Shorter hair helps a lot in the summer heat. With the advent of warmer temperatures, my wife and I are both sporting shorter hair, just in the past week. At lunch today, when someone commented on Becka's new do, someone mentioned a classic I sent out as an iv a number of years ago, pointing out how differently men and women behave after a new haircut. (BTW, I don't know who the guy is in the series of hairdo pix. Whew! Not his best looks, though!)
Haircuts - the difference between women and men
WOMEN'S VERSION
Woman 1: Oh! You got a haircut! That's so cuuuuute!
Woman 2: Do you think so? I wasn't sure when she gave me the mirror. I mean, you don't think it's too fluffy looking?
Woman 1: Oh no, it's perfect! I'd love to get my hair cut like that, but I think my face is too wide. I'm pretty much stuck with this style, I think.
Woman 2: Are you serious? I think your face is adorable. And you could easily get one of those layer cuts - that would look so cute on you. I was actually going to do that except that I was afraid it would accent my long neck.
Woman 1: Oh, now that's funny! I would love to have your neck! Anything to take attention away from this two-by-four I have for a shoulder line.
Woman 2: Are you kidding? I know girls that would love to have your shoulders. Everything drapes so well on you. I mean, look at my arms - see how short they are? If I had your shoulders I could get clothes to fit me so much easier.
Woman 1: Do you think so? Oh, you're just saying that!
Woman 2: No! Really, I mean it....
MEN'S VERSION
Man 1: Haircut?
Man 2: Ummhmm.
The preceding reminds me of a blog post from over two years ago called It's great to be a guy that you might enjoy.
housekeeping items...
With the end of the school year drawing near, I know that some of you who read my posts by e-mail might be losing the e-mail address at which you are reading this. If that's the case with you, please click on the link at the bottom of the e-mail to unsubscribe, then go to the blog and use one of the links to posts by e-mail to sign up your new e-mail address, remembering to complete the process by clicking on the link in that e-mail you'll receive almost immediately.
Speaking of those who read my posts by e-mail, I mentioned in the last post that I was missing several images from a previous post. Two of my readers were able to supply me with the missing pictures! I'm glad I'm not the only "digital packrat" out there! 
I have thanked them by e-mail, in an editorial update to my last post, and in the post that was missing the pictures.
Do you have any funny haircut stories to share? Or any haircut nightmares? Since I cut my own hair, I have no one else to be mad at but myself.
quotation...
"Where there is a neglect of Scripture, there will be a neglect of Christ." - Dr. Drew Conley
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Rob
Two hair-related questions:
Men: What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
Women: What hair color do some women put on their driver's licenses..."subject to change?"
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on Apr 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Women’s hair as “subject to change”?! Ha!! LOL! Love it! Sometimes the change isn’t even on purpose!
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Men and women are so different in their interactions with each other. Tell me if I’m wrong, but it seems like man-to-man complements are often disguised in sarcasm or joke. An example would be for a haircut, “I see you got your ears lowered.”
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 8:24 am
@Melissa – Some of us men don’t think it’s fair. We don’t recognize some women sometimes, and it’s because they look so radically different because of their hair – color or do. I guess women would classify that as part of their feminine mystique?
@Vikki – I think you may right on that one. Vive la différence!
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 10:27 am
My experience has been that women’s haircuts are typically more drastic than men’s; therefore, it’s more noticeable when a woman gets her haircut. I think overall women are more easily offended when a new haircut or new hairstyle is not noticed approvingly by others. Men don’t seem to care so much. Again, men typically get haircuts not new hairstyles so it’s not as big of a change for us.
The one time I did make a change in hairstyles I made the mistake of doing so over a weekend during the school year so that Monday I showed up to school with a drastically new look, I got lots of laughs and questions and funny looks from many students. I should have tried to do it over a vacation or something like that.
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
After years of very long hair that I usually wore braided and pinned up, I finally got it chopped to shoulder-length, and shortly after I had it layered. My own brother almost didn’t recognize me.
But what made me laugh is that, though a few people did notice my new look, *everyone* noticed the first time I wore pants to work instead of a skirt!
on May 1st, 2009 at 2:47 am
Hi Rob ~ I’m just now reading your blog since way back around April 17th. Your feed on bloglines hasn’t been updated since then, and I wondered why you weren’t writing. I figured it all had to do with the hacking, etc. So tonight I came directly to your blog and found many posts I hadn’t seen! I then updated to a different feed. Anyway, glad to see that you are back in business and that nothing is wrong.
on May 1st, 2009 at 6:28 am
@Michael – Usually we men don’t change our hair as drastically as women sometimes do … or it used to be that way! In recent years, guys get perms, highlights, etc. Back when Cherrydale Point first opened, I got a coupon in the mail for a $2 haircut at Great Clips. I thought I’d give it a try. I told the young thing that I wanted the same haircut I currently had, just shorter all over. Well, from the first swipe with the clippers, I could feel that my look was going to be radically altered … and it was! Fortunately it was in the summer, but it took the rest of the summer to grown it out so that I didn’t look like a mushroom! I immediately renamed the place “Not-so-great Clips!”
BTW, the platinum highlights you see in my hair are all natural. You can’t pay enough to achieve this look! 
@Heather – The change in your hair sounds like adequate reason for even your brother to have to figure out if he knew you. That’s quite a bit of change for the male mind to take in!
I just *love* it (NOT!) when former students are back visiting on campus, they bear no resemblance to the person I knew as a student, and they almost insist that I dredge up a name when their appearance is no help. I usually just say, “I’m sorry, you’re going to have to help me,” (and finish the statement in my thoughts only, “as you should have immediately when you appeared here looking like someone I’ve never met and yet am supposed to remember!”) 
@Deb – Sorry about the feed thing. For all the messing around with recovering twice from being hacked, I think I managed to keep up the normal rhythm of my posts. I’m glad you persisted!