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Hey, whats up?!
I've been growing my hair for a we while now, i'm really startin' 2 get happy with the results... it's getting better and better with time!
One thing thats strange though, lately i am getting a lot of people calling me a hippie, lol :) (people i work with, some of my friends and even friends of my parents) whats that all about?! I have 2 say its not the worst thing in the world 2 be called cuz to be honest with u, I'd like 2 think of myself as a hippie (I love the music from the 60's, acid rock.... i'm a HUGE Doors fan, Jim Morrison!! as u probably know already! He's my inspiration for my hair growth)...
neways have any of u ever been labelled a hippie? just because your hair is long? and how do u feel about it? I'm cool with it!! Plus its good that all these people are noticing my hair is getting longer!
Next time someone calls me a hippy I am going to start wearing nothing but tie dyes and flowers and stuff...
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I consider it a badge of honor. I was one of those original
hippies I started growing my hair long when the Beatles arrived
on the scene. Later on this hipie went on to protest the Viet
Nam war, the Nixon administration, the repression for long hair
in our schools, etc.
I loved the music from the 60s, but being a hippie went alot
deeper than the just the music. We felt we could change the
world.
BTW, there are those who believe Jim Morrison is still alive,
that he never really died......
yeah i know.... 1 things for sure, as long as his music can still be heard he's always gunna be alive. I love the beatles too!! but i understand what u mean about the whole hippie movement, it wuz more than just music. and u cud be sure that if i had of been born back then i wud have been following u all 100% :-)
I get cal;led a hippie a lot too,but after all I am an old hippie and I do wear tie-dye all the time.
I got called a hippy by my cousins husband, and this was when my hair was barely past my ears! I don't know if he was being funny or not, and I really didn't care either way. It was like a compliment and a good sign that my length was becoming noticeable. :)
Let me put it this way: My myspace name is "The Long Haired Hippie Child".
I got that nickname from my friend Laura, because we were talking about 60's and 70's music, like acid rock, and psychadelic stuff, and I like a lot of it. And my dad was a hippie back then.
yes. i take it as a compliment..it inspires me gets my hopes up to keep going for a longer lengt to show them how more hippie i am LOL
People call me a hippie all the time... but I guess I am a hippie anyway, so it works out.
People also call me Jesus a lot... but what most people don't know is that he most likely actually had short hair.
Hello Everyone,
I do take being called a hippie as a compliment, but in Montreal's Francophone community, there is a culture of respect for differences. I very very seldom get called names. I do not give any negative connotation to the term "hippie" since the hippies I knew when I was younger were doing something with their lives:
They were behind housing and food co-ops that sprung in Montreal throughout the seventies.
They organized peace festivals, music shows (especially the street fair, and Sunday in the Park type events).
As a child, I had hippies as day-camp monitors, and they seemed to make it a priority to discourage violence, and broke up fights between kids as soon as they started.
People perceive hippies as those who only spend their time smoking dope and collecting welfare. It depends how you look at it. A lot shunned work in the traditional sense of it, however those who started communes, and co-ops worked harder than anyone else.
Now it seems that in most people's mouths, "hippie" has a negative connotation. Funny to say, by the mid seventies, the longhairs who were involved in the co-op movements of the seventies also did not like to call themselves "hippies", even though they wore tie-dye and long hair. By 1976, the word "hippie" was never heard again... it was used positively only until about 1972-1973, even thought 73-75 was the height of the long hair with the glitter rock shows. By 1976 disco started to dramatically reduce the number of longhairs.
Today, I do feel respected, and I am the one who teases young longhairs at times, to see if they have character, since I notice a lot of young longhairs grow their hair for about two years, and when "common sense" is drummed into them, they cut it off. Often it takes a situation, like a sibling's wedding, a new job, or a decision "to do something in life".
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
I think the majority of us get called hippies at some stage. I also take it as a compliment. If it is meant as an insult, what does that say about the abuser? It seems to suggest that they support war and environmental destruction and so on.
"Today, I do feel respected, and I am the one who teases young longhairs at times, to see if they have character, since I notice a lot of young longhairs grow their hair for about two years, and when "common sense" is drummed into them, they cut it off. Often it takes a situation, like a sibling's wedding, a new job, or a decision "to do something in life"."
Good point Georges. I've met many former longhairs who cut their hair to get a job, or indeed a wedding or funeral. I really believe that in many countries today having long hair is not much of an issue. After all, thugs and gang-members generally have very short hair.
We hippies have an expression for that. It's called "selling out to the system".
Bill
Almost cut my hair
It happened just the other day
It's gettin kinda long
I coulda said it wasn't in my way
But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
Cause I feel like I owe it to someone
Must be because I had the flu' for Christmas
And I'm not feeling up to par
It increases my paranoia
Like looking at my mirror and seeing a scar
But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
Cause I missed myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone
When I finally get myself together
I'm going to get down in that sunny southern weather
And I find a place inside to laugh
Separate the wheat from the chaff
I feel like I owe it to someone
Someone should give this song to Crosby Stills Nash and Young
to record. Me thinks it will be a huge hit for them.
When i think of hippies i think of dudes with long hair/beards who smoke pot, collect welfare, listen to rock music and drive Kombi vans. That's the typical stereotype. As Georges stated, this is the negative connotations about how hippies are perceieved by 'society' but it usually false and innacurate assessment.
Even though i'm not a hippie i think they are cool and i admire their simple lives and i love old school rock music.
Yes, the "average person" has an image in their mind about those so-called Hippies that they remember. These people were a source of alot of trouble and usually absolutely filthy. It is little wonder that they associate long hair on guys with these types.
I always admired the real Hippie. Strangely, I myself have never been called one to this day.
"Bloody hippy!!!"
I get called "hippie" a lot, and I always take it as a compliment - hey, I am being acknowledged! I like the music from that era the most, I live in San Francisco just a mile from the Haight-Ashbury, and I came of age during that era so I most identify with it. I also look the part. [grin]
I like having a look that says something - says I'm an individual. Who wants to look as drab, dull, and uninteresting as a gray wall?
Bill
Now their's a wonderful looking hippie and I mean that as a compliment!
David(Who was in grade school at the time of the hippie but was longhaired during the late '70's until Dad told me cut it off)
Hey Bill,
Nice tie-died shirt and bandana combo, looks really sweet.
You should give Tai Fui some pointers on tie-dying.
It is good to see that you are proud to be an individual and express yourself freely through your clothing and appearance.
You are the best hippie i have ever seen. Not to mention the original hippie aswell, from that era.
Dude, I'm blushing. [grin] I do feel a man has to live his own life, though. It's pointless, and a waste of your life, to try to live somebody else's.
I just buy my tiedyes in a store on Haight Street, or sometimes I'll get one from a street fair vendor. Absalom makes his own, though, and I think he has given Tai Fui info on how to do it.
Bill
Well, the connection between the "hippie" stereotype and longhair seems obvious, but even if we think in most cases here about the 60ies and 70ies and San Frisco etc. even today many people feel connected to the "hippie" movements idea about love and peace and try to imitate it in styling and look today. Its more common than you might think as you may see on websites like www.hipgallery.com. there can many longhairs be found who consider themselves as new-era-hippies... and there are enough reasons , I think, questions like war and peace politics, global capitalism taking over etc. are today as important as they were in the 60ies and 70ies.
Leto
I've been called hippie a few times, and I'd rather not be associated with it. Despite my hair, beard, enjoyment of music 1968-1977, and even my VW (no, it's not a bus), there's not much else about me that says hippie. I don't dress the part, live it, or subscribe to any of the socio-economic values and ideas prevalent among the hippie crowd back then. Basically, I'm a middle right-leaning longhair that has a hard time convincing people he's not a hippie.
I say stop trying to convince them! People who are so reliant on stereotypes aren't worth the effort.
I used to be bothered by people thinking I was a druggie because of the hair. Now I know they're just shallow, boring people whose (incorrect) thoughts aren't worth my time.
I've been tagged with that label a time or two at work, but just in kidding around. How do I feel about it?? Couldn't care less one way or the other.
Jim
Keep your freak flag flying!
Peace and Love to you all
i think i already told you my longhair friend sam quit his job becuase his manager kept telling him "get a haircut hippie" id love to be labelled a hippie and so does he but the way its worded its clearly meant to be offensive or at least intolerant. so he siad 'screw you!' and left..........
i dont get called hippie yet.......im usually called "the guy with too much hair, im in the big hair stage ;)
i've had it a couple of times, but more people think i'm a goth. last week, when i was on my way to morrisons, some chav types shouted stuff at me from their car.
i'm probably in between hippy and metalhead
luke
n/t (whatever that means)
Only recently I have been called this alot, loads of my mates at college always call me a hippie now as a slur and then they knock trees with their fists and say quick save it all that sort of crap, and then they do the peace sign or v for victory they know I hate it.
Give the peace sign right back at them with a big smile - that should frustrate them
Hello Everyone,
As some may know it, I have hair way past my shoulders since 1979. In 1982, as long hair was really going out of style to make way for yuppie, punk, and new wave styles, I was often called "Hippie!" or "Jesus" by the jock types from Concordia University or McGill if I happened to walk west of St-Cathering. I also remember walking against the crowd while getting to the Metro, right after a hockey game when people were leaving the Forum after a Mtl Canadiens game. A bunch of loudmouths yelled HIPPY!!!
What is interesting is that as the nineties neared, the incidents diminished as longer hair became in style. Since about three years, I noticed more men sporting longer hair in Montreal, and I often walk the street with my hair loose, and never noticed anything. I often listen to my walkman while I walk the streets, so that may help a bit as well, and my asperger's syndrome does not allow me to notice any dirty looks, so I seem to live in a world where people are either neutral about my hair, or say compliments. At work and at the autism organisation I sometimes do volunteer work for, I do get compliments.
If "chav" styles invade Montreal, then I may have to get used to having drive-by cat-calls by roudy McGill students.
One weird thing, is that when I am on either the Campuses of McGill or Concordia, I never get cat-calls, and I even spot a few longhairs. The kind of students who cat-call are the jock-type beer-drinking football team types. They tend to be big guys with crewcuts who think they are important. I never was physically aggressed in Montreal on account of my hair, and the incidents only happen about three or four times in a year.
Have a nice day,
Georges
ahhh another aspergers......mines very mild, i understand most facial expressions and peoples emotions but i sometimes notice i do osmetihng silly when people look at me wierd or pause talking, most of my friends just think im being silly or am just a wierdo....thats fine by me. i used to be really bad when i was little tho...really hyper and my parents just thought i was just a spoilt brat until i was tested when i teacher recommended it (yes i was that bad)
hell man im called that everyday. I to also called jesus(when i dont shave). Hell thers nothing wrong with been called a hippie.
