Social connotations of a blond bob

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Help me find a grip.

For most of my life, I've had short (bobbed) blond hair. Always liked it. It suits me. Then lockdown happened, and it grew out. Kept it long because couldn't be arsed. Now want to go back to my old bob, but somehow the last few years have convinced me that there are certain social connotations to blond bobs... even in the Big Little Lies book (the Lianne Moriarty novel), there's a genre of person called "the blond bobs" (pushy middle class mums). My kids call a blond bob the "Karen cut".

In general, I don't give a f* what other people think of my appearance really. I'm in my late 40s and am generally over people-pleasing. But somehow it feels political to have a blond bob.

Tell me I'm ridiculous.

FFS OP, haven't you anything better to worry/think about?

There’s no need to get that nasty and personal over a haircut.

Sorry, my bad.

Just the ridiculousness of the whole thing really blew me away. 🤣

Blonde bob actually sounds bright and practical!

Mine is black, curly and a nightmare so perhaps I'm just jealous!!

@Grumpyarchitect ypu are both rude and wrong. Appearance is subject to judgement - it's human nature to make instant assessments of other people, which we then refine as more information becomes available.
Haircuts are included in this - rightly or wrongly, we make judgements about skinheads and kids who have a 'meet me at McDonald's' cut, hair dye, mullets, all sorts really.
Calling someone a pleb for asking a perfectly reasonable question is just cunty.

But calling someone cunty isn't cunty?

Don't give a damn. If you like your hair, keep it. Silly stereotypes are just that.

What a load of nonsense.
You need to get a handle on your kids.

As a side our director has a blonde bob, several of my young colleagues ( aged 20-30) have a blonde bob as well and maybe next week I will have one too depending on what my hairdresser decides!
Google 'celebrities with blonde bob hair' and you will find there are plenty of them with variations of the bob and look great. You don't have to look like someone that has given up on life!

Political my arse!
Do blokes in their 40's ever fret about their hairstyles and wonder if they are 'political'?

Wow nobody has said that before EVER. Such a clever and cool post <yawns>

This Karen name calling is pathetic, you should have a word with your kids! I have a choppy Bob love it and I’m in my sixties, there are some great bobs out there, mines not blonde, so yeh I think you are being ridiculous, do what you want to do

I had a blonde Bob in 1995 when I was sixteen. I have very long hair in my forties now! It’s still blonde, but it grows out of my head that way. I do sometimes wonder if I look like a witch these days.

Whoever did that haircut should be up in front of a tribunal in The Hague.

👏🏻👏🏻

My best wishes to you.

I agree completely with your sentiment expressed

I had significant unwanted hair loss earlier this year, it has, at the moment become nearly long enough to be a blonde bob.

It's heartbreaking because it's not "my" hair, and now I find it comes with a side order of prejudice. Great.

Why don't you endeavour to be less of a prick to the OP?

You're being ridiculous. No one actually cares enough about it for this to be a thing. Your kids are winding you up. It's not very nice of them.

I've never know a blonde bob to be a Karen thing!

I certainly notice when people have blonde hair and either dark roots or dark eyebrows and it just looks very false IMO. I would never think- of they are a Karen though!

Almost every meme here has a woman with a blonde bob in it.

My DC say I’m being a Karen at times. It’s a joke.

The first I heard of it was when we were on holiday and I asked to see the hotel manager (I wasn’t getting anywhere with reception staff and it was a legitimate issue!).

Whilst waiting I noticed that my DC were no longer standing behind me. They had hidden behind some plants.

They explained that they had hidden due to embarrassment as “That is what a Karen says”, with reference to my request to see the manager. They showed me some TikTok clips so I could catch up. The DC weren’t entirely serious though and some of the clips are funny - I got the gist of what a Karen is supposed to be, and I didn’t read it as “a woman who sticks up for herself” - they seem like a parody of an entitled white woman who speaks to service staff like dirt.

Recently my DD said to me that I “went full Karen” when asked to speak to a manager somewhere else (this is not something I do a lot, although it sounds like it here!). I wasn’t offended 😂 should I have been?

Also blonde and avoiding a bob. Just to be on the safe side.

You are ridiculous! (As requested.)

Almost every meme here has a woman with a blonde bob in it
Most of the haircuts are pobs rather than a bob.

@ImAvingOops ohhh what is this ??
‘kids who have a 'meet me at McDonald's' cut,’

the mind boggles

My DC say I’m being a Karen at times. It’s a joke
Yes, a misogynistic one.

I still call it a pob in my head!

this with bells on!

Go and get your blonde bob back!

Thinking about it both my last 2 top bosses had blonde bobs.
As long as you don’t look like Borris Johnson you’ll be fine.