The popolitics of hair dye

“There a are two types of cosmetics. You can reme remember it like diabetes: type one is naturally occurring (or rather, it appears to be), an and type 2 is clearly something you have don done to yourself. Concealer is type one, and lipstick is generally type two. But with hair dye, whether it’s type one or two of often seems to depend on gender. For wom women, hair dye is culturally accepted as an overt cosmetic choice, but for men, it suggests concealment. Lots of men don don’t like going grey; they could easily cha change it, yet to do so is associated with sham shame. On the surface, this seems unfair. U Underlying it, though, is the deeper un unfairness that old looking men are allow allowed to be newsreaders and old looking w women aren’t.”