Female Student Shaves Head to Fight ‘Gender Norms’ – PJ Media

When a kid goes off to college, you expect him or her to be learning how to handle the reality of adulthood. That's literally the point of college.

But here we have the exploits of feminist activistYvonne Nguyen, who has shaved her head to make ... a STATEMENT.She didn't shave it to support a friend who is fighting cancer, though -- that's always a great move. Nor did she do it because she just likes the way it looks. While it's not my thing, I'm not the one who has to wear it, so more power to her.

Instead, she did it to COMBATSOMETHING OR OTHER:

On Tuesday, the Villanova student published an op-ed in the campus student newspaper, The Villanovan, where she explained that the small and constant comments about how to play the role of my gender were burdensome. ... Throughout my life, I was told how to look, think, feel, act and be a girl in order to fit in.'

Nguyen also asserted that shaving my head enabled me to be reflective of the ways society forces me to conform to labels that I didnt choose. Shaving my head liberated me, as I allowed myself to be faithful to my values and genuine self. She soon added that shaving my head allowed me to be in solidarity with people undergoing cancer treatment and take time to identify the privileges that I take for granted.

I won't pretend that gender norms don't exist, but to treat this as oppression proves that at no point during her education has she studied oppression.

Here's a tip: If you can protest something without ANYramifications, such as imprisonment or threats of government reprisal, you're not oppressed. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, spent plenty of time in jail for his activism.

While gender norms are a thing, they evolve from the culture -- and it's not as if the choices of free women had no role in creating those. And gender norms are not necessarily good or bad.

Most importantly, long or shaved, it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, because no one in the U.S.cares what a young adult does to her hair. "Society" is not trying to define your hair. Society's only interest in your hair is either due to professionalism, or occasionally, public hygiene.

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Female Student Shaves Head to Fight 'Gender Norms' - PJ Media