The Side Shave, R.I.P. (ca. 1989-2015)

Of all the paradoxes of beauty standards, hair politics are the strangest. Women are encouraged to shave, pluck, wax, and otherwise obliterate any hair from the eyebrows down, but throughout history, those who've taken Bics and buzzers to the hair on their heads have violated social norms. Shaving a woman's head has been a punishment in fact and fiction, visited upon the likes of Cersei Lannister, Joan of Arc, and French women who consorted with German soldiers during World War II. Women have do...