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Maybe dislike is partly because pigtails distract from hair color, face, and other things guys care about. And when men like pigtails, it seems associated with a youth fetish, which probably isn't going to make women feel great.
Hmm the first link seems pretty evenly divided on opinions, and the second I only read down a bit but right from the beginning there were posts about how men find the style sexy.
Why is this bothering you so much? Are people not allowed to like things you don't? You seem really really vested in convincing women that people, in particular men, hate pigtails. Can you just not look at women in pigtails? Wouldn't that help?
After looking at this thread, I put my 61 year old hair in low pigtails. It's adorable and i may well wear it like this out in public!
I'll bet you look super cute!
I put my hair in rope braid pigtails the other night and my husband kept telling me how cute they looked. He also likes the look of a single high pony.
Yes, if she's young and has a cute face - but it's still totally unprofessional to have overt pigtails like that and it will run off some men too. A woman in her thirties or older likely will look deranged if she styles her hair that way.
I don't understand why women want to wear pigtails. If the goal is minimal effort, a ponytail would be easier. Nostalgia for childhood shouldn't mean looking like a child.
I'd be just as critical toward a man who wanted to, I don't know, wear a mullet and insist that looks good. (Personally, I think it looks a little better than standard pigtails from the front.) This a fashion forum - it will attract people with opinions, usually responding to subjects started by others.
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Yes, if she's young and has a cute face - but it's still totally unprofessional to have overt pigtails like that and it will run off some men too. A woman in her thirties or older likely will look deranged if she styles her hair that way.
The singer Fairouz was in her 30s in that picture. Granted, she looked younger than her age for a long while. That might have just been a style she wore for a particular movie for all I know. I thought I had see other photos of her with her hair like that, but a lazy search hasn't turned any up.
I don't normally post on this forum, true. I just saw the question on the side of my screen and thought I would chime in.
[snip] Yes, if she's young and has a cute face - but it's still totally unprofessional to have overt pigtails like that and it will run off some men too. A woman in her thirties or older likely will look deranged if she styles her hair that way.
I don't understand why women want to wear pigtails. If the goal is minimal effort, a ponytail would be easier. Nostalgia for childhood shouldn't mean looking like a child.
I'd be just as critical toward a man who wanted to, I don't know, wear a mullet and insist that looks good. (Personally, I think it looks a little better than standard pigtails from the front.) This a fashion forum - it will attract people with opinions, usually responding to subjects started by others.
^ Well, yes, exactly so, and I think a lot of us, or probably all of us, have accepted that some people really don't like this style - and we've said so - ...but from the opposite angle...I'm hearing, "No way, NOBODY likes them" with the "proof" being links to posts that include posts either from men who like them or from women who say men like them.
So I'm left with...
It's all good...I just posted what I did because it does continue surprise me (it shouldn't, by now) how some people freak the heck out when an "older" woman (in this case, older than 17) refuses to "look old." It shouldn't be THAT big a deal. It really shouldn't. Some men and women don't like this style and obviously, some do so the continued foot-stamping and insistence that nobody could possibly like it, it looks ridiculous, juvenile, you can't wear it in a work setting (duh, not sure any of us who ever wear this style said we do) and so on just starts to raise questions after a while. At least IMO. You really have to wonder what's motivating a person to be THAT dead set against an older woman refusing to be put in her place fashion-wise. It boggles the mind.
And no, I don't care if some guy wears a mullet and thinks it looks great, LOL. If he feels great and he loves it...well, rock it.
I didn't say nobody likes pigtails and twin buns - and I'm ignoring false claims from now on.
I suppose those styles irk me because they go against key values:
1) trying to look attractive (without flaunting).
2) wisdom
Those two hair styles to me often seem like flaunting stupidity. It's rare to style hair that way and get more positive than negative reactions (making it a stupid choice). I suppose women might underestimate the negative because most adults are hesitant to directly criticize women and men and women often are too eager to blow smoke up their....
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I didn't say nobody likes pigtails and twin buns - and I'm ignoring false claims from now on.
I suppose those styles irk me because they go against key values:
1) trying to look attractive (without flaunting).
2) wisdom
Those two hair styles to me often seem like flaunting stupidity. It's rare to style hair that way and get more positive than negative reactions (making it a stupid choice). I suppose women might underestimate the negative because most adults are hesitant to directly criticize women and men and women often are too eager to blow smoke up their....
Trying to look attractive is a key value?? For me compassion, love, loyalty, appreciation are things that come to my mind as key values but hey if trying to look attractive is a key value to you more power to you.
Personally I think life is too short and people need to have fun and not worry about trying to conform to certain people's standards. While I agree that in the work place it may require one to adhere to certain standards....when one is not working I think they should be free to wear their hair any way they want. I mean Sheesh, it is just hair!
That's what I was thinking. Key value? Oh my gosh.
One of my key values, and one I appreciate in another, is seeing a person as an individual and allowing him/her his/her own physical freedom of expression (i.e. dress; hair) provided the person is not harming anyone.
So until braids become poisonous I'm thinking this pretty much passes the test.
What I don't consider a key value - or at least a positive key value - is increasingly picking on (upping the ante, nasty/insulting words-wise) someone's looks in order to force the person to look the way I want him/her to look. How on earth could that ever, every be a positive value? In anybody?
This is just me - if it's a friends choice between "Hi! I like to snark insultingly at people until they change their physical looks to satisfy me" and "Hi! I like pigtails," I'm probably choosing the pigtails.
p.s. Moving to more general commentary, people keep saying they don't see grown women in pigtails. I do, around here. Even 50-somethings. They're usually very loose, per the current "grownup" version of pigtails/braids. They might be two, or a single braid - often to one side, or accent braids, often pinned back. Could this partially be regional?
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...but from the opposite angle...I'm hearing, "No way, NOBODY likes them" with the "proof" being links to posts that include posts either from men who like them or from women who say men like them. 
