{"id":4809,"date":"2017-05-26T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2017-05-26T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:07:38","slug":"bad-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4809\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s something I find rather annoying about certain British women, an example<\/a> of which is below:<\/p>\n

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Look at the state of her hair: it looks as though she’s just got out of bed, yet she’s happy to have this picture at the masthead of her opinion pieces in a national newspaper.<\/p>\n

You see this a lot with British women. Watch the evening news and stick around until they interview a council spokeswoman, or a university lecturer, or some other “modern” woman of leftist bent and you’ll see the same thing: hair all over the place.<\/p>\n

They do this deliberately, believing it displays casual indifference to their appearance which implies they instead express themselves with intellect, compassion, and other non-physical traits. Only to me it makes them seem\u00a0slovenly.<\/p>\n

This isn’t about looks – I don’t care whether the women are young or pretty – it is about effort. If I were asked to come on TV, or to provide a photo for a column, I would make damned sure I had shaved that morning and I’d probably be in a suit and tie. Anything else and I’d not be taken seriously, and rightly so.<\/p>\n

British women, alas, have somewhat of a reputation among foreigners. One phrase I hear often is “they don’t know how to take care of themselves”. Is it true? I don’t know. But one thing is for sure: you’d not see a French, Italian, or Russian woman appearing in a national newspaper with hair like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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