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Class photo time again: Trump with the spring class of White House interns:
That’s nearly 100 people; I think I found four who are not white.
Also, how weird is it that all the women have the Trump-women look? The long hair worn down over the shoulders in front in the manner of Princess Ivanka – every single female person in the photo is wearing her hair that way. As a female person who had long hair in her youth I can tell you that’s not a natural or default way to wear long hair; the natural thing is to pull it all back out of the way and just leave it there. It’s weird to drape some of it over your front as if it were fabric. But then long hair gets to be a nuisance in the end, just another way “feminine” presentation is designed to hobble women via inconvenience.
Anyway. Classy diversity there, Trumpies.
Looked at another way, how many young smart POCs would want this gig?
Definitely an unprofessional way to wear long hair. And I don’t think I have *ever* seen a group of women all wearing the same hairstyle*, except for some kind of theatrical performance.
(I have long hair, largely because I find it the simplest hairstyle to maintain. But I almost always wear it tied back.)
* Though on closer inspection, it looks like two of the women a few rows back on the right have some of their hair pulled back
As a male person with more-than-shoulder-length hair, who just happened to get out of bed (just after noon, so sue me), I can tell you that *one* scenario in which the over-the-shoulder look is ‘natural’ is when you just roll out of bed.
Make of that what you will.
I must admit, as someone with long hair, I do that occasionally – if I’ve spilled something on my shirt, and can’t get somewhere to change shirts. Maybe they are all sloppy? ;-)
The acceptability of long hair hanging down on an adult woman is relatively recent. Young girls might wear their hair down (think of Tenniel’s illustrations of Alice) but they looked forward to the day when they could wear their hair up and their hemlines down. Unless they were running away from a burning building at night, women did not appear in public with their hair hanging down.
During WWII there was a problem with women wearing long hair (in the manner of Veronica Lake’s “peekaboo” style) in factories. They kept getting their hair caught in the machinery. The woman in the famous “We Can Do It” image has her hair neatly covered.
I don’t care about other people’s style choices, but I am annoyed when women of color are told that their braided styles are not “professional” when white women walk around like Mary Magdalene.
Julia F, I’m with you. I’ve been criticized for keeping my hair long (not feminist enough? I suppose) but I find short hair on me to be impossible to manage, while long hair just needs a good brushing out, so I made my choice. I don’t criticize how other women wear their hair, and I think “professional” can be managed more by an attitude and a level of behavior than by how you wear your hair. I think Donald Trump dresses in a way that is called “professional” for instance (suit and tie) but he still manages to neither look nor act professional.
Telling a grown woman how to wear her hair is just…unacceptable. (Personally, telling a child how to wear their hair unless you’re the one who has to comb the tangles out is out of bounds, too).
Oh I know, believe me. I fought that battle as a teenager – I was there for the transition from the uptight flips of the JFK era to the Joan Baez look. I much preferred the latter, although I also rebelled against the local version (at my tiny all-girls’ school) by getting bangs in place of the parted-in-the-middle style.
But the whole point was that it was free, unstyled, the opposite of artificial, all that. It wasn’t about artfully arranging a hank over each breast the way Princess Ivanka does.
Come to think of it, Downton Abbey did some nice playing with the long hair-short hair shift, when Mary gets a jazz age bob and causes gasps in the drawing room when she debuts it.
Isn’t this a re-issue of last year’s picture? If not, the two photo’s would make an excellent ‘spot-the-difference’ competition.
Oops, I forgot the link. No, it’s dated today:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/photos-of-the-week-033018/
Link added.
I probably should clarify that my take on “unprofessional” vs “professional” is probably not what people are assuming. Many people would probably have categorized my work attire as insufficiently professional, since I never wore dresses, never wore makeup, and never wore high heels. So I retract the “unprofessional” accusation.
(Also, maybe a Canada vs US thing, but here I see a lot of black women wearing braided styles in professional settings – I certainly would not consider that to be an issue, as long as hair is prevented from falling into places where it doesn’t belong, I’m all for people having whatever length, colour, or style they think suits them best.)
Mormon polygamists. All those weird matching pompadours.
I wonder how much effort it took to keep his tiny hands under control and to himself.
” I think Donald Trump dresses in a way that is called “professional” for instance (suit and tie) but he still manages to neither look nor act professional.”
Guess that kinda blows the whole “the clothes make the man” thing. Were it true, I would have been forced to the conclusion that Mr. Trump had spent the entirety of his existence to this point dressed as an anal sphincter.
Does the orange guy in the middle count?
Sixth from left top row (maybe). Third from left and fifth from right second to top row. Far left front and second from front row. That’s only five, so to get six it must include the orange one. I’m sure he just has a nasty disease, although it could be an extreme form of body modification I guess.