{"id":15368,"date":"2017-05-23T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2017-05-23T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:58:20","slug":"you-know-something-awful-has-happened-when-a-female-character-cuts-her-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/you-know-something-awful-has-happened-when-a-female-character-cuts-her-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know Something Awful Has Happened When A Female Character Cuts Her Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/052317_1153_YouKnowSome1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alaina Leary delved into the &#8220;Important Haircut&#8221; trope:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In movies and television, a female character cutting her hair is typically a response to severe trauma and the point where the character is &#8220;reborn&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s an easy trope as it allows the viewer to visualize internal trauma.<\/li>\n<li>It also has some basis in truth. Psychologists say that survivors of trauma often find a haircut helps with healing. It is an aspect of one&#8217;s life that one has complete control over, and there are no detrimental effects.<\/li>\n<li>There are downsides to the trope. People may think that only major external signs like a haircut are an indication that their friend may need help or support.<\/li>\n<li>A character cutting her own hair is often shown to be in hysterics \u2013 possibly creating a stigma against what can be a healthy act.<\/li>\n<li>And then there are women who just like to have short hair, and would rather people don&#8217;t think they have cancer or are traumatized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racked.com\/2017\/5\/22\/15654574\/tv-haircuts-trauma-13-reasons-why\">Racked<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaina Leary delved into the &#8220;Important Haircut&#8221; trope: In movies and television, a female character cutting her hair is typically a response to severe trauma and the point where the character is &#8220;reborn&#8221;. It&#8217;s an easy trope as it allows the viewer to visualize internal trauma. It also has some basis in truth. Psychologists say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/052317_1153_YouKnowSome1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15371,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions\/15371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}