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I've decided.
Driving home today during the school rush hour, I saw the usual bunch of people, including groups of blokes, all with their standard, pointy, gelled hair styles. And ALL of them seemed to be walking with a swagger, as if to convey a, 'Yes, we're hard, despite the fact we're only 16, so you'd better not mess with us, etc."
Compare that to the guy who served me previously at a bookstore in town. This guy had lower-back length, curly hair and he looked freaking awesome. I'd laugh at anyone to suggest he looked like a girl. (Putting the fact he had a goatee aside.)
I fail to understand how anyone could look at this dude's hair and not be impressed.
It depends on what matters to you...what people think of you, or what you know of yourself? (to paraphrase Lois McMaster Bujold).
I like long hair, I like long hair on myself, and I have long hair. If someone says or thinks that it is feminine or can't tell I'm a guy, so what? That doesn't change who or what I am.
Robert
ps: women tend not to have a problem recognizing my sex, which is fine with me. ;)
pps: like the joke about the teenaged male ballet dancer (...I spend hours surrounded by half naked girls!), I'm not complaining about the female attention my hair attracts.
Yes I know what you mean. Its always them guys with the gelled and spiked up bleached hair who strut around collars up.