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

Surely girls just have long hair because it looks nicer if its in good condition?

I absolutely disagree, that long hair is easier for kids to manage.
My child (15) had long hair for years, and spent bloody hours washing, drying and detangling it. He went through cans of hairspray, and packs of hairgrips and elastic ties, getting it to stay up in a bun, for school.
A month ago, he had it cut short, and has since reset his alarm, to get an extra 30 minutes in bed.
Oh, and I no longer have to cut tangled hairs from the (crappy) cordless hoover, and pick matted hair out of his hairbrush!

Dear lord, people post threads about all sorts of things on here, some very exciting and some more mundane. It really doesn't matter that much

A few people have said the trend started about 2000 so that makes sense

Awwww hun trying to take the spotlight off you to me....not working unfortunately!!!
Thanks for a good laugh on your ridiculous mumsnet tonight. Kept me entertained. Now for tomorrow...'why do girls wear skirts' give your head a wobble hun

she gets even angrier in another couple of posts!

Yeah I remember thinking everyone who had short hair (or like the style of Diana) was "old" 😂🙈

I’d say it could be cost of hairdressers nowadays? People aren’t willing to have their parents cut their hair!!!

I work in a school and there’s plenty of bob’s and short hair still.

This! DD is 12 and has short hair but has been pretty relentlessly bullied for it at school, including being shouted at when she goes into the girls' toilets (btw, she doesn't look at all like a boy, she just has short hair!). Even the kids who aren't actively hostile can't get their heads around the concept of a girl with short hair (and, even worse, trousers ) and keep on and on about whether she identifies as a boy now that she has short hair, whether she has always been a girl or was born a boy, why she still has a girl's name when she has short hair, etc, etc. It's as if they genuinely can't wrap their heads around the idea of a girl (who still identifies as a girl) not having long hair and a skirt.

It's really awful and regressive, and it's only because DD has always just quietly gone her own, non-conforming way in life that she's able to withstand all the nonsense. But she's been quite miserable about being singles out like this, and she and I did have several heart-to-heart conversations about whether it would be better to keep being bullied or to have a longer hairstyle that she doesn't want .

Someone with a pixie cut was crowned Miss France last year! I don’t think she looks dated at all.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C07_mVcOVjU/?igsh=MWhrM2R0Mzg5a3R2OA==

I totally agree. It's something I've said a few times to DD (21) - "in my day we had HAIRSTYLES" (boomed). At least DD sometimes has a fringe and the occasional layer

I last had short hair ten years ago, and before that back in 2003, and grew it just long enough to put up when I got married.

One thing is I always get fed up of it after a while and it takes years to grow out, with lots of complete pain in the arse sticky out stages in between.

Perhaps girls just want to avoid the hassle. Plus hairdressers are not cheap and you need to go a lot more often with shorter hair.

Fuck hairstyles.

she looks amazing

I don't like myself with short hair, despite my relatives saying I look better with shorter hair. I just prefer having longer hair. When people say some celebrity look better with short hair than longer, I just don't see that. Sorry, but longer hair>shorter hair. Also, shorter hair is dated fashion, I only see older woman with shorter cuts. You do you, tho.

Such an unnecessary comment. What’s your problem with OP? It’s a light hearted thread, not sure what you’re getting so worked up about.

2000 is the time I started noticing this. I remember discussing it on another forum not long after that. A woman with three teenage daughters enlightened me about straighteners, which were fairly new then.

Of course, black girls and women with naturally frizzy hair have quite different issues around hair.

It's an ridiculous question

Exactly.

Not all the girls have long hair. What on earth are you talking about?
What an utterly unreasonable generalisation.

@Pirating55
In your opinion.

If you feel it a ridiculous question then perhaps don’t open the thread or keep responding.

My life changed when I got GHDs. Probably about 2003. So easy to have shiny straight hair. Amazing.

My hairdresser reckons short hair is going to be back in soon. We shall see! I do think less young girls have short hair now for sure. I'm not sure why this observation is making some posters so angry. It's not a judgement is it? There's nothing wrong with it.

I think it’s a perfectly fine question.
One could ask why so many young women are obsessed with their appearance to the extent that they’re having Botox and fillers in their early 20s. That there‘s a very unhealthy obsession with looking perfect, that Insta and Facebook are just full of pouting gurning young girls who need likes on SM to feel self validated. And the obsession with being girly and feminine, always on show is so sad and stressful. It seems that ‘beautiful’ and ‘gorgeous’ are the only acceptable compliments you can make now.