We’ve seen Derick Dillard with long hair and with short hair. While TLC has fired Derick for his transphobic tweets against Jazz Jennings, fans can still see his haircut mishaps on social media.
And his latest haircut, though neither his longest or his shortest, might be his worst ever. Fans are roasting him over it, left and right.
We don’t want to go so far as to say that the haircut is a divine punishment, but Derick Dillard’s disastrous ‘do might be a natural consequence of the awful things that he says.
At the risk of perpetuating stereotypes … if you’re super anti-LGBT+ and you’re also not the sort of person who associates with many women outside of your family, your hairstyling might suffer.
Maybe that’s not a priority for Derick Dillard?
But though there are absolutely heterosexual men who are hairstylists, in addition to plenty of straight male barbers (I’m not clear on how barbers are different from hair stylists and at this point in life I’m too afraid to ask) …
… We almost wonder if homophobia and some nervousness about women is behind the fact that Jill always cuts Derick’s hair.
Plenty of people cut their own hair or their partner’s hair, but they’re being frugal.
As we saw when Jill and Derick shared those tone-deaf date night photos, the Dillards are not shy about spending money that many believe may have come from their dubious fundraising.
So it may be that Derick is afraid that going into a salon and letting a woman who isn’t his wife (some vile temptress!) or perhaps even a gay man cut his hair would test either his marriage or his faith.
But, you know what?
We should also consider that Derick Dillard’s bigotry isn’t necessarily behind his weird haircuts.
Maybe he just likes letting Jill cut his hair, no matter how it makes him look.
Because, for all of Derick’s many, many flaws, he loves his wife and it’s something that they can do together.
Again, this is just our speculation, but that’s almost sweet.
Speaking of sweet, the “best” (worst) photo of Derick’s new hair comes with him eating cookie dough (the best way to eat cookies) in a snap that Jill shared to Instagram.
Jill wrote the caption:
“My sweet hubby @derickdillard #livingontheedge eating some raw #cookiedough #lol”
And here’s the photo:
His hair.
If you think that we’re overreacting to this 1970s-era horror-show and merely assuming that fans had the same response, think again.
Commenters wrote:
“I’m sorry, but everything about this photo is creepy.”
Many thought that he looked like a creepy uncle from decades past.
“I like this family but this guy looks like someone on the 70’s show.”
That’s a reference to That ’70s Show, and they’re not wrong.
(Note, the emover that was so very fashionable around 2007 is not the same — it had much more body and gave a more sculpted, sleeker look)
“Ahahaaaaaaaa! Cuz he is a SLOB!!!”
That last comment was less about Derick Dillard’s haircut, we think, and more about his recent eating habits.
Remember how Derick Dillard came back from his controversial mission trip, looking as gaunt as Jesus is sometimes depicted?
Fans were worried.
Now, he seems to be snacking on junk food exclusively. We all like junk food, but things like his corndog-and-twinkie “midnight snack” have fans feeling alarmed.
Catastrophic weight loss followed by binging on junk food can be worse than just binging on junk food alone. We’re not shaming Derick Dillard for his eating habits (heck, I don’t even shame Trump for his eating habits), just confirming that his concerned fans have some validity.
As you can imagine, the fan responses to the photo of Derick have now broken down to debates over Derick Dillard’s transphobic tweets against Jazz Jennings and the trans community.
Those calling out Derick for his bigoted stances are themselves being accused of “bullying” by Derick’s defenders.
While posting comments teasing Derick over his hair sounds like classic bullying — it is, ultimately, his choice, we don’t see how pointing out that Derick’s recent controversial statements are bigoted is bullying.
Because his statements about trans kids and about trans teen Jazz Jennings have been … well, inflammatory.
