Stereotypical Hair

Consider the adjectives that we use to personify hair: good, bad, wild, nice. What kind of hair do you envision when you hear these words? From where do these images originate?
[from Daydreaming on Paper]

Good: straight blonde straight hair, to or just below the shoulders.... bangs, and a headband. pretty polkadot dress with a bow at the waist. think alice in wonderland... now is that a stereotypical western picture of conformity, or what?

Bad: dark hair, long, tangled, greasy, not cut in a long time.... i think this originates from the racist backbone of north american culture... that stupid way of looking at original peoples as somehow lesser... somehow...bad.

Wild: anything out of the ordinary.... anything with lots of ends all over the place.... out of order.... like my dreads. :P non-conformity... un-tamed...

Nice: the opposite of above... anything trendy, coiffed, and befitting to today's woman.... conformity.

funny how words about hair can bring up such... subliminal... undertones. i really don't like it. i don't like things based on prejudice and .... oh, what's that word? oh- stereotypes.

one of my pet peeves is, of course, conformity... which ties in a lot with stereotyping. oh, a christian woman in today's world is supposed to look like she's got it all... she has, after all, the Lord of the Universe living inside her... all's well in the life of a christian woman..... look like the rich women who can take care of herself. God forbid you should have pink hair, piercings, tattoos, or dreads! that person can't be a christian! she doesn't look like one.

well, what should a follwer of Christ look like? should i dress like Jesus dressed ... in robes and long hair? sounds stupid, right? so why should i conform to the world's standards of what a follower of Christ should look like? that's even more stupid.

i'm not going to mousse and gel and blowdry and outline and gloss and shine up every morning for an hour....why waste that time? for me, i could be somewhere i enjoy being: on the computer, doing something productive: writing, sharing, encouraging, ministering in whatever way God leads. i don't have to be streaked and polished to serve God.

i have pink (albeit fading pink) dreads. why do i dress that way? becuase it's who i feel God made me. how should a follower of Christ dress? authentically... suiting the God-given personality He gave them... not comforming out the originality of our Creative God who designed my personality as it pleased Him.

God made me... why should i take an eraser and rub out God's design? - to fit in?

RUBBISH.