No, Beyonce isn't getting a reality show. (Even despite all those letters I've been writing my senator about it. Apparently, that's not what senators do...) Queen Bey has just joined the ranks of Lauren Conrad and Kim Kardashian in a cohort of famous women cutting all their hair off. Or at least taking their weaves out.

Beyonce and husband Jay Z attended Tom Ford's Fall/Winter 2015 show looking like this. The newly short hair is hard to spot at first, since Bey is serving a lot of leg for February. (If you look closely, you'll see she's cloaking flesh-tone stirrup leggings under that sheer skirt, though, don't worry.) But when you see it, you can't unsee it.

Here's a closer look, right next to a snap taken of Beyonce with exxxxxxtra long mermaid waves on the 2015 Grammys red carpet just two weeks ago. Though it's been a while, this isn't the first time in the past year that Bey has dabbled in ~the bob~.

There was that time this past fall when we all had to watch with envy as Bey uploaded photo after photo from her tropical vacation. (Autumn crisp is nice, but white sand beaches are nicer, IMHO.)

And then, of course, there was the time she woke up like this. But since then, the length of Bey's hair has yo-yo'ed, and there have been a grip of other ladies who have joined the club.

Top of mind, we have Lauren Conrad, who shortened up over the course of three separate haircuts because she hadn't cut her hair in seven years and was sure she would "freak out."

Kim Kardashian got this blunt shoulder-length bob just before the Grammys, and it's the absolute shortest her hair has been in recent memory.

Then, there's Lady Gaga, who went chin-length last week. Though, she's been quick to cover it right back up—the lady loves her wigs.

When Selena Gomez got this new 'do, we thought maybe the newfound popularity of short, choppy haircuts was a throwback to "The Rachel," thanks mostly to the '90s revival that has delivered chokers, colorful faux fur, and soon JNCOs back into our closets. But then, we started looking deeper.

A little over a year ago, Taylor Swift made a lot of noise with her dramatic cut, even going so far as to invite 30+ of her closest friends to watch.

A year before that, Karlie Kloss' haircut—as in, the act of her getting her hair cut—got its own feature in Vogue.

Sure, the bob is not as risky a cut as, say, Miley's pixie, but there's a certain level of boldness required to hack off this many inches of hair, especially if you've identified with having long hair almost all your life. So, why are this many famous ladies willing to do it? Well, for one, having one of the world's finest glam squads makes it easy to trust that a major change like this will end well, but the shorter length is attractive because it's full of strength.

More than just a change of pace, the growing trend of shorter hair is a reflection of a generation of women embracing their power, rebelling against traditional conceptions of femininity. That might sound like an extreme read of a haircut, but turn back the clock and you'll notice that two other eras of the recent past that were dominated by ladies with short hair were the '20s and '60s—decades marked by social and cultural rebellion, as well as first- and second-wave feminism.

The bob is a power look, and with a severe blunt cut, it's one that exudes control. And after a year marked by the launch of one of the biggest initiatives for global gender equality, it only makes sense that it would become popular for women to want to look as strong as they feel.