No matter what Simon says, it’s OK to be gray
If America’s newest Idol and sexiest superhero don’t mind sporting silvery hair, perhaps its millions of graying baby boomers can feel better about themselves.
In the afterglow of his win, the newest American Idol, 29-year-old Taylor Hicks, took questions after the show. Inevitably, the subject of his radically unusual hair color was broached: “I didn’t have any idea that America would embrace gray hair as much as they have,” he told reporters.
Gee, where on Earth would he have gotten the idea that America doesn’t embrace gray hair? Could it have crossed his mind when he was told early on by Simon Cowell that he was too gray to be the American Idol? Or maybe because the culture is anaphylactically allergic to the concept of aging gracefully?
I think for men, it’s alright to sport premature salt and pepper hair but for women, it’s a disaster.
