These girls terrify me

When I was in high school there was a group of guys we called the 'white hats' they were called this because they all wore white baseball caps with various (and seemingly random) colleges on them. They all pretty much looked the same, and acted the same. My friends and I mostly took as little notice of them as we did of ants, they were only annoying when they were around, but even then you couldn't tell one from the other. They were fairly harmless I think, just kind of stupid and self involved.

I'm discovering now, that in college there is a female version of those boys. I don't know what to call them, but I know them when I see them and for some reason they drive me nuts! There is one here now, where I am studying and I can't help but watch her, she is fascinatingly boring. She reminds me of a girl I had class with last semester who also drove me to distraction for no apparent reason.

They all wear their hair in the purposefully-messy style. It involves 'throwing' your hair into a ponytail at the top of your head, then putting an elastic headband around your head so that the inch or so around your face looks smooth and out of the way, but everything after that looks bumpy and tousled. It drives me nuts! so much effort to look like you didn't put any effort into it at all. I think there are about 2 girls in the world who's hair really looks like that when she just tosses it up into a ponytail before leaving the house after an all-nighter. And I'm willing to bet that these girls saw that girl and thought "man, she even looks good when she doesn't have time to get all done up" then they started going out of their way to prove that they too could look good "with no effort", too. Its not just the way they do their hair, they put makeup on, again in that practiced-careless way, too.

And the expressions on their faces, its like looking at a mask, there is no joy apparent, there is no shame, just judgement, as though they have the right to just stare out at you. They look both bored and judgmental, haughty as though they don't care what you think of them, all the while they are carefully calculating what you are doing, constantly judging themselves and you to be better or worse.

I wonder who they think they are dressing down (as opposed to dressing up) for. Who are they trying to impress? who are they trying to snare? Do they really want the guys who want someone who looks just like everyone else? and why would they want that? who's life are they trying to live?

The overall effect is one that makes me mistrust them. They seem dangerous. Maybe thats why I can't look away.