new thread
I posted a response to the earlier thread, but I'm not sure many people read it.
Anyhow in response to all the negative feedback people get about having long hair,
here's my perspective.
imagine if long haired men were predominent in society and we made fun of shorthairs. Over thousands of years men in different cultures have had socially acceptable long hair. Take the Chinese for example...they had long braids all the way down to their butts. Or look at Native Americans. Those guys look good with long hair and nobody razzes them. It's not that long haired guys are freakishly different...it's
just a cultural cycle and maybe in 20 or 30 years long hair will be back in fashion, and we won't be that different anymore. Yes, I have gotten razzed...but I don't take it seriously and I don't think anybody else should and make a big deal about how society is gunning for long hairs and how we're all so different...cuz, we're not really. Nothing is new under the sun.
You're quite right. I read the thread but since I already stated my opinion about it I didn't reply to it. Regardless if they come back in fashion or not then short haired guys will be discrimnated. When will it all end?
Long hair on men hasn't been predominant since the early to mid 1800's.Even in the 60's and 70's it wasn't accepted by mainstream society.I don't think men were hassled over it until WWI.One problem with longhair in the 60's is that it is now associated with hippies,drugs,protesters and that sort of nonconformist idea.It hasn't lost that stigma.In some ways long hair is more acceptable now than it was in the 60's.I see longhairs working in places that you wouldn't have been able to back then.
Arrick