Is hair-coloring really the next big feminist issue?

Question

I was at the doctor's yesterday and read an interesting article in a year-old Time magazine. It claimed that the next big issue for feminism is hair coloring. It claimed that the feminist movement is at a loss as to whether to look young or look authentic. It cited examples from both sides of the fence. It even claimed that the hair color issue is the next "Mommy Wars." What do you think? Is this a big issue for feminists? Do you (or would you) color your hair?

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1658058,00.html

(For the record, I will proudly color my hair and be a gorgeous blonde until the day I die! Get it, dye, die, lol!)

Answer 1

I think a woman (or a sissy) should always look her best so I say dye away and the feminists oughta know that being fem is a womans power.

Megan Is a Goddess and I worship the ground she walks on.

Answer 2

It's shorthand for the larger issue of women aging gracefully, instead of resorting to outlandish amounts of cosmetics to look youthful.

Answer 3

I think hair coloring is the next revolution for men; go metrosexuals ... groom!!!

Answer 4

hair dye companies love this. no one is fooled by hair dye, and the money women spend on this unnecessary endeavor is in the millions.

no one needs to color anything, or get eye tucks, or the joan rivers look.

Answer 5

Still, it starts looking a bit silly when an obviously older person is using hair color. I remember all the specualtion over former president Ronald Reagan's hair color. He still had brown hair when he was elected president at the age of 69 and he continued to have it throughout his presidency. Was he that way naturally or did he help it along? Since he was in his seventies during his presidency, many people felt that he did indeed help it along.

Answer 6

Wow feminists are still fighting the good fight huh?

Yep, hair dye. It's a big deal.

Answer 7

Well, I'm not a feminist by any stretch of the imagination, but I hate the idea of potentially carcinogenic chemicals soaking into my body via my head, so I'm currently growing out the nifty white skunk stripe I've begun to get in front ( I'm only 28). Both my parents and my grandmother have the stripe. I kinda like the contrast with my dark brown hair.  I'd rather be authentic than depend on a bottle for my looks.

Answer 8

hair dye rocks it keeps me from me bored with my hair

Answer 9

Well I color my hair.  Im a feminist but I dont really care what other people think, including other feminists.  I like it.  My girlfriend likes it.  Thats all that matters to me.

Answer 10

I am completely for hair dye; I'm 16 and I sometimes dye my hair (usually funky colors, though) and I want to continue to do so for as long as I please.

Answer 11

I, like most human beings, don't care enough to read a year-old TIME article. But if it was the only thing to read, I understand.

Coloring hair is like painting a fence. . . if you don't like it change it. But how about going the whole nine yards, and totally change it, like ripping the fence down and putting up a new one? For example, for the slow ones at home/wasting time at work, shave your head instead and slap some sunblock on. You'll be fine. People will like you better because you'll be "all natural," not a liar (because you would be tricking people into thinking that you are a color when you are not). Shave it off or keep your natural color or go gray. Don't be insecure. If people make fun of a person for not dying her/his hair, the person being made fun of can easily point out some short-coming of the verbal assailants.

Answer 12

As far as this feminist is concerned just about anything related to fashion is a non-issue-hair coloring included. Once again the media has got its pulse on important feminist issues-NOT.

Answer 13

Women's liberation is about freedom of choice and I CHOOSE to cast off my dirty blond coloured roots and be raven black !!

Answer 14

I dye my hair... of course I am a brunett naturally and I die my hair brown so I am not really changing much... (lighter or darker depending on the season). But good greif if thats all they have to BIT** about these days then praise the lord... and get a life.

Answer 15

I never had any strong views on hair colouring until about two years ago, when I looked in the mirror one day and was horrified to see how much white there was in my hair (I've had white hairs since I was 22, but this was getting drastic).

I went out and scoured the shops until I found a dye that approximated to what used to be my natural shade, and was pleased with the results.  My husband, whenever he sees me preening myself in front of the mirror after I've dyed it, invariably calls me 'Carly' (as in Carly Simon "you're so vain").  "I don't DYE it" I explain to him "I just restore the natural colour."  

I absoluely will never stop colouring my hair until I die!

Answer 16

I am a feminist and I darken my hair color a little. It gets too strawberry blond in the summer time for my taste.

I think the Time magazine article was written by someone with waaaaay too much time and dogma on their hands.

Answer 17

It makes you no less of a person to "depend on a bottle" for your looks.

That concept is ludicrous.