Baba Pugwuthi
Chicago tribune columnist Heidi Stevens couldn't believe her e mail one day. She had just had a hair job done giving herself a new look with wavy curls and couldn't wait to see what she looked like in the new Tribune photo of herself for the readers to see this transformation. Heidi received hate mail for months after this new look was revealed and Heidi was shocked and disappointed. Some trolls told her to shoot her hairstylist while others called her a "tramp" and to look more "professional". Heidi was taken aback and wrote another column about these hate emails and snail mails kept coming. Heidi wrote another article about how women from Hillary Clinton to Sheryl Sandberg are judged at times by the hair instead of their actions and policies and that women's hair styles should not be talking points.
With this Heidi Stevens got even ore hate mail and more hate mail for her expressed views that her hairstyle is irrelevant and besides the point. n all her years as a columnist Heidi couldn't believe how something so trivial would draw such a reader reaction and Heidi wrote another article about this and her disappointment about her hair and peoples judgmental writings in e mails. after this Heidi receive a barrage of hate mail and more vicious reaction from readers ...and the point of this is basically that female columnists out there that maybe it is better to ignore the initial reaction and get to writing something more relevant. Heidi and these other columnists she quotes in her hair articles need to man up and get through criticism from mostly other women who are just jealous that a few select women have a such a self-presenting and powerful job and voice as a columnist in a large paper. At least these emails gave Heidi Stevens some content for a few weeks. Heidi's hair looks great but for her teeth now that is something else
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