Could Jared Leto's Hair Lead to the End of Gender Stereotypes?
By Lauren Le Vine, REDBOOK.
Now, stay with us here. As people tasked with watching many red carpets (okay fine, we love every second of them), one of our favorite trends that's emerged this season involves actresses calling out correspondents for objectifying females more than males. As the camera did a slowwww pan up from her feet on the SAG Awards red carpet, Cate Blanchett asked Giulianna Rancic if they "do this to men." Touché, Cate. Even if Ryan Seacrest asks an actor "who he's wearing," it's in a joking "I'm treating you like a girl heh heh heh" kind of way.
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That's why we're choosing to see this People article as a ray of hope that someday the silly gendering that goes on regarding hair and fashion might disappear. The post is called "Jared Leto's Hairstylist: 'He Has Amazing Hair, So It's Kind of Inevitable' That He Ends Up On 'Best Hair' Lists." That's right, it's an entire article on how Best Supporting Actor frontrunner Jared Leto will wear his hair to the Oscars on Sunday.
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"The big thing on my shoulders right now is if the hair is gonna be up or down. I'm voting up, because we've only done it maybe once before. I want to do something with a side part this time, something cleaner. And I want to try to get a bun that's nice and small, more like a traditional knot. The pony-bun press was kind of funny--I don't know if he liked all that or not," Leto's hairstylist Chase Kusero told beauty site Into the Gloss.
Is it possible the ingrained gender stereotype that it's a female thing to be asked how you're going to wear your hair is over, and instead we want to hear about anyone with remarkable locks, period? Yes, this article is very much superficial fluff, but it has the same lighthearted-but-also-very-important-issue tone usually reserved for comments about a female's appearance. It could easily have one of our favorite (read: least-favorite) ladies-only verbs in the headline: "Which Hairstyle Will Jared Leto Flaunt at the Oscars?"
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Unfortunately, the end leaves us slightly less hopeful for our dream of a world with gender-free hair discussions. "It's really important that he doesn't look like a woman--that's the biggest challenge," Kusero says. "It's hard not to have him end up on the 'best hair' lists." Um, why would that be such a terrible thing? Good hair is good hair, no matter whose head it's on.
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