The shorter my hair is, the more trouble it is to get it to look a certain way. Everyone I know with short hair has to blow dry and style, etc, I don't have to do any of that.

I have curly hair and had long and short hair at diffident times. When long, I ended up wearing a ponytail all the time because I don't like hair in my face. My scalp didn't breathe and got itchy. Now I have short hair, slap some gel on hair and finger style it. Blow dry is for special occasions. Anyway, some of the women in this article have far too thin hair to have it long and quite a few are naturally curly which takes more work than straight. What gets me is that people say how nice long styled hair would look (and of course it would) but don't understand that everybody has different type of hair which takes different approach. PS in my case mid length hair is the worst, almost impossible to make it look good.

You're doing something wrong if its taking you an hour.. 10-15 mins drying it and 5-10 mins curling or straightening and I have thick long hair.

Well I have curly (therefore dry) hair and live somewhere where it rains a lot (here comes the frizz). If you take 5 - 10 minutes to curl or straighten your thick long hair, it's you who's doing something wrong. Probably missing half of your hair without noticing and not doing a proper job. Which, if you don't have frizz prone hair, wouldn't show anyway so it doesn't matter. I used to do a quick job and wondered why the hair never looked quite straight until my hairdresser told me I can't straighten my hair well if I'm ironing thick chunks of hair quickly.

As a woman myself with rich haircut history, currently with long straight hair, I still think you can look good in long hair without a need of much styling. Getting a fresh haircut or a hairdye, or even using conditioner isn't that big effort or cost, but it can make such a huge difference.

Are you telling me if you wanted a hair styled (keyword is styled) like from a salon you would take 30 seconds to achieve it? Well good on you, you must have some really good quality hair. Either way, my whole point was that everybody is banging on about how long hair is better but it's only because we don't let women do whatever they want and keep pushing these ideals on them. We've let men have long hair for ages, it's time to let women have short hair without crying about it.