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Bald women sexy?

Has she lost her mind?

What brought this on?

A friend of mine had to go bald because of an illness.

So, after some thought, I shaved my head and went bald with her as a show of solidarity (my friends already know this, but for those of you who don’t I am female too).

I wanted her to know I sympathize with her, and have compassion for her. I also wanted to let her know there was nothing to fear.

However, I overlooked what society in general thinks about bald women. Among females, a healthy head of hair is an indicator of youth and beauty. We have princess/suburban prom queen stereotypes of normality. Women need hair to have societal approval.

If you are a guy and you shave your head no one says anything. Unfortunately though, if you’re female, the sight of a woman’s bare scalp still makes society’s hair stand on end.

Despite how far we’ve come, beauty and sexuality remain tied to a woman’s hair. There is a certain amount of vanity in those tresses.

Social pressures regarding appearance are generally felt more strongly by women, and female head shaving is considered taboo to many people. Societal norms dictate that “girls should have long hair”. Even when baldness is caused by illness, it is taboo because it flouts conventions of acceptable femininity.

The woman with the crown is Miss Tanzania, who was one of the Miss Universe 2007 candidates. Miss Tanzania had a shaved head during the competition which set off morality issues.

Miss Sweden unexpectedly pulled out of the event because of complaints in her country that 2007’s Miss Universe competition was morally degrading to women.

Morality, societal norms, and taboo are very sensitive issues, but I still want everyone’s opinion on this matter.

So, here are my questions:

• Are women who shave their heads degrading their identity?
• Are bald women sexy?
• What is it about a bald woman that generates so much controversy?
• Why when we see a bald woman do we assume she’s a lesbian, a radical feminist, a political extremist, or a skinhead?
• Why is a bald female head taboo?
• What is it with this global fetish with hair?

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It makes me mad enough to want to tear my hair out but do to some problems I am having with streaming videos from the site I have had to switch to a quicktime movie format, and am converting the videos in the archive. To watch them you will need to download the FREE apple quicktime player, if you don’t already have it on your system. I will try to include download links soon also, so those of you who want to can just download them to your computers, and surf while you wait.

Sorry: I know this is kind of a pain to have to install a new player, if you don’t have it already. Explanations on how to make the install almost pain free follow shortly.

Also the movies since they do not stream will not start playing automatically. You will have to wait for them to download first. The little tv lights in the lower right of your taskbar will stop flashing blue when download is complete and the player will show on the screen. Until then you will see a blue Q, like the one in the picture above. Most movies are short and shouldn’t take long to load. Some however, may take 5 or 10 minutes if they are fairly long. This depends on your connection speed. For example 911 In Plane Site may take 6 or more minutes to download. It is a huge file. Others like FBI bugs cell phones even when the phone is off should take just a few seconds to load.

Some of the annoyances with installing the FREE apple quicktime player can be avoided. First just choose the player without I Tunes. Then instead of just click click clicking yes all the way through the install, instead choose custom where you can you can set player preferences for file types. When that comes up just make sure to check quicktime as your preference for mov files under the video section. You can also uncheck things that are currently handled by other players. Also in preferences you can choose not to have it start on startup which will prevent it from going off every time you fire the computer up, thereby slowing you down.

I plan on solving the stream problem sometime soon, but since I am still sick with pneumonia I do not know how long it will take to get to.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I hate to do it this way. However, I want you to be able to view the movies you want to see. It is the only way for now, until I can figure out why they won’t stream through my normal player.

Until then… This is your hostess Static Brain… Over and Out…

I cracked a rib in a fall about 3 weeks ago, and have since come down with pneumonia. I will update as soon as possible. It is really bad. I am so sick. All I want to do is sleep. But I can’t sleep, laugh, cry or hardly even eat, because I am in so much pain. So please just say a prayer for me, wish me a speedy recovery, and send plenty of good thoughts my way. I could most certainly use a miracle right now.

I am almost finished with the new layout, and working on the final touches. There isn’t much more to add except translation services, and moving archives. I hope you all like the changes I am making. I think it will be easier to navigate this way