http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/to-be-blond-is/ English 310 at Clemson University Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:45:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/to-be-blond-is/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Brian Croxall Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:04:49 +0000 http://briancroxall.net/readwrite/2009/11/to-be-blond-is/#comment-163 This is an interesting observation about dyeing one’s hair color: one that I’ve observed in my own experience. I’m not sure if I’m willing to go all the way to saying that making one’s hair is the key to being able to do whatever one wants. Perhaps we can twist that just a bit and ask what it is in our culture that makes people—even someone like Natasha Trethewey, who isn’t blond—want to have blond hair. Or that she doesn’t feel the same strange disconnect that her father appears to feel when he sees his biracial daughter prancing around with blond hair. This is an interesting observation about dyeing one’s hair color: one that I’ve observed in my own experience. I’m not sure if I’m willing to go all the way to saying that making one’s hair is the key to being able to do whatever one wants. Perhaps we can twist that just a bit and ask what it is in our culture that makes people—even someone like Natasha Trethewey, who isn’t blond—want to have blond hair. Or that she doesn’t feel the same strange disconnect that her father appears to feel when he sees his biracial daughter prancing around with blond hair.

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