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I will see my Dad today and he will tell me that I should cut my hair as he always has since I was a kid. I'll just look him in the eye as always and say.... Dad I am what I am , I love you, and Happy Father's Day! Anyone else have a similar deal with your Dad? Just curious to see if most Dad's are like mine and never give up trying to change you! To all you longhaired Dad's out there Cheers, Have a great day! Eat a Peach For Peace! RedTail Wolf
Alot of the 'old school' men have this mentality about long hair. My grandfather said i would look alot better with short hair, he dislikes long hair on guys. My dad doesn't hate my hair but i know that he prefers me with a short, conservative hairstyle. On the otherhand my mum is cool with my hair.
Maybe that's because they were in the war and all the soldiers were forced to have short hair. Or maybe it is simply because they were brought up with their parents influence, obviously having a negative attitude towards long hair, and passing their values and beliefs onto them. Dont forget people were very conservative in the pre1930s,40s,50s and early 60s. But they can't distill it onto us, hehehe. Oh and if your wondering that my dad wasne;t old enough to be in the war, well im not talking about WW2,lol, civil war. There, i just wrote a page of meaningless crap :)
So, your grandpa was in WWII and your father was in a civil war?
Did I get that right?
If so, which civilw war was that if you don't mind me asking?
Can't have been the English Civil War of 1642 as half of them were longhairs!
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My social theory fwiw about why middle aged guys don't like long hair is that most of this group have spent decades working for private sector companies that are or were managed by people who believed that all the employees had to be on a "team," i.e. "team players" and one interpretation of that was that everyone had to look alike. Conformity was encouraged; anything that smacked of individualism was deemed bad because it would hinder regimentalizing the staff and spread. I think some enlightened companies today realize that things that make people different indicate some degree of creativity; not a bunch of yes men, and that means they will have creative approaches to solving problems. This is one reason why you find longhairs in newer companies, usually in the technology sector where there are more startups, and less in older industries.
Older men are also in the habit of looking at anything unusual and immediately trying to understand it by trying to see some practical or logical reason for it. Finding nothing, they don't like it. They don't understand that there isn't always a practical or logical reason for something; that it's just something that's fun to do. In other words, if you explained your long hair by saying that you just got one of the lead roles in a major motion picture and the part calls for long hair and shooting starts in 6 months, then they'd understand and it would be totally okay, because you have long hair in order to make lots of money. To them that that would make sense and be okay. But just because you're having fun and you like it? To them, that does not compute.
yeah dude my dad hassles me for a haircut all the time now, and its in the awkward stage. my mom however has seemed to just given up on it lol.
My dad was a US Marine and is generally on the conservative side of things, but has never said anything to me about hair length, except last month when I got some cut, wondering why. At it's longest, he said it looked much better that when I used to keep it short.
