To wonder why all girls have long hair?

[Mightymoog]

Just driving past the secondary school at home time and every single girl had long hair. Different colours, some wavy, some straight, but every last one of them had long hair.
Where are all the short cuts or even mid length.
when I was at school (admittedly many moons ago )there was a huge range from short and spiky to mid length bobs to long.
just a little something I've been musing on for a while and prepared for people to tell me the local school is an aberration of long hair lovers

The first dozen or so posts have got it wrong. It isn't about fashion.
They can't have short hair unless they want to be asked incessantly what their pronouns are and whether they identify as a boy or girl.
It's yet another absolute disaster of trans ideology.

Similarly when I look back at my school photos virtually every girl had short hair- everyone wanted a Diana cut

Less so for the young and healthy.

It's a response to a poster uploading images of child sexual abuse during the night a few days ago. Horrible. MN are (belatedly) looking into how to use AI and other measure to prevent this happening again. Many would also say they should have paid moderators during the night, which currently they don't.

But the Kardashians don’t all have long hair.
The frequently have bobs. Kim and Kendall have bobs right now.

So does Hailey Bieber.

Zooey Kravitz also had had short hair.

I think it’s easier to have long hair now due to hair extensions and better hair products.

The ad on this thread which popped up for me after post no.16 or thereabouts is a perfect example of this -- presume it's a family group, two males and two females. Dad and son have short hair. Mum and daughter have long hair.
I think it's the overwhelming sameness of the long hairstyle which is newer, there is far less diversity in female hair fashions, especially for the under 30s or even under 40s. Long hair is absolutely the norm.
It's not quite as rigid for men yet, IMO, it's still acceptable for men and boys to have long or short hair. But it might be going the same way -- short hair is seen as 'masculine' and long hair as 'feminine' which is both sad and reductive.

so do you think the range in styles inthe 80s was the aberration and historically girls have had pretty uniform styles?

Why is it's a shame that girls have long hair? What a weird thing to say!

Gender stereotypes have become far more rigid, it’s not just fashion.

Every trans child story begins with strict stereotypes.

There was weirdness that I remember happening with younger generations than me (I was born in the 70s) where they seemed to increasingly like having a box to put themselves in in terms of identity, which has led to this. I started to see it slowly happen about 20 years ago, when my oldest started school, since then it has become more and more strict. Children who don’t fit their born sex stereotypes are trans, without exception IME. It’s very sad. We’ve lost the freedom that we had in the 80s.

It's a lovely trend and l can imagine it's a lot easier to look after too.

lol No.

I would imagine so for Europeans, but I don't know. I'll do some googling.
Was short hair fashionable in the 20s? A decade when women were breaking free of some feminine stereotypes? But I can't picture a European woman pre 20th Century with short hair.

I had v short hair because my mum said I looked like Demi Moore. I looked like I was a small Victorian child going up a chimney in all honesty.

I’ve noticed the same thing and found it odd. When my daughter was in reception and year 1, she was constantly teased by the other kids for “looking like a boy” because her hair was “so short”. Her hair was cut in a bob, it wasn’t even a pixie cut. That made me pay more attention and I noticed that in her three-form year group, there wasn’t a single girl who didn’t have long hair. Then I noticed that there were pretty much no girls who I could see in the entire school who had hair that was shorter than shoulder length. This was in London a few years ago.
when we moved to a less posh bit of London there was slightly more variety of hairstyles among the girls but not much. Here at least my daughter wasn’t teased, it felt less prescriptive.

I think I didn't explain very well what I meant @Originblueberry

Some are fashion as ever.

The girls who would have historically had short hair as they're not worried about fashion, now can't.

It's very in to have long hair I've noticed

Like really long hair

Who do you think of as being popular with teenage girls for trends?

I feel like some people don’t know how many different fashion and styles exist for young people right now.

Not everyone is stroppy, just some of us get a little moody now and then so you will always be up against someone on here😂
It is an interesting observation, it is the same here now you say it, and largely the lads are looking a bit smarter with tidy cut hair.

Why can’t they?

And how do we know they don’t care about fashion?

Most girls I knew in the 80’s had short hair because it was in fashion.

For the same reason that most women from my grandmothers generation had short curly hair - fashion.

I have overheard women from my grandmothers generation complaining about how awful young women's hair looks these days - all long and straggly with no style 😆

Hair conditioner.

I'm in my 50s, growing up most girls had short hair. Long hair was painful - it got tangled, brushing was a nightmare, and it was easier to manage when it was short.

Now of course it's dictated by fashion, but I'm convinced that if hair conditioner (and possibly also hair straighteners) hadn't become mainstream then most girls and women would continue to have short hair.

No, it’s a shame that so many parents and girls don’t have the freedom to choose.

you can say it’s fashion or a choice, but there’s no denying that these days not having long hair is the exception.

i grew up in the 80’s &90’s. Some girls had long hair, some mid length, some short. None were bullied for being a boy or not being feminine enough.