In 2026, women are going bald

I was six years old when Britney Spears shaved her head in 2007. Pictures of her smiling as she took clippers to her dark brown hair were splashed across the front cover of every gossip magazine, alongside headlines referring to the 25-year-old as having gone “mad“ or “insane”. The media frenzy around the event solidified in my child brain that when a woman shaved her head, something must be wrong with her. 

As a child, those images of Spears scared me.hellip;

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