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Gray hair is trendy if you're 20 and "cute" and purposely dye your hair gray. If you're older, and maybe not-so-cute, and it's going gray naturally, then it's frumpy. It's just like glasses-- if you wear fake ones for "fashion," they're cute. If you wear them because you actually need them, they're unattractive.
I don't want to start anything BUT, I strongly disagree with your viewpoint.
You just judged ME as being frumpy and unattractive.
I'm not mad....just wondering why you are so disparaging
Gray hair is trendy if you're 20 and "cute" and purposely dye your hair gray. If you're older, and maybe not-so-cute, and it's going gray naturally, then it's frumpy. It's just like glasses-- if you wear fake ones for "fashion," they're cute. If you wear them because you actually need them, they're unattractive.
I was going to post exactly this, so thanks for saving me the trouble.
I would edit only to say it's "CONSIDERED frumpy."
I don't want to start anything BUT, I strongly disagree with your viewpoint.
You just judged ME as being frumpy and unattractive.
I'm not mad....just wondering why you are so disparaging
My mom has gotten questions about whether her hair is natural for years. She’s now 76 and never dyed it.
I have to wear glasses and get positive comments about them all the time. It’s just harder since certain styles/prescriptions may make your eyes look bigger or smaller. For me it is the latter, and I have to avoid large frames to keep my eyes from looking tiny.
After News Anchor’s Long Career, She Found Herself Focus of the Story
Lisa LaFlamme was dismissed after a decades-long TV career, not long after she stopped dyeing her hair, setting off debates across Canada about sexism, ageism and going gray.
Her departure set off multifaceted debates across Canada, especially after The Globe and Mail newspaper reported it may have been linked to Ms. LaFlamme’s hair — which she had chosen to let go gray during the pandemic when hair salons and other businesses shut down. The network’s owner, Bell Media, which denied that “age, gender and gray hair” had been factors, named a 39-year-old male correspondent, Omar Sachedina, as her successor. https://jacklimpert.com/2023/02/afte...-of-the-story/
I remember an ABC newscaster from years ago - Kathleen Sullivan. She was young and let her hair go salt and pepper. She received some flak for that. She later claimed she was let go from CBS news for being older. Several newscasters from NY1 filed an age discrimination lawsuit a few years ago. Most of them were women but there may have been one or two guys also claiming they were cast aside for being older.
Her hair, both before and after gray, looks marvelous. She's so pretty. Hard to believe anyone would have a problem with HER gray hair. There's a famous model with gray hair and a similar cut, Nikol Johnson. She's a working, very wealthy, model with gray shoulder length hair. Non-colored hair is so much healthier, so that helps.
If more women would go gray, it would stop being such a marker for an "old lady" image. That's why it's more acceptible on men, IMO - we're so used to seeing them with gray hair, doing the same things that they did before they had gray hair.
Gray hair is trendy if you're 20 and "cute" and purposely dye your hair gray. If you're older, and maybe not-so-cute, and it's going gray naturally, then it's frumpy. It's just like glasses-- if you wear fake ones for "fashion," they're cute. If you wear them because you actually need them, they're unattractive.
Yep. And I'll be donning both soon enough as an over 55er.
Ahh, if we could only be 20 something social media influencers forever.
Lisa looks great by the way. It makes me wonder if there was something more to her firing because, appearance wise, I am not seeing an issue.
Her hair, both before and after gray, looks marvelous. She's so pretty. Hard to believe anyone would have a problem with HER gray hair. There's a famous model with gray hair and a similar cut, Nikol Johnson. She's a working, very wealthy, model with gray shoulder length hair. Non-colored hair is so much healthier, so that helps.
If more women would go gray, it would stop being such a marker for an "old lady" image. That's why it's more acceptible on men, IMO - we're so used to seeing them with gray hair, doing the same things that they did before they had gray hair.
Here is the most recent and inspiring update (from January 2023) on what's been happening with Lisa after she was blind-sided and let go from CTV last summer:
Also one little snippet from the above article that everyone should find heartening, giving the admirable Lisa and her high standards and principles as a great investigative journalist and news anchor recognition of credit where credit is certainly due:
"This April, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television will give LaFlamme its Gordon Sinclair Award for her “exceptional body of work in journalism.” (You have to give the Academy props for this subtle shade cast at CTV, given that Sinclair was a broadcaster whose irascibility and silver comb-over did not stand in the way of success. Like Sinclair, LaFlamme is also an Officer of the Order of Canada.)"
Gray hair is trendy if you're 20 and "cute" and purposely dye your hair gray. If you're older, and maybe not-so-cute, and it's going gray naturally, then it's frumpy. It's just like glasses-- if you wear fake ones for "fashion," they're cute. If you wear them because you actually need them, they're unattractive.
My hair is white and silver, and I look stunning. ;-P
I don't want to start anything BUT, I strongly disagree with your viewpoint.
You just judged ME as being frumpy and unattractive.
I'm not mad....just wondering why you are so disparaging
I did not read that as her own personal opinion, but rather as a statement about how society views gray hair and glasses (both of which describe me, too).
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