Like most folks with long hair, there is a point each morning, after I've put on my shirt but before I've pulled my hair out of the back of the neck hole, that I get to assess how I'd look if I cut it short. I have to admit that these days the convenience of short hair sounds really appealing to me. But the cultural capital I gain by having long hair would be hard to give up. Because I am married, because I don't wear makeup, because of the way I dress here, and because I have long hair, certain assumptions are made about me that work in my favor. Even though many Armenian women have short hair, put on makeup, and even wear tight or revealing clothing without serious consequences, those same actions performed by me, a foreigner, would result in a whole hose of negative assumptions about my be local people. So I think that I'll keep my long hair for now- it's finally starting to pull its weight in our relationship.
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