Your wife is still quite brave to do it even once. And yeah coworkers can be jerks.
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Originally Posted by baldy1138
Persis isn't as recognized as she once was, and that's a shame. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Persis was like the patron saint of acomophilia. She was a sexy bald woman who figured prominently in a major motion picture that came out at the dawn of home video. Since then, videos, both PG and porno, of female head shaving have become widely available online, and lots of celebrities have gone bald at one time or another. Plus, all the material, the photos, articles, etc., that people have gleaned from here and there over the years have spread across the web, sitting in photo galleries. When I was a teenager, there was Persis.
I suppose being dead since 1998 (her career died at least ten years earlier) doesn't help her much as a sex symbol, but it didn't really do Marylin Monroe any harm in that respect. Just froze Marylin in time, really. It could be argued Persis was already frozen in time in 1979, because that's still the way people remember her. Most of her obituaries ran with a 20-year-old bald headshot.
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Well Persis IS a sex icon for a lot of acomophiliacs I imagine. She's the first well known actress I can think of to sport the look. She's more of a cult favorite though, back then the media didn't have much use for ethnic sex symbols let alone bald ones.
The most well known actresses to sport the buzzed or shaved look are Natalie Portman, Sigourney Weaver, and Demi Moore and Demi was the only one to go all the way. Natalie has done the most I think to promote the idea that yeah bald women can be gorgeous. But then Britney had to ruin everything and now the media treats female headshaving like it's clear a sign of mental illness.
They freak out so much about girls going bald or buzzed that you don't even have to do it, even the idea is threatening to people. Tabloids made a big deal about Cameron Diaz going bald even though she didn't. Actresses of high caliber like Emma Thompson, Joan Chen and Cate Blanchett have done it in dedication to their roles but Diaz wouldn't dare demean herself for a mere movie role, noooooooooooo, she clearly doesn't take the art seriously enough to care that her bald cap looked absolutely ridiculous and unconvincing.
The girl who played her daughter in the movie actually shaved her head completely bald and her eyebrows too. But she didn't get the props for her bravery at all, all people cared about was some washed up actress in a bald cap.
F*ck the media maaaaaaaaaaaan.