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Last night on the Fox TV show "Cops", a four year old boy after being lost was united with his longhair father. When upon reunification the boy and his dad hugged, the boy reached past his father's neck on both sides with his short arms fully extended, and with both of his small hands he firmly gripped, and clung onto, his father's mane. It was very touching.
The thought also crossed my mind, "Now THERE'S a future LONGHAIR!"
Bill
Hair freedom for all without someone wanting to cut theirs because of being made fun of, this is what we want to eradicate.
If someone wants to have their head shaved, let them. If someone wants to grow their hair long, let them. If someone wants to do anything they want to it, it is up to them.
On this board when you categorize yourselves as ''longhairs'' and say that your a freak for life, it just makes you go back into the corner, where you don't want to be.
So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE lets stop putting people with long hair into a box and let them be a human, not a ''longhair'' or any other word for them!
Also, having hair is a natural thing, it is neither a hobby nor a sport, so lets start talking about it as if it is normal, not a weird pass-time.
Hope i don't sound too harsh, this is what i feel.
On a lighter note, my update will be in 11 days!
Can't wait :D
DaPs
No, you have that wrong on two counts. First, it IS exactly where we want to be. And second, we felt cornered when we were not allowed to be ourselves. We feel free now.
When we say we are freaks, we mean "freak" in the hippie sense of the word, not the circus sense of the word. The meanings of "freak" and "hippie" are in that sense identical. In the 1960s, only people who disliked hippies used the term "hippie". The term used by hippies themselves was "freaks". We are perfectly okay nowadays with the expression "hippie" of course, but "freak" warms the heart a bit more for those of my generation.
And "freak flag" is slang for "long hair"....
Oh, but many of us LIKE being like we are, and we LIKE putting a label on the exalted longhair sense of being! And we are NOT in a box either. Not in a corner. We have NOT sold out to the system! We are free!
We look forward to it, and to your eventual longhairedness. After you've grown your mane, it will be interesting to see how your feelings have shifted on all this. More often than not, they do. There's a saying around here that more growth occurs under the scalp than above it, on the path to becoming a longhair.
A man can throw on a wig and look like a longhair, but he cannot BE a longhair. He'd be missing the "under the scalp" growth. Becoming a longhair is a long process, a 24/7 commitment down a path littered by one antagonist after another. If it's not in a man's soul to be a longhair, it is a journey that he will not likely make.
Keep it growin' and flowin',
Bill
...and longhairs have never had it so good. It took a long time to
get to where we are today; I don't think all longhairs fully appreciate that...
especially the younger generation. Why just 10 years ago things were so very different and wearing very short buzz cuts was all the rage.
Men in general have never been so "in touch" with themselves as they are today.
Guys used to be so "one dimensional macho" and that was it. But now
more men--gay or straight--are willing to appreciate the differences that make each one of us unique.
And on this Board I have noticed that guys in general are more willing
to accept other guys just as they are. That is one of the greatest things to come out of this Men's Long Hair Hyperboard.
aww,that's touching!!! ^_^