'was very fun to remember!
Edit II: Neater still! This link shows one of Anne's paintings of Wonish from likely 20 or 30 metres away from the cottage we used - her little studio was maybe 90 m back (directly behind), in the trees. The house is the MacDermot's and the new one I mentioned is another 180 m farther away - off to the left of the painting (distances via Google). Comparing it to Google, this is pretty well exactly how it looks today - 78 years after this painting was done (unless you can see the new road). (I know you guys don't likely care a whole bunch about all this, but it's been kind of building over a coupl'a hours and I'll probably copy/paste and send it to others anyway).
Never a great hair day... but passable, thanks! ... Yours?
Pilgrims Progress
Posted on: 08/14/2009 18:40
When I look back in old photo albums (remember those?) I smile at my many hairstyle changes. I don't know about good and bad hair days - but I definately had my good hair periods.
My own favourite was the Joan Baez look - long, natural, shiny with just a hint of a wave.
My most outrageous was my Afro - so MUCH hair.
My husband's favourite was my Cher perm.
Going back further, my childhood photos make me smile. No changes here - short with a lop-sided ribbon in a bow.
redhead
Posted on: 08/14/2009 19:02
better red than dead ;)
Freundly-Giant
Posted on: 08/14/2009 20:38
I meant Sampson, not Goliath. Delilah cut his hair and took away his mojo.
Oh, Powers, how I love him. Personally, I shaved my head because I got sick of having to deal with "hair styles" and ideals. I figure I'll just let it grow, and if anyone has a problem with it, I'll tell them to take it out with biology.