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Originally Posted by proudfather
Study the issue of short hair in the old testament and you will find that on a woman, it was considered shameful.
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I did a study and looked up every time the word 'hair' was used in the Bible, along with 'shorn', 'shaven', and every other variation of the word that would have anything to do with a woman cutting her hair.... and I didn't find that at all.
Completely shaving her head was shameful. As it would be today. Baldness is not a look women try to achieve (with very rare exceptions). That's why, if a woman gets cancer and loses her hair, she'll wear a cap, a scarf, a hat or a wig. Women do not
at all like to be without hair. Men, on the other hand, can lose their hair from cancer, and won't bother wearing scarfs and hats. It's not so odd for a man to be without hair.
Right now, in 2010, if you see a woman who is completely bald, you assume she's had cancer. If you see a man who is completely bald, you don't even think about it. "Hair" is a woman thing, it
is a woman's pride and joy, her beauty. So things haven't changed that much from the Old Testament times, concerning how women feel about their hair.
Shaving a woman bald does not even compare to a woman who trims and styles her hair nicely. That's not something the Bible condemns, not once as far as I could find.
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