Hey everybody. The ladies behind the award-winning world famous podcast Stuff Mom Never Told
You, Cristen and Caroline come on down. Oh, hey, thank you. Hi! Hey oh my god! Oh my god
look at that! Oh, yeah that's great.
Caroline I'm so glad to have you on the show back by popular demand, Caroline Ervin co-host
of Stuff Mom Never Told You. The last Ask Cristen we did was on friendship. I would
like to congratulate @Piperstwin for having the top comment on the most recent episode
of Ask Cristen and the comment is, 'Friends? What are this?' It really hits at the root
of something deep. We've got some questions from YouTube also couple of questions that
were emailed in. If you ever want to email the both of us we are at momstuff@discovery.com.
Mmm-hmmm. @Ms. Pokemongirl123 asks, 'How do you get a guy to respect you, a woman,' in
parentheses, 'without intimidating him?' I would say don't be afraid to assert your intelligence.
Not in a negative way, not bragging about how smart you are, but asserting in such a
way that you are not afraid to speak up, speak your mind and give your opinion. If you are
yourself and that is an intelligent thoughtful person and that's intimidating to a guy, maybe
look elsewhere. Mutual respect, you want it to go both ways. Yeah like why would you want
the respect of someone that you yourself do not respect? Now there's a question for Ask
Cristen. Christiana Torres has a question about friends and this is a tough one, she
says, 'Hey what do I do if 3 of my friends were talking behind my back? Should I address
them, if so, how?' People have to vent from time to time. If you know kind of the degree
of the conversation that was being had, maybe let it slide but I feel like if they are your
friends, they are your true friends and they're talking like serious smack, then maybe a conversation
needs to happen. Here's the thing that happens a lot and I think too much in female friendships
and that is a touch of passive aggression, where you seem to know that there's some backtalking
going on. Rather than being direct you're kind of circling around the situation. So
you know what would be really beneficial is be direct. Don't be a jerk. If the other girls
are alienating you from the group for no good reason, just say that. Be prepared that they
might have a reason for talking behind your back. But the surefire way to prolong all
of this distress that you're going through is by not bringing it up. Because friendship
can be hard, so be direct don't be passive aggressive in the schoolyard. Guy who calls
himself Gman wrote in to momstuff@discovery.com with a question. He says, 'There's something
I can't help myself wondering and that is do women like a bald, bearded man? Like bald
with only a beard?' Totally! Yeah, why wouldn't they? I think that it's totally acceptable
and totally attractive, I mean you and I, we both, we like a good beard. And finally
speaking of hair we have a question from @Sarah Ledger asking, 'Why is it so common for women
to have longer hair versus shorter hair and vice versa for men? Is it okay for women to
have short hair?' And gold star Stuff Mom Never Told You listener and YouTube viewer
@Hypatia Terran said, 'She's done a podcast on this.' And indeed Caroline we did recently
do a podcast about women and short hair specifically. Why do women tend to have the longer hair?
Society. Feminine norms. Feminine norms. But in our episode on short hair we touched on
so many beautiful, beautiful famous women who have short hair and have rocked it. Everybody
from Audrey Hepburn to Anne Hathaway. I have gone short before, because my hair is fine
and it has a little bit of wave in it, it can just be unpredictable. So it's hard to
manage if it's short but I've done it. What about you, how short would you go? The shortest
I've ever gone was seventh grade and I cut my hair to here. Oh I want a picture. Like
it a little bob and it was down the middle. If there was enough money on the line I'd
cut my hair off. Money? If someone wants to pay me like $5,000 to cut my hair off I'll
do it. Now I have questions for you. Ladies--ladies--help us out with Gman's question, what do you think
about balding men, or completely bald men? Still attractive? What do you think? And guys,
what do you think about ladies with short hair? Is long the only way you can go or is
short hair sexy? Think outside the box. Think outside the bald. Don't forget to leave your
questions too. Any and all questions you have, you can leave them in the comments, you can
tweet us @momstuffpodcast, you can e-mail us at momstuff@discovery.com or find us on
Facebook, facebook.com/stuffmomnevertoldyou. Thanks for all of your questions and I'll
see you next week. Thanks Caroline. Hey sure. And don't forget to subscribe.