new thread
As has been posted here by others a news story broke
by the New York Times and others in the last couple
of days that, horror of horrors, 80% of the hair donated
to locks of love ends up in the trash. The New York Times
and others ran the story the last couple of days but
some on here posted the same information years ago.
(Hair Religion posted this same thing what three years ago?)
File this under the NYT being a tad slow in their reporting.
Yeah, but you probably won't hear much more about this.
The problem is that the damage has been done and everywhere I go I get the questions (and suggestions) about donating it to kids with cancer...'cause what the hell do I need hair for, right?
I've also been hearing from people (mostly young) saying that they were growing their hair (or at least thought about it) just for the purpose of donating it (again just this last weekend).
When you hear stuff like that you realize that the advertising/propaganda line spread by this organization has fairly well saturated the society it operates in and will probably keep getting passed along for decades to come....it's almost tragic when you realize that it's mostly a load of crap.
It's good to hear from you!
I'm pleased that LoL finally got demolished by the national press. Maybe we should be a bit disingenuous and pretend we didn't know until it hit the NYT, e.g. "Well, I would donate it, but that article in the NY Times put me right off"! Nobody would guess that we had known all this for years, so it should be safe to take that tack. Then the gullible ones will think that it must be true because it was in the NY Times, even if they never read it.
OTOH, nobody ever asks me to donate my hair anyway. My wife says it is because I have too many split ends, so maybe split ends are good for something after all!
I bet lots of young men who say they grow their hair for this motive want to grow their hair anyhow, and find this a defensie strategy against the oppression against long hair in men.
So let's encourage, deflate the urban myth about long hair, and invite them into the freedom of us long haired men who need no excuse.
A better rap is that we are for peace and freedom.
Cal