The Bald Lady

I was flipping through the TV channels when a talk show on NBN captured my attention. The show was "Sejal" hosted by Rabia Zayyat whose guest was a Lebanese photographer called Carine something. Carine was not there to talk about her career and photography, but rather to talk about her hair or the non existence of it to be more specific. What I saw was shocking, not because it's the first time I see a "bald woman", (I've seen Demi Moore before :P) but because it was uncommon to see an "Arab" bald woman.

Carine isn't bald because she suffers from a certain disease that caused her hair loss or something, not because she had to shave her head (as Moore did) either. She chose "for a change" to get rid of her hair and become completely bald.

I didn't see the whole interview, but I want to shed light on a few points.

The girl was arguing that shaving her hair is something very personal, and people have nothing to do with it. There's nothing wrong with changing "the look" as long as we do not change from inside. Carine with or without hair is still the same person, nothing had changed. She insisted that people should not judge others by their looks. Judging a book from its cover is very wrong. Why would people care about her hair? Is it the hair that makes one's personality? Why do people ignore everything she has and concentrate on her baldness?

According to her, shaving her head was not necessarily to draw attention to herself; it was to change the look, no more no less. Besides, she is not intending to change that look anytime soon, despite all the comments, whispers, looks and stares she's getting. Some people are even wondering about her gender, suspecting that she suffers from a certain sexual disorder.

To be honest, I liked the girl's confidence and high self esteem. She was obviously an educated sociable lady, who doesn't seem to have any kind of psychological troubles.

But why did she do that and decided to abandon her femininity? (Knowing that she insisted that the hair is not an indicator of femininity, she can still be feminine without it).

"just because" or "for a change" are definitely not convincing answers, are they?

Is it the dominance of the male side of her? Or was it the rebellious side? Or maybe the insanity of artists, they do crazy things you know.

Is it to draw attention (khalef to3raf, as we say in Arabic)? See, she became famous, hadn't she shaved her head she would never appear on TV, and I will not post about her in my blog :D

A compensation of some deficiency maybe? Is it lack of confidence or excessive confidence? I mean what if the girl is so full of herself that she thinks that she doesn't need hair, LOL. That sounds odd.

Whatever the reason is, I still think that she looks DISGUSTING.

fi3lan, akher zaman. Girls are shaving their heads while boys are making ponytales

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