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Hello Everyone,
A new trend seems to be developping: Schools are asking editors of history, arts, and science books, to have illustrations of long-haired men modified, so they conform with the school's grooming code. Books in school's libraries are being transformed to help project a cleancut image to the teaching of art and history.
In the county of Westonshire, UK, Westonshire Private Academy principal, Leon Wiltford ordered that male students have hair no longer than 2 cm, and that only girls can have longer hair. In order to remove all excuses for guys to grow their hair, Mr. Wiltford ordered that all library books featuring men with long hair from any period of history be removed until the illustrations of famous long-haired men are modified to conform to a clean cut culture that the school wants to foster in students.
All videos featuring long-haired men are to be removed from the audiovisual library until newly produced video's feature short-haired actors (no wigs). For example, Cromwell, will have the roundheads with shaved heads, and the Cavaliers with crewcuts which will be represented as the "long hair" of the Cavaliers. "If we have to film our won history movies ourselves, we will do it" says Mr. Wiltford in an interview on BBS News.
"History has to be presentable, and has to appeal to today's competitive world. In today's world there is no advantage for men wearing long hair, and history should prove that"
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
(This is total fiction, and any reference to living people is merely coincidental)
What a bunch of BS! Thats going a little to far I think. Come On! It's just HAIR!!!
I find this really upsetting... It's not whats on the outside that makes us, It's whats on the inside... I guess some people are too ignorant and narow minded to understand this...
It's not real dude, he put on the bottom that it's a work of fiction. :P
LMAO...
But the fact that it sucked in a number of people is what makes it a very good job indeed! Usually the very best satire is what's *just* inside the bounds of believeability.
Kudos on a masterwork, Georges.
Hello,
This kind of statement is somewhat ambiguous :)
Pro-longhair
(Interpret: I think some school authorities are going a little far putting their energies on repressing long hair. They have to realize that it's "only hair", and long hair, like short hair is a choice amongst many styles that makes life diverse and wonderful.
(Interpret: Some people should at what's inside the person before judging by his or her hairstyle... I guess some people are too ignorant and narrow-minded to understand this...and look beyond clothing and hairstyle to see the real person.
)
Anti-longhair interpretation.
(Interpret: I think some people with long hair are putting too much effort in wanting to keep their hair, they simply are not open to cutting it off like real men. Come on! It's just hair).
(Interpret: You do not need to have long hair to be someone, it's what's inside that counts. You can be a rocker, a metal fan, with short hair. You can be a medieval faire enthusiast, a computer geek, or even anyone else in any milieu. It's what's inside that matters. Some people are just too ignorant and too attached to their hair to understand this. )
As a person with 47 years of experience, I have had that one laied on me, to convince me to cut my hair, and just be a longhair deep inside. I am not vegetarian, and often I tell people, I eat meat and I am vegetarian deep inside. ;)
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
"... I am not vegetarian, and often I tell people, I eat meat and I am vegetarian deep inside. ;) ..."
Good one, Georges!! :)
--Rick
Hi Georges,
that's hilarious!
However, there is some truth in every humor. It's indeed hard to imagine that some members of our generation put their energies into forcing young kids into the Procrustes bed of arbitrary "short-haired decency". I haven't met any of these men in person, but I really wonder what makes them tick. Maybe, Berthold Brecht was right: "There is no worse reactionary than a failed revolutionary", and a German humorist wrote: "Die größten Kritiker de Elche waren früher selber welche" (The greatest criticists of mooses used to be mooses themselves).
Thanks for posting this story!
Hans-Uwe
I was totally believing that story before I got that line. Unfortunately, fiction been proven promote new ideas.
Right now, I'd be willing to bet there are kids in a school in England somewhere, who read this board, and are now scrambling to erase any reference to the site from their computer's internet browsing history in an effort to keep their own Mr. Wilford from ever seeing it.
hehehe
This might be the best thing I've seen in weeks. If not for the theme itself, the actual photo modified is such a hilarious example.
Gee, Georges... don't give school administrators here in this country any ideas! ;)
--Rick
They have laws in Taiwan forbidding schools from making hairstyle (and that includes hair length) restriction. However some school (especially the more prestigous ones) ignore this rule. But we can sue them if push comes to shove.
This quote made me chuckle. :D
On December 17, 2002, Popular Mechanics had a "scientific" article stating that Jesus Christ, had short hair. That research must have pleased a lot of fundamentalists, and parents who can no longer find the excuse that was used back in the sixties and seventies "Jesus had long hair". Personally I am not religious, but, I did find this piece of trash quite troubling, as an example of rewriting history.
I am including a picture of our "presentable" Saviour, and a link to the article. Maybe further research will prove He was clean shaven as well :)
Hi Georges,
that's an interesting hypothesis in this article - and it seems plausible that quite a few men in the Middle East looked more or less as depicted in this study. Well, maybe Judas even said to them "Of the three long-haired guys, it's the one that I'll kiss", because there may or may not have been (other?) nazarite preachers in the area. As you implied, in terms of re-writing history, this is probably not the last word...
Like most Christians, I find it quite irrelevant for my faith, though. The famous short-hair quotation in one of St. Paul's letters is clearly referring to the culture of the time, not to a moral imperative. So, it's not a problem for me if some, say, conservative protestants, prefer a short-haired picture, and some, say, Catholic (and perhaps Orthodox) fans of the Shroud of Turin, prefer a long-haired picture. That's o.k. with me - as long as they don't impose their rules on others. Then again, we also might invoke the old Jewish command "Thou shalt not make a likeness", and that certainly would end the discussion.
Interestingly, at one time, Christian missionaries in China found that they were more successful by adopting local clothing and styling, which included wearing their hair in a braided skullet - the idea was to "become everything to everybody" (another expression from one of St. Paul's letters).
I'd imagine that God has more important things to do than to regulate hair length ;-)
Greetings and happy growth to all humans of good will, whether they are believers, agnostics, or unbelievers, whether they prefer short or long hair :-)
Hans-Uwe
The likeness is only of an average man of Jesus' time, and the short hair is based on Paul's letter to the Corinthians. This is what it says in the article. They do also show older artistic depictions of Jesus with short hair and later ones with long hair, but the oldest (still only 11th century) has him with long hair, which doesn't really support their theory.
