In sci-fi films, bald women have conveyed a number of things in addition to desexualization, including masculinity, sexual ambiguity, dehumanization, youthfulness, and innocence. And paradoxically, bald women have also been used to portray an enhanced sense of sexuality and control.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
I've seen the future and the future is bald
4 comments:
So, one of my uncles - who was pretty much bald - would say: "The less hair above, the more below". His wife seemed happy. ;-)
I don't find female baldness at all off-putting. I don't have any particular "thing" for it, but I don't understand why it's considered so aberrant.
I was actually considering shaving my head for charity, much like Sars at "Tomato Nation" did, but my hubby ix-nay'd it. I have short hair anyway, so I didn't think it would be that big of a deal, but he didn't go for the idea much. :)
Who can forget Persis Khambattain Star Trek The Motion Picture?
Oddly enough, I didn't know she died in 1998 :(.