The Lucrative Business of Making Women Feel Bad About Themselves

Picture attempts to be ironic. Operative word: attempts. Also: That's Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in the movie, The Big Lebowski, in the main photo.

Picture attempts to be ironic. Operative word: attempts. Also: That’s Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in the movie, The Big Lebowski—which you should see, if you haven’t yet—in the main photo.

(From a private Facebook note of Ichi Batacan, author of the award-winning novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles, who has given me permission to upload this on my blog on the condition that some names be withheld.)

It’s been awfully hot these last few weeks, and my ends of my hair — falling about two inches below my jawline — have been making my neck itch. Continue reading