I find a snide implication my opponent is homosexual always stenghtens my argument.
Oh, and don't forget to imply that your opponent has "daddy" issues if she's a woman. Slip this one in even if you've never met the opponent or actually read any of her writing.
We have discussed this before. I wasn't implying that she is a lesbian. I was implying that the trend of leftist women keeping short, butch, haircuts has a purpose: to send masculine power signals to men. Purpose? To lower the masculinity contrast between men and women (which is also why so many male leftist types on campus find long hair chic).
Barbara's hair would be just fine ... if her male peers sported crew cuts as a matter of routine. My point is however should they choose to do so, the women professors would then go nearly bald to make their point.
Mrs. Gb, on the other hand .. I should tell you she liked keeping her hair short. No maintenance. No fuss. Gave her a kind of brassy edge in the corp world environment she occasionally deals with ...;
But after delving into Puritan thinking, I pointed out a few things to her that wasn't obvious to either one of us. These days, I must say, I like her long hair. And she helps me keep track of keeping mine short.
(The Bible makes it clear fwiw; God likes the differences between male and female, and likes the contrast to be quite visible).