Ana, as you may know, has her hair cut very short.

[conuly]

Shaved, really.

She went to stay with her grandmother and came back with some snazzy sneakers. When I asked her, she said she had to really fight with Grandma to get them, because her grandmother didn't want her buying from the boy's side of the aisle and told her she's "too young to make the decision" to have her hair styled the way she does.

I do not pretend to understand this mindset. It's hair, which is what I told Ana.

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Comments

[redbird]

I suspect that "too young to make that decision" means "younger than I am, so I know better" and/or that she knows that "nobody should ever do that" would be less plausible.

Why her grandmother is reacting that way to a shaved head is another, larger set of weirdness, I think.

[conuly]

Because she looks like a boy. (Except that she doesn't now that her body is changing.)

[redbird]

It isn't just looking like a boy, I think, so much as not putting in the expected shape of effort to look like a girl. I'm thinking about some of the reactions roadnotes got to her shaved head, people reading her as fierce or aggressive. (There were also a few people who told her, or her partner, how brave she was being, assuming that no woman would shave her head unless her hair was falling out from chemo.)

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Hair grows, doesn't it? At least, mine does. Cutting it short is hardly an irreversible decision.

[conuly]

One would think.