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This was a satirical post. You don’t like sheitels, don’t wear ’em.
Hashem did not specify in the Written Torah the halacha of women covering their hair. Wasn’t it learned out from the inyan of the Isha Sotah? We cannot presume to state definitively why Hashem wants women to cover the hair after marriage, other than the fact that “sei’ar b’isha erva. The same hair in an unmarried woman is not erva.
The covering of hair serves to remind both men AND the married woman herself that she is now an eishes ish and off limits to other men. Does it say anywhere that a woman must cover her hair specifically to make herself look less appealing to others? Not to my admittedly very basic knowledge. It just shows that she is married and it is now therefore considered erva as any other part of her body that is erva for ALL females, married or not.
We may cover our other erva with nice clothing (and in fact on Shabbos and Yom Tov we are supposed to do just that). There is nothing wrong with covering the hair erva with a pretty sheitel. It still serves the purpose of following the law of covering the hair. When we start ascribing reasons other than the change of women’s marital status, to why HaKadosh Boruch Hu wants us to cover our hair after marriage, we run into problems. JMO.