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epitome of incomprehensibility
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I dreamed I was back in a place with David, and I wake up thinking about shower caps.
Shower caps!
What's the deal?
Well, just when you think you've neutralized the gender stereotypes you grew up with, you find yourself secretly amused that a man (your boyfriend) possesses a shower cap but a woman (you) does not.
It's the shape, maybe. Mushroom with a suggestion of frill, like one of Anne Shirley's puffed sleeves. Femininity!
But the salient difference here isn't sex or gender, just whether our heads are equally anointed with oil.
He said, well, it's to stop my hair from getting wet when I'm in the shower but not washing it.
I understand that, I said, but why bother? I just let my hair get wet. But I suppose it's sensible to cut down on drying time.
No, it's not that - it's mainly because so much water on my hair will dry it out.
...And oily-headed Kirsten learns something new! The gender binary: dry to oily.
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