I don’t mean like as an individual I’ve got a certain je ne sais ‘justfuckmyshitup’.
I mean when did “does my hair look good ?” become a thing to worry about for worry ? Do you think birds worry about their hair ? Or horses ? Or amoebas ?
I don’t mean like as an individual I’ve got a certain je ne sais ‘justfuckmyshitup’.
I mean when did “does my hair look good ?” become a thing to worry about for worry ? Do you think birds worry about their hair ? Or horses ? Or amoebas ?
sorry i'm very tired and didn't read the second bit of text, so i responded as if you did mean "je ne sais qua "justfuckmyshitup"
I am that relative, so for me it’s 0 steps.
A couple of my relatives have very curly hair and don’t have to worry as much about how it looks, so i think we’re predisposed to that.
If you come from a culture that does certain hair shaping techniques, then you’re gonna have a bunch of ancestors who didn’t have to worry how their hair looked. Also i guess there are families where all the men shave their head. Seems like a common thing for eastern europeans nowadays.
Birds and cats do seem to care about their plumage/fur, grooming it with their mouths. But they all shape it in the same way. So human stylisation must ultimately arise from A) our overall low hair coverage, making us obsess more with the big concentration of head hair and B) our drive for “specialisation” signalling. We historically have liked to show our roles in society through clothes, and still do.