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Defining onself by attacking others or by making others out to be the enemy, the inferiors, the immorals, the idiots, is as old as Cain and Abel. We do not have to be down on short-haired men in order to feel good about long hair. We do react when people assume that because hair is long that we do drugs and cannot hold jobs. In fact, several members of this board jumped on someone recently who associated his own drugging, drinking days with long hair. Short hair does not equal mass murderer. These guys on the short hair board are narrow and outrageous. Why mimick them?
Robert
good point... i might add that the best response if the haircut party should post here would be no response at all. we do not need to prove to them that we are better... just ourselves. they devalue their own opinions by the way they choose to express themselves.
Viking,
You sure sound angry. Is there actually a Haircut Wimps Board? If so, why do you bother visiting it? Maybe you were just being sarcastic about negative comments you've received.
"I'll put them on their rears" proves more about how you have problems with your temper than about how "they" are mistaken.
I agree with the other comments that anti-social, violent behavior isn't limited or correlated with any particular hair style. Actually, your own reaction (beat up people who disagree with you) seems pretty much violent and anti-social if you ask me.
I like your sentiment that you won't let anyone else tell you what you should do with your own life, as long as you aren't bothering them. So, why not live and let live?
- Chris
I am aware that the haircut reserves site has been deleted. For those of you who had seen the photos of the young long haired dude being buzzed to the scalp, I am quite sure those photos were posed and the young man actually consented to the haircut for whatever reason. (Most likely monetary or fantasy.) Some guys actually grow their hair long to have someone shear it all off. It may seem strange to most of you, but there really are guys who do this! I've said it before and I'll say it again, I am against FORCED haircuts when the guy being shorn truely doesn't want a haircut. Personally, I am not into the forced scene at all. There is a yahoo club called forced haircuts, and there are quite a few posts from guys who want their heads shaved bald. These could be for real or they could be fantasy. Who knows? I just thought I would make you guys aware of this short hair/shaving fetish.
Viking and all,
The biggest problem I found with the Haircut Reserves and the Mach 3 board was the close minded groupthink I found there. Those guys are so set in their ways and so insecure about them that they will not tolerate and views which diverge from theirs.
They won't even allow a reasoned debate on the subject. In a short while I fully expect all of the messages which we posted over there to be deleted from that hyperboard once its owner gets online to check it. That sort of "one view only" stance is inherently defensive and inherently weak. It would be a real shame to see such a thing happen over here.
I was a bit put off by the reaction of some of the guys on this board to the views expressed by the guys over on the Haircut Reserves board. You guys seem to have missed the point that the freedoms we enjoy to express our opinions are the same as they theirs. Demand that theirs be reduced and you are also demanding that ours be too.
Yes, I find their views to be immature, needlessly offensive, and wrong. Yet they have every right to express them. They cross over that line however when they espouse attacking other individuals to force their views upon them. So long as they just stick to trading juvenile and obnoxious messages between themselves then they should be left alone.
At the least we should be secure enough in our masculinity and with our Longhair that we can tolerate their difference of opinion. If any of the short hair buzzboyz wants to come over here for a reasoned and rational debate then I would welcome it. We are not so weak to have to hide from different ideas. That doesn't mean we have to agree with them nor tolerate individuals who post hate speech.
But to declare your intolerance of any postings by any short haired man before they even take place is a bit much. It sounds exactly like the close minded and short sighted groupthink that the buzzboyz have fallen into. I don't think we need to repeat their mistakes here.
Sincerely,
Madoc
i concur. starting flame wars at that board is an invitation to having the same here. any reasonable open mind will be able to sniff out their intolerant narrow-mindedness without any one of us pointing it out.