{"id":45,"date":"2012-08-10T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/?p=45"},"modified":"2012-08-10T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:52:10","slug":"arguably-strange-things-ive-done-to-my-body-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/10\/arguably-strange-things-ive-done-to-my-body-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguably strange things I’ve done to my body #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basically shaved off all my hair. For no reason. I kept this up from January 2011 (cut it for a New Year’s Eve party) until sometime in January of ’12.<\/p>\n

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Now that I’m back to being a sucker who pays for her haircuts, I can honestly say that I would do this again. It was great to never have bedhead or hat-head. My hair is too fine to really\u00a0do<\/em> anything, so I didn’t miss the styling aspect at all. Oh, and showering was a cinch.<\/p>\n

I’m certain that my experience is not universal, but if you are a 5’2″ white girl in her mid-2os in Massachusetts, this is what will probably happen when you cut all your hair off:<\/p>\n

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  1. No one will fuck with you.<\/strong>\u00a0For the entire year I went hairless, no one catcalled me, intentionally invaded my personal space or otherwise bothered me.<\/li>\n
  2. You’ll (maybe?) get strange looks.<\/strong> I don’t entirely know about this one, since I get strange looks all the time anyway.<\/li>\n
  3. Strangers will be indifferent. \u00a0<\/strong>At first I worried that people would think I’d gone through chemo (no, I don’t look sick enough) or that I was a (racist) skinhead (probably not, I don’t look hostile enough).<\/li>\n
  4. Or uncomfortable.\u00a0<\/strong>It will be funny when people are obviously uncomfortable but feel the need to address the problem anyway. “Well, that look is certainly… summer-appropriate” – one of my customers.<\/li>\n
  5. Acquaintances will be curious.\u00a0<\/strong> You’ll be asked about family members with cancer, botched dye jobs, if your head gets cold (winter), if your scalp burns (summer).<\/li>\n
  6. Friends will want to touch it.<\/strong> Come on, you knew this was coming.<\/li>\n
  7. No one is satisfied with,\u00a0<\/em>“I didn’t really feel like having hair anymore.”<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Someone in your family will just happen to get cancer and you will feel awkward.<\/strong> And then you will feel more awkward about feeling awkward because you’re thinking about yourself when\u00a0someone else has cancer<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  9. Your father will hate it<\/strong>; this will make it really difficult for you to choose to grow it out.<\/li>\n
  10. You will discover that cheap wigs are made for people who already have hair.<\/strong> You will buy a cute pink wig and it will be far too big for your head.<\/li>\n
  11. The first summer after your hair grows back will suck.<\/strong> Seriously what is this crap plastered to the back of my neck?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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