Women Cutting Their Hair, Please Help.

[tbpew]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

No, it was the beard.

Both men and women have hair that grows and grows*, but only men have beards.

(*although if left completely to nature, a woman's hair will generally get much longer and be fuller than most men's)

So Quiet...
you do not see LONG hair as something that pertains to a woman?

[deltaguitar]

Originally Posted by staysharp

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[deltaguitar]

Originally Posted by tbpew

delta,
do you think LONG would be a good condition for something that was to be a covering?
Do you think God has purposed for women to have long hair?

Please know that I understand what LONG means will be decided by each woman who is seeking to follow where God's spirit leads...but is LONG hair something that pertains to the woman?

No. Young sexy beautiful women will almost always have long hair. It is something that most women think is beautiful. Then as women get older and need less attention for their beauty they usually don't care for long hair as much.

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by tbpew

So Quiet...
you do not see LONG hair as something that pertains to a woman?

Longer, yes. I mentioned the hippie days... if a man did have waist-length hair, the comment was usually something like - "Wow, his hair looks like a woman's."

If both men and women let their hair grow as long as it could get, most women would have much longer and thicker hair. Most men would have shoulder-length, and it would be rather thin. Of course, there are exceptions, but it's the general rule.

Men tend to go bald, women usually don't. My grandparents - grandfather is almost completely bald, grandmother still has a thick head of hair.

I think "hair" in general is a woman thing. If a man gets cancer, has to take chemo, and loses his hair, it's not that noticeable, he won't get odd stares in public. If a woman does, everyone feels so badly for her, and she will get stares in public. Women cancer patients tend to wear wigs or scarves. Men don't.

Beautiful, glorious hair is a woman thing. Fairly long is usually a part of that.

[DaniB]

Observation: I don't see anything about women never cutting their hair until the 1920s....I see though that as far as hair styles/trends go the 20s brought in a very SHORT hair style.

I'd like to see the evidence women never cut their hair until recently
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I re-read my post and realized I didn't highlight the fact I was referring to WESTERN culture, specifically British/European/American. Also I didn't say that women NEVER cut their hair, but simply that long/uncut hair and hats were the norm and reflected society's understanding of submission in women. If you read the Little House books and other Victorian/Pioneer era stuff, you will see that women wore bangs and may have trimmed their hair as well. Also understand that a sweeping religious revival (the Second Great Awakening) had shaped British and American cultural mores by that time. The result was simple dress codes and the expectation of modesty across the board. For men AND women. After World War I, that was changing. Hence short hair on "flapper" women.

I Cor 11 does not say "Thou shalt not cut thy hair." It explains the proper order. God, Christ, man, woman; and a guideline on how that attitude was to be expressed. Scripture was never meant to oppress but to liberate. Remember, we are under grace, not the law. Jesus fulfilled the law.