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I told my daughter that I’d probably get my hair cut after our State church’s Assembly meeting this week.
‘Why,’ she said, ‘would you wait? Wouldn’t you rather get a hair cut before the Assembly, so you can look good?’
Which reveals the essential difference between women’s and men’s haircuts.
Women go and get a haircut because they want their hair to look perfect that day, knowing it will never be quite as good as that on succeeding days.
Men go and get a haircut knowing that it will look its best in about five to nine days. And we’d appreciate it if no-one looked at us or commented on said haircut for the duration of that time.

Tragically, when I get a haircut, the positive comments about it are generated by relief that it has happened, not appreciation for how it looks.