Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Show your colors!

As I was browsing on line for whatever reason, I came across this photo on a site, ridiculed by the blog author for being silly and inappropriate.
Silly and inappropriate where? when? and to who?

It's amazing to me that in 2012 we are still so stereotypical and critical of everything.

The blogger suggested that the person wearing this rainbow hair would be unable to get a job if they were to go for an interview. What if the person is self - employed? What if the female is a talented artist and her hair is her trademark? What if she was a model spruced up for some colorful photo shoot?
There are so many possible reasons. BUT would it be so awful to go to the bank and see the teller with these colorful curls? Does it mean the service at her counter would be any worse than than that of the teller with all black or brown hair pulled into a ponytail?

What are we so afraid of when we see bright hair or tattoos or piercings or dreadlocks. Do we still believe those things come with the attached stigmas of prostitutes, drug dealers,satanist and ganja smokers? Are the people with the above mentioned things "bad"? and the people without them "good" and upstanding and trustworthy?

I WILL not pretend that I do not know how how we dress (and style our hair) is a reflection of who we are on the inside. But having multiple colors in your hair neither makes you a clown, a prostitute, or a number at the unemployment office. Yet society would have us believe no good can come from a person with a head of hair like this.

Some of you will be mad at this post, that is your choice just as it is a woman's choice to dye her hair whatever color she feels. Bright color hair may not be your thing and no one will judge you for that. So why judge someone who steps outside the box?

In keeping with the times - I say, You Only Live Once. If you want to do something that doesn't put your health and life or the health and lives of others at risk - Go For It.
Show Your Colors Today!

Bisous!!xoxo

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