All About the Hair

    The President gave a great speech at the inauguration, but I'm here to talk about something a little more important: Michelle Obama's hair. If you have been hiding under a rock for the past few days,  then you probably haven't heard the BIG news: the First Lady, Michelle Obama, has bangs!
     When I first saw them, I didn't think much of it. I get haircuts all the time, but nobody ever seems to think of it as a big deal. The First Lady's haircut, though, had America buzzing. People across the country are talking not only about how they think Obama looks with bangs, but also about why exactly they think she did it. There is even a Twitter account called "FirstLady'sbangs" (that's when you know its a huge deal). As much as I love having to deal with my own hair everyday, thinking so hard about someone else's, as well, would probably give me a headache. People have come up with all kinds of hypotheses about why Michelle Obama got bangs. To begin, some say its the "youth factor." This one's pretty simple, she's just trying to make herself look younger. Others say, and this Washington Post article quotes, "she's expressing her inner self." In other words, now that it's Barack Obama's second term in office (and her second term as first lady), she is feeling more comfortable and free to express herself.  Others ponder that perhaps the First Lady has gotten bangs representing the fact that she "has plans to forge a new and expanded role in the second term, taking on different issues." Upon reading that, I thought to myself, "since when do bangs have such deep meaning?"
      These ideas could be realistic, don't get me wrong, but why can't the woman just get a haircut and not have all this speculation surrounding it? I'm not hating on the hair, I actually think it's quite trendy, but I just don't completely understand what all the fuss is about! Why do people pay more attention to the First Lady's hair than they do to issues facing our country?