Last week, Amelia asked readers what they thought about women with shaved heads. Here are a few responses sent in via email. Join the conversation at Facebook.com/DaytonDailyNews.
Yvonne Touzet-Rall — Less is best, I found. For the past 77 years, I have had to live with baby fine and skimpy, “mushy” hair. Shaving it? No! But leaving it alone? Yes! Today, at last, I just shampoo, put it up, out of my way, and I like my hair better than all these years before. No perms, no chemicals, nothing! I do not even cut it anymore.”
Dennis Gray -“I think women can look really sexy with a shaved head. They look best shaved smooth or very short. The fuzzy look of just a buzz isn’t as attractive.”
If the Olympic Games have taught me anything, it’s that you absolutely cannot do anything you want in this world.
I am not being negative. I’m being honest.
I wanted to be a gymnast just like Mary Lou Retton when I was 8-years-old. Mary Lou did America proud by becoming the first female gymnast outside Eastern Europe to win the all-around title at the 1984 Olympics.
But when I was 8, Mary Lou Retton already had secured the job of being Mary Lou Retton.
Add that to the fact that at age 8, I was far too pleasantly plump and clumsy to master the balance beam and you have a recipe for someone not fit to represent the United States of America on the world stage in gymnastics.
My knees still bare scars from all the times I tripped over air and fell down.
I wanted to be a track and field star in junior high, but I wouldn’t have even made my school’s team without a little trickery.
Even with that trickery — cutting through a parking lot instead of running around the school as required - I only made the team by default — they needed more female shotputters and discus throwers.
My legs can stand fine, but they weren’t and aren’t made for running. As someone wise once said, I only run when I am being chased.
So no, little girls and little boys, you can’t do anything in the world you want.
It is not a bad thing. It is just a thing. Everyone can do something but not everyone can do everything.
Just because 99.9999 percent of us could never medal in a Canoe Slalom race doesn't mean we should boo those who will.
It is most excellent to watch people achieve greatness.
The vast majority of us couldn’t taekwondo ourselves out of a paper bag let alone win bronze in such an endeavor.
That’s the way it should be.
The Olympic games teach us that where there is a will, there is a way — for someone. Maybe that person is you — but most likely not.
If everyone could win Olympic gold in badminton, winning gold in badminton wouldn’t be great.
Only lame or bored children would gather around a TV set if winning gold in badminton was as common as buying iced coffee at Tim Horton’s.
There’s nothing wrong with buying iced coffee at Tim Horton’s — heck, I would argue that there are a lot of things right about buying iced coffee at Tim Horton’s — but buying iced coffee at Tim Horton’s is nothing that would capture a nation’s imagination.
Winning gold in badminton on the other hand…
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