Lady Deep Red

So once again, the male is the authority on our lives.

Happy birthday, Léa Roback! (November 3, 1903)

A communist, trade unionist, pacifist, and feminist, Léa Roback was born in Montreal, one of nine children of Polish Jewish immigrants. The only Jewish family in Beauport, the unique circumstances of Roback's upbringing meant that she was a polyglot at a young age: she spoke Yiddish at home, English in school, and French in her community. She also learned German while abroad, during which time she became a communist and joined the Communist Party of Germany. She lived in Germany for a time as political tension mounted and the Nazis gained power, and left in the fall of 1932. Returning to Quebec, she joined the Communist Party of Canada, established a Marxist bookstore, and campaigned for the poor and the rights of women. She also helped to establish a garment workers' union and supported female workers on strike. She remained an activist her entire life, denouncing war and nuclear proliferation and pushing for further progress in women's rights, until her death in 2000.

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“A couple weeks ago, an 11-year-old boy admitted seven counts of rape and sexual assault on boys under 13 after he watched similar explicit images online. Legal officials involved in the case said it was clear that internet porn had sparked the sex attacks.”

“Last November, a boy was convicted of repeatedly raping his younger sister after becoming fascinated with online pornography. The 14-year-old, who was only 12 at the time of the crime, pleaded guilty to six charges of rape in court. His internet browsing history showed he had searched and watched porn relating to incest.”

“In August 2014, a judge condemned the “corrosive” influence of pornography after a boy who visited hardcore pornographic websites abducted and raped a girl in his town that was just 10 years old.”

So it's already been brought up in radblr how the Karen meme has gone too far and demonizes women for asserting themselves and demonizes women for being middle aged, and god forbid a woman is middle aged and asserts herself!

But I was thinking about the stereotypical "Karen" haircut, which is like this:

and it make me think, of course the stereotypical "Karen" haircut is a short and practical haircut, not long beautiful tresses or something that's conventionally attractive and seen as beautiful to men. So the Karen meme not only demonizes women for daring to assert themsevles / be middle aged instead of young and naive, but it's also demonizing women for daring to have short practical haircuts instead of long beautiful tresses that follow typical patriarchal beauty standards.

Like I've seen comments on instagram of girls and women who previously hair long hair getting it cut into a pixie or bob and people, usually boys and men, commenting "Karen haircut lmao" or "future Karen in the making" just on normal and practical looking bobs and pixie cuts, and then this leads to the girls and women I've heard saying they want to get a bob or a pixie cut but "don't want to look like a Karen" so they keep their conventionally attractive long locks.