What are the cultural and/or scientific explanations for why, in general, women have long hair and men short?

The force of a piece of sharpened metal moving across the hair shafts and striking another piece of sharpened metal has the effect of creating a 'cutting' or 'shearing' effect which is know as a 'haircut' (sorry to use technical jargon).





This 'haircut' can be applied to either gender, according to private selection or the dictates of the wider cultural phenomenon known as 'fashion'.





Cheers :-)What are the cultural and/or scientific explanations for why, in general, women have long hair and men short?
Arbitrary fashion.What are the cultural and/or scientific explanations for why, in general, women have long hair and men short?
I find women have the disadvantage in all cultural expectations


short hair- CHEAP, EASY TO MANAGE!, no tugging and pulling, no dying, easy to do sports, doesnt get in your way


teh clothes we wear are more UNcomfortable (e.g. heels vs. flats)


were expected to stay home and have kids so that if a divorce happens, we cant support ourself or the kids


it goes on and on


the easy, more comfortable, more long-term return items go to the men.


we're stuck with the baggage.
The Bible says it's a shame for a man to have long hair. What attracts normal males and normal females to each other is the fact that they're different from each other.
Because some people like to define sex.


Personally, I don't.


I don't see how ordinary objects used in daily life can justify whether one is male or female.
The main reason men have short hair now is farily recent. Before World War 1 most men had longer hair. It was in the trenches that men would get lice. So the military changed it so that men would have short hair and no beards.





When the movies first came out Hollywood made lots of war movies. In most of the movies the men had to have short hair to reflect the fact they were playing soldiers. With all those handsome actors having short hair and no beards, it became the style to copy. Its still with us today.
Women are traditionally considered the more decorative sex, and long hair which can be styled in many different ways is part of that decorativeness. Also, since the ability to grow long hair is a sign of health (i.e. reproductive capacity), men generally find long hair on women to be very sexually attractive. And finally, long hair can be a total pain to take care of, while short hair enables freedom, so of course a predominantly patriarchal society would prescribe the former to women, and the latter to men.
To give rise to the hair styling industry, methinkest.