What Makes Us Beautiful
(Original here. ) I was driving home the other day from taking the Handy Man to work, listening to the radio. The DJ's said they were going to do 'girl talk', which I'm guessing is a regular feature. They then went on to talk about an article some idiot guy wrote about how women should never cut their hair short, because women with short hair are ugly. I waited for the DJ's (one man, one woman) to rebuff this guy's opinion. Imagine my shock when they began agreeing with him, even naming some celebrities who recently cut their hair. "So-and-so cut hers and she looks like a man." "Oh, and this person cut hers, it's awful!" I sat in stunned silence. They weren't actually doing this, were they? And, then, it got worse. "We'd like you to call in and tell us, 'what makes a woman ugly'." This is not happening. I am not listening to two adults, one of them a woman herself, asking people to call in and tr...