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* In 1968, many students and antiwar activists cut their hair as part of a "Get Clean for Gene" campaign in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, who ran on a platform in opposition to the [[Vietnam War]].
* Getting their hair "bobbed" or cut short was a rite of passage and symbol of independence for many flapper women in [[The Roaring Twenties]].
** Some modern women often do very short buzzcuts, or a sidecut (symmetric, or [[Fashionable Asymmetry|asymmetric]]) for similar reasons.
* Within weeks of wrapping the last ''Harry Potter'' film, [[Emma Watson]] traded her character's shoulder-length hair for a short pixie cut.
* Rebbe Akiva, one of the greatest Jewish sages, owed everything to his wife who did all in her power so that he could learn Torah - including cutting and selling her own hair.
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