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Did anyone else see the Montel show yesterday (Monday)? It was a show about makeovers for kids who are supposedly mistaken for the opposite gender - because of the way they look. They had two young boys (maybe 10 years old or so)on the show, one with shoulder length hair and one with hair almost to his waiste. The one with shoulder length hair was given a buzz cut - dear God! He looked cute and happy before the slaughter, but he looked terrible, unhappy and uncomfortable afterwards. The one with the much longer hair had his hair cut so that it was all one length (a little shorter than shoulder-length). He did look fairly happy when he came out to show off his new look - but he did, after all, still have a good ten or twelve inches left.
What I don't understand is why one of those programs can't (or won't) do a show about guys with long hair who wouldn't for one minute consider cutting it, but would like some help in maintaining their hair in good, healthy condition. And maybe be shown how to wear their hair to best suite their tastes, needs, jobs, etc.
Maybe some of you guys who already have great long hair could write to a few of those talk shows and suggest that type of thing. I've just only started to grow mine long - and it ain't there yet - so I don't think I'd have enough personal knowledge on the subject to make a convincing argument for such a show. What the hell, give it a try.
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I sometimes read of shows of this kind , and you know what ?
They make me sick , and puke all over , I hate it !!!
They better make shows about how nice and beatiful a long haired
male can be , instead of cutting it !
I heard about it, though I didn't see it myself, and I'm very frankly glad I missed it because that sort of thing makes me sick. I encounter that kind of "What, are you trying to look like a girl?" attitude towards my own family all the time as both my husband and my son have extremely long hair. Since when does short hair make the man... or long hair make the woman, for that matter? We chose to switch our kids to a different school three years ago after our son's homeroom teacher requested to see me regarding a matter she said was of the utmost urgency. The urgent matter turned out to be that she was freaking out over the length of his hair (mid-back). The school didn't have any specific policy against long hair, but SHE didn't like it. It offended her religious sensibilities or some such nonsense, and the word "sissy" got tossed out, which offends me because my boy's sexual preferences will never be anyone's business but his own. You can imagine the look on her face when I took a picture of my husband out of my purse and gave her a gander at his waist-length hair. It didn't make me feel any better about her oh-those-poor-little-boys-who-have-to-look-like-girls attitude, but I sure did enjoy watching her mouth flap open and shut. Even so, I was in a bad mood for the rest of the day, and you don't want to KNOW the details of the fit my husband threw when I told him about it. That we yanked three kids out of a pricey private school the next day ought to tell you how angry we both were over the situation.
The fact is, boys and men with long hair DON'T look like females. They look like males, period, end of story. They're blessed, not cursed, to have their beautifiul hair. The next time Montel gets the urge to hack little boys' hair off, maybe we all ought to get together, lock him away until his own hair grows out, then put him on his own show and announce on national television that we didn't think he looked like enough of a man with his shaved head.
Thanks for letting me rant.
Gypsy