Hair, gender, and power

[Shana A]

Hair, gender, and power
Filed by: Alex Blaze
January 17, 2010 4:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/hair_gender_and_power.php

Over a year ago I posted about a boy who wasn't allowed to start public school in Texas because he had long hair. He was Native and it was part of his culture to keep his hair long.

Another school in Texas, this time a suburban school instead of a rural one, has a problem with a boy who wants long hair, this time for apparently no reason other than taste. He's allowed to go to pre-K, but he and his long hair have been separated from the other students in the library with a teaching assistant. Long hair on a boy, the school board claims, is such a distraction that he can only be handled by people with hazmat suits. Talk about gender anxiety.