Which Ponytail Are You?

I’m the pineapple only my ponytail sits on top of my head and it’s big and curly! :)

Hi there! I want to start by saying that I love Cup of Jo immensely and find it to be such a warm inviting corner of the internet. However, and I know it’s intended to mostly be a fun cartoon, I think this depiction unfairly presents hair types that are most often attributed to white or lighter skinned folks as the norm, which feels a bit out of the ordinary for CoJ’s normally very inclusive tone. Most of the cartoons I’ve seen published on here use white faces, and am just wondering if this is something that could be considered when choosing images moving forward. Thank you!

So, I was just driving in this morning thinking of pony tails. Can a 60 yr old woman pull off a pony tail? Thoughts?

I try for the examiner, but with my bob it is probably more like ‘the tuft’. Ow and as I have a six month old baby ‘the mom’ (with all the baby hairs flying around) would also be accurate. My hair is not sure anymore if it is straight or curly! You crazy hormones.

None of them because I’M A CURLY!! #itsastraightworld #therestofusjustlivehere

So funny and spot on. I have a ton of thick wavy hair so mine always looks like the crimper although I try to look like the socialite. Because I’m really tiny with a ton of hair I’m often known by my ponytail!

The Examiner most days and a Swinger the others.

The Examiner! Always a low, sleek pony for me.

Hahahaha this is so funny I never thought about my ponytail so much until now. I am the examiner!

Mine is the socialite for the first couple hours of the day. But then gravity asserts itself and my pony slowly descends and transforms into the clinger. I have yet to meet a hair accessory that can defy physics.

Maybe I’m a scraperapple or a pineappscraper

I think I’m the socialite, but end up looking like the rattail ??‍♀️

I have shoulder length naturally curly hair so it’s always pineapple no matter my intent!

I want to be the socialite (and imagine I look that way) but in reality I look like the scraper. In a not-cute way (because some people can really pull that off!). I love the meme someone else quoted, about looking like an eager young colonial man. So funny, and I think of that every time I do a low ponytail now.

Rocking a tuft since 2016! I love how everyone thinks it’s so cute but I secretly think, “I’m overdue for a cut”

I am the socialite via the scraper. I have very fine straight hair that is never all long enough to find its way into the ponytail. Especially one tuft on the left side that sticks straight out no matter what. I have no idea why it does that.

I guess i’m the scraper… but what do you call it when you’re too lazy to even pull the pony tail all the way through the holder, and leave it about halfway through, so the pony is in a big loop back on itself? It’s not a bun… I’m a LAZY SCRAPER. AWESOME.

love this one

My husband always calls the tuft pony a “founding father.” It makes me laugh every time, and love him a little bit more.

Wannabe Socialite, but usually a Pineapple. This is so cute!

Today I’m the eholmes – examiner with a black bow scrunchie ?

I’ve always gone socialite, occasionally examiner :)

I usually end up with a spin on the clinger – a “Deb” aka a side ponytail a la Deb from Napoleon Dynamite. (Thankfully mine’s usually looser so maybe it’s a little less 80’s??) Ha!

I know her comics are sort of about her… but I think this one missed the mark. It seemed to be trying for a universal appeal, and if so, could have been a lot more inclusive, using a few skin tones and hair types.

I have a ton of hair and two small children, so when I get home from work I often scrape it up into a messy rat’s nest knot on top of my head. For some reason my two year old calls this knot my “baby”. I have absolutely no idea why. He’ll stare at me a beat and thoughtfully ask “can I see your baby, mama?” I’ll dip my head down so he can check it out, sometimes earning a little pat, then off he goes.

So yeah, I guess I’m The Baby. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯