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So what's the big deal about the mullet? Is it a way for longhairs to make fun of their own kind? Dosen't make sence to me. Who gives a frig that not ALL the hair on your head is not the same length? Is there a "Hair God" that sets the standard? I think not. Longhairs that put down the mullet sound kinda hypocritacal to me.
But then if the hair is all the same length, there will always be someone who will complain about the "triangle head".
Unlike Alan, I cannot seem to retrieve stuff from the archives, or I'd just reference what I posted on here a few months back saying I agree with what you say.
I said, in effect, that longhairs with mullets are our brothers, and that a mullet is a very practical hair style for a longhair who has to lean forward while doing physical work because it doesn't involve hair falling in his face all day long. I added that the comments about these longhairs from people who've never had a physical job in their lives that required they bend over were about as charming as comments from similar twits who disrespect plumbers at work for showing crack.
I'll add that a lot of guys with mullets to my eye are very attractive!
I can now relate. Short in front, long in back where a major part of the mane's bulk comes from can be a totally valid approach to preventing a problem which is now starting to annoy me at about eleven months along. However, as I am not yet willing to forego a naturally correct growth for my hair, I am banking on the hair in front eventually becoming long enough to reach a ponytail tie -- or at least long enough to be well entrained in other nearby hair which will reach a ponytail -- which should also be a solution to the problem. I might consider a mullet for myself if the problem of it getting in my eyes becomes truly intractable because the growth in front stalls out before being long enough to control adequately. As I have long really resented having to cut any of my hair for certain deeply-held internal philosophical reasons, I would still resent and avoid having to do this. (Ah, yes...learning about the interesting practical implications of having long hair...much more than those of having a moderately large beard. But I don't think any are insurmountable.)
I would second that even if my perspective is perhaps a bit different from Bill's. Certainly mullet-wearers get most of the benefits of having a mane even if they have, often for thoroughly practical reasons, had to compromise a bit in how to grow it. But just as growing long hair is itself a morally neutral act, I fail to see how this compromise can have any ethical implications that sometimes seem to be imputed to it.
Society in general likes to decry us natural-form longhairs as "dirty hippies, outlaw bikers and criminals" even if perhaps most of us are respectably employed as professionals in many technical fields, artists, and even businessmen. Natural-form longhairs (along with society in general) like to decry mullet-wearers as "redneck trailer trash" even if most of those "rednecks" are in fact very decent, honest, hard-working people. (Many mullet-wearers are in fact white-collar professionals -- not "redneck" at all.) Is there really any moral difference between these two forms of denunciation? Could we eventually become our own worst enemies through infighting? Mullet-wearers might be "different" from us natural-form longhairs, but after all are WE not "different" enough from the rest of society to get a certain amount of persecution from it? Should we not embrace and support mullet-wearers as fellow longhairs facing persecution from a common enemy, rather than simply ADDING to their problems?
Just my $0.02 worth on something I have noticed once in a while here, which makes no sense to me. It seems to me that if we want a strong position in fighting the discrimination we face, we must avoid discriminating against "different" longhairs ourselves.
Mullets, if that is what a sholo is called these days, were quite popular on 80's Pop stars like Bono, The Fix, 2or3 of Duran Duran's members and Howard Jones. These were NOT American Rednecks, these guys were from Europe and UK. Then the Achey Brakey guy comes along and WHAM!-it becomes the Hairstyle of guys on Springer and shirtless suspects on "COPS".
Let's see … I have thousands of bookmarks saved on my computer; over two hundred bookmarks from the-light.com alone! I thought that it was always better to be prepared, because the Site Search Index is frequently down!
Of all the open mindedness on this board, I am always surprised at the ridicule of the mullet.
Yeah, I agree, even though I am growing everything out this time around. I prefer the look of the natural form, compared to what I had for the past 10 years. And, after it's grown out, it's here to stay for the rest of my life (or for as long as I can keep it, which looks like it may be for quite a while - not developing the usual balding areas)...
-J
P.S. yes, the mullet can be considered a backwards undercut or one that has been rotated 90 degrees.
I don't know when this became the "White Trash" fasion tragedy or got nicknamed after a fish? Please help me understand the fish name. Is it pronouced "Myoolay" in French? :D
As a teen in the 80s who was allready playing/teaching/working in music, I remember when this was a fasionable style called a Surfer's Cut (I live/d in a beach/coastal community).
I don't know when this became the "White Trash" fasion tragedy or got nicknamed after a fish? Please help me understand the fish name. Is it pronouced "Myoolay" in French? :D
As a teen in the 80s who was allready playing/teaching/working in music, I remember when this was a fasionable style called a Surfer's Cut (I live/d in a beach/coastal community).
I don't know when this became the "White Trash" fasion tragedy or got nicknamed after a fish!Please help me understand the fish name. Is it pronouced "Myoolay" in French? :D
As a teen in the 80s who was allready playing/teaching/working in music, I remember when this was a fasionable style called a Surfer's Cut (I live/d in a beach/coastal community).