Dudes, lots of talk on the blogosphere about Sarah Palin’s hair at the RNC convention. The half-updo. The highlights. The shine.
I wonder — what does hair have to do with your job? Do you feel like you have to wear your hair a certain way to be successful at the office? Think about the most successful woman you know. How does she wear her hair?
I’ve got five bucks that says Sarah Palin crops her hair if she becomes VP.
No bet. Of course she’ll crop her hair. Remember how Hillary’s hair used to look?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v443/SweetDreeamz/h_clinton_lge.jpg
Funny you should mention hair.
I keep my hair in a tight ponytail at work for a couple reasons.
First, to keep it out of my way. It has a tendency to be all over the place if unrestrained.
Second, I don’t know if the corporate environment I support would be ok with my mid-back length, artificially ruby-red hair being, well, all over the place and unrestrained. (unrestrained being used in more than one sense here, really)
Long story short, yeah, i keep my hair very different at work for the sake of productivity and professionalism.
So, I was working on my computer and missed the big debutante ball…or convention speech by Sarah Palin. Everyone in my heavily Republican leaning work place was discussing how impressive she was. Well, that and her hair. The concensus at lunch was that she was shooting for a middle-aged demographic that fondly remembers the Van Halen video, hot for teacher. Will blog on this later…
Oh, wow, man, I said
Wait a second, man
What do you think the teacher’s gonna look like this year? (lyric by Van Halen)
I am AMAZED at the big deal the media is making about Sarah Palin’s hairdo! I thought she looked fabulous at the RNC last night, but more importantly, I listened to her speech and she makes an excellent choice for VP - half updo and all
why doesn’t anyone talk about mccain’s hair? what about obama? can you even picture bill clinton’s hair? i can’t.
our society keeps women one-dimensional. alaska magazine put her on the cover and labeled her the country’s “hottest governor.” she should be known for very little else but her outward appearance.
Maybe your hair style (height) is correlated with how high you climb in your career…the bigger the hair, the bigger the career..:)
I think I am in trouble!
I love your stuff, but on this we disagree. I’ve got $5 on my monitor that says you’re wrong!
http://jobhacking.typepad.com/job_hacking/2008/09/oh-palease.html
Really? All I heard were platitudes, childish insults and empty rhetoric. Ohh and that gem about how community organizing doesn’t involve any responsibility. That one was great. She demonstrated a spectacular ignorance that only her party could.
i’ve gotta take that bet, too. no way she cuts her hair if she becomes vp!
OK, anyone besides me see the freakish resembalance between Tina Fey and Sarah Palin??? Tell me this won’t be a great season for SNL!!!
Ok, I didn’t read any of the comments, but I know someone who has had a number of VP of HR positions. She said that one day she decided to dye her hair blonde, and her career took off. She was convinced that it wasn’t a coincidence. As much it sucks, getting elected is often about doing the little things that people say that they don’t care about, but really do. So is getting hired.
I just hope we never find out if she would have cut her hair or not when becoming VP.
And for all of you that ponder why women say there is a glass ceiling and men just don’t get it or think there isn;t one…duh. women have to watch every thing that they wear, the amount and type of makeup, flats or heels, skirts or slacks, up-do or down-do, jewelry..the list is endless. men are firm, women are bitches. men have goals, women are climbers or slept their way to their promotion. men work hard, women are negligent mothers. get over your fricking selves. you all just want to bonk her.
at least she knows how to shoot a rifle–and hit what she is shooting at! none of the pants-wearing crowd can say that! and she spoke better than any of them–including the alleged gifted preacherish Obaminator.
Sod off!
@leftbrain Oh man, that HRC picture brings back memories.
@sherry I think ruby red hair is awesome but at work? Wow, that’s ballsy.
@michael Oh no, we don’t do Van Halen on PRHR.
@Heather We are 50% aligned. We agree on the hair; not on the candidate.
@ita maybe she has nothing else to offer but her appearance? That’s not sexist — it’s realistic, yo.
@cathy I think it’s the further south you drive in America, the higher the hair.
@Dave & Ita — you’re on!
@bryan Jesus was a community organizer. I guess that doesn’t mean much since Jesus is a long-haired hippie.
@hrUnderling I like Tina Fey too much.
@Willy I agree on being blonde. It opens doors.
@Anne Amen
@Still Contemplating Wow. Just wow.
Wow: the post that wasn’t at all about what I thought it would be about
One of my FAVORITE parts of being unemployed, er, self-employed is that I currently wear my hair LONG and CURLY and WILD. Unprofessional as hell, and I love it.
And God, I hate that how a woman wears her hair even matters.
I couldn’t care less about her hair, maybe it’s just because I don’t like her very much…
Whoever had posted about being blonde helping, I think they’re right:
http://www.belinda.ca/
When she was blonde she was CEO of Magna international, she was a well respected MP in canadian parliament and part of the Queen’s privy council. When she became a brunette and stopped dating pro hockey players her government jobs went away and all she had left was the multi-gazillion dollar Magna internaional job.
I don’t know why…but the pseudo naked picture really freaks me out. Think she will replicate it for her official 1st VP picture?
Pathetic… Forget her experience with ACTUAL reform, what about her hair? Reminds me of when Barack wore jeans and MSNBC nearly lost their mind “OMG, he is like us”, no, he isn’t he just fakes it really well. Out of touch? Ya, especially when he criticizes Palin’s ability to be a mother and VP. We can’t all hire expensive nannies Barack, we actually have to earn a living and can’t afford to spend money “willy-nilly”…
@almost Actually, I think it’s kind of fun to talk about her hair — because talking about her politics just makes me sick.
@Sickboy Hmmmmm… not sure if that’s a pro-blonde or anti-blonde argument.
@Breanne I think it’s reminiscent of 80s softcore. Weird.
@clancop Barack never criticized Palin and told the media to back off in the clearest terms. There are people out there who are looking at her mothering skills. Go take a look at http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/
Clearly good hair is a sign of intelligence. Duh.
Hey, Still Contemplating: Please tell me without making jokes or wisecracks how being able to shoot a gun and hit your target advances one’s ability to serve as VP. I know lots of men (here in Texas) that can shoot someone in the ear from 200 yards — and brag about it. Great. Now tell me how they have improved their ability to work out our nation’s problems. LibsinAustin
@mridenhour
Shame on you — as a Texan, you should already know that Dick Cheney — while in Texas — personally made shooting lawyers synonymous with the Vice Presidency.
All jokes aside, John McCain is trying to appeal to moderates and “lite” liberals (see the gratuitous use of former Democrat-current Independent Joe Lieberman at the RNC). Because McCain is something of a wild card, the Right Wing doesn’t trust him, and Palin has been brought in as ballast.
Palin is almost a caricature of Conservative Republicanism: NRA card carrying member with guns, large family, intelligent design supporter, anti-choice, anti-sustainability, anti-environmentalism, anti-science, anti-climate change, all for cleaning up politics and political corruption unless one’s sister’s ex-husband happens to work for the state, wants to drill ANWR, doesn’t believe in endangered species, and has that horrible pageant big hair thing most often seen at the Church of Christ going on.
I WAS going to vote for McCain, as I thought he could be trusted to run a less polarized, more cooperative White House, but I absolutely MUST VOTE AGAINST Sarah Palin.
I am still amazed that the Republicans were able to produce a candidate that makes Barrack Obama look experienced.
This is the first web site on which I have seen a discussion of Sarah Palin’s hair. I’ve heard a lot of people say (online and in person) that they like her and some people say that they don’t. Until now not a single one of them has mentioned her hair.
OTOH, I’m certain that being physically attractive helps her career immensely. Appearing to be both pleasant and professional helps even more.
@Jay Well I’m glad we are your first entryway into this discussion!