Longhair birthday present

Longhair birthday present

Patrick

Just thought you might all get a kick out of this.
A couple of days ago, I celebrated my birthday. I am the manager of a staff of 8, mostly women. I have, by far, the longest hair of any guy where I work (hey, it's a financial services company in central Virginia!), and it's only a little past my shoulders--oh, and I had only recently started wearing it in a ponytail.
Anyway, at our staff meeting, they did the birthday thing for me, but what cracked me up was that each of them walked up to where I was sitting, and they all dropped ponytail holders on the table in front of me, as though they were making a birthday offering! It was hysterical! We all got a huge laugh out of it, and it made me feel good that I worked in a place where it was OK enough to have long hair that I could get ribbed for it in good humor.
Just thought this might be an encouragement to all you guys out there who have been abused for having long hair--it's not the same everywhere!

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- Re: Longhair birthday present
  
  viking
  
  Just thought you might all get a kick out of this.
  A couple of days ago, I celebrated my birthday. I am the manager of a staff of 8, mostly women. I have, by far, the longest hair of any guy where I work (hey, it's a financial services company in central Virginia!), and it's only a little past my shoulders--oh, and I had only recently started wearing it in a ponytail.
  Anyway, at our staff meeting, they did the birthday thing for me, but what cracked me up was that each of them walked up to where I was sitting, and they all dropped ponytail holders on the table in front of me, as though they were making a birthday offering! It was hysterical! We all got a huge laugh out of it, and it made me feel good that I worked in a place where it was OK enough to have long hair that I could get ribbed for it in good humor.
  Just thought this might be an encouragement to all you guys out there who have been abused for having long hair--it's not the same everywhere!
  Its nice to read a post like this and to know that attitudes towards long hair on boys and men are begining to change. Maybe people are seeing that long hair for boys and men is not going away permanently (I still see some guys wearing it every day, no matter whether I'm in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, or Pittsburgh, and even construction workers on the PA Turnpike), and are now willing to except that long hair for men and boys is here to stay. Just think, the longer we men keep our long hair and pass the torch to our sons (let our sons have long hair) and defend our sons against fashion dictators, maybe society's thinking of men and boys with long hair will change. But the more guys give up their long hair for a lame short nerdy ninetys hairsyle, it won't help the cause.
  
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  - How Things Change
    
    David
    
    construction workers on the PA Turnpike),
    Ah...Construction workers. I'm old enough to all-too-clearly remember
    American flag decals on the sides of safety helmets...America, Love It Or Leave It..."Get a haircut, you commie faggot"...The construction worker riot that ensued after the American flag at NYC City Hall was placed at half-mast, for the victims at Kent State....
    And yesterday morning..6:50 AM...Midtown Manhattan...6 or 8 construction guys waiting for the work day to begin. One removes his hard hat to reveal six big perfect cornrows ending in shoulder length braids. Another has a mid-back ponytail, medium brown at the scrunchie, pale blonde and curly at the ends. He offsets this with two sets of hoops in his double pierced ears. One set about 1/2 inch, the larger set, about 1 inch.
    Sure, a couple of the older guys still looked like John Wayne wanna-bes, but its getting harder to spot a work gang without at least one longhair.
    Keep it growin...
    David
    
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