You pay what for a haircut?

 

 

From the website guff.com, the authors have set up a wonderful selection of images that portray how men and women are set apart from each other through their normal rituals.  But the authors' arguments can sometimes come off as being more offensive to the female rather than the male because of what the images are saying.  Some of the pictures refer to the differences of how men make dinner compared to how women make dinner or what's on the mind of male--sex--versus the mind of a female--need for commitment--or even the difference of how men and women view chivalry.  But the picture that seems most fitting to our generation, is the image that basically shows the difference between a man's haircut versus a woman's haircut.

 

 In the above picture, the argument of a man's haircut and a woman's haircut is the target for conversation.  In the picture, the man is seen, before his haircut, as having a full head of hair and then fifteen dollars later comes out looking all cleaned saved and having only a fourth of the hair he had before his haircut.  On the other hand, the woman pays $275 for a haircut that seems as if didn't change her previous hair whatsoever.  So you may be asking, "What haircut?"  To a woman, $275 may seem like a lot of money, but is definitely worth it when she gets noticed by the opposite sex and feels good about herself.  For a guy, a haircut is a haircut; fifteen dollars or less is perfect and doesn't hurt the bank.  (Which is probably why I have been getting the same type of haircut for the past nine years.)  Instead of spending almost $300 to feel good about ourselves, a fifteen dollar haircut to feel good about himself seems like a better idea.  He may feel good about himself, but does he look good?

 

Although this pictures argues that men will spend less to see a bigger difference in their hair style versus women who pay more to not see a difference at all, this picture also sets up the argument about who gets more than a haircut when they go get a haircut.  For example, my mom will have a haircut appointment at 9:00am and won't come home until 12:00pm.  Within those three hours, she gets her hair colored, trimmed, cut, shampooed, curled, straightened, and gets hot tea on the side.  Now when I or my father receive a haircut, we set up an appointment at 9:00am and we are home by 9:30am.  We don't have our hair shampooed, curled, or straightened while we are served hot tea, but instead we get our hair cut and trimmed with maybe the possibility of a shave.  So yes, in essence, the female haircut should be more expensive than a guys, but there should be a physical difference that us guys should be able to notice without being questioned by the female when she says, "Do you like it?" 

 

No matter how you look at it, a haircut is a haircut and a ritual that will always seem to baffle the mines of both men and women.