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This was years ago when I used to attend church.
Every time he passed the collection basket he would be me the most nasty looks. Never got to know me and what I really stood for. Never gave
me a chance.
Even today do not assume that everyone is so accepting. We live in a dangerous world and longhairs can find themselves just as much at risk as any other minority.
I am not suggesting that you should be afraid but it's always a good idea
to be cautious and careful about the situations you find yourself in.
Then give the old gimp a worse one. there is nothing worse than the aged who expect us to be grateful and then emulate their view of the world.
Hello Luckskind,
Very good advice. Interstingly, the worst time I have had was when I was in the bible-belt a few months ago in Texas where it seemed like there was a church on every corner.. and let me tell you...it was a very dis-heartening experience.
Cheers,
Max
I've got to agree there. While for the most part - most seem to be accepting of my hair, there is the occasional fool that will ruin it. One of my former school teachers constantly nagged on me. Comments like 'I can't belive in this day and age that men still have long hair - how effeminate' and the constant bewildered looks he'd give me every time I'd try to speak to him. Condescending jack off he was. This was my sociology teacher by the way, who should be describing negative cultural stereotypes as just that - negative!
There will always be people in society to dissaprove of anything atypical, which sucks massively for something that is a natural process anyway, hair growth. I haven't suffered any major persecution - with my field leaning towards physiotherapy, I can only hope that such an environment would be more sympathetic to me having long hair.
As far as I see it though, if it doesn't affect my work or study - then It doesn't really matter. But thats just me. Gives me more of an opportunity to tell the ones who frown upon it to go jam it :P
this sounds an awful lot like the mindset of some here in the sunshine state.
I lived in Texas years ago and had hair past the shoulders and never had the hassle from people that I do here.
I even have had young people, including femalse who asked me "When are you gonna cut your hair?" and this was after i got a trim. their idea of a haircut was a supershort haircut akin to a flattop, fade, or buzzcut.
Always wise to be cautious in this screwed up world we live in today!
Although the most obvious, I don't always just assume it's my hair that people are objecting to. It could be my size, my attitude, or maybe just the ugly sticking in their craw!
And I will say, as a member of a fairly large conservative church, that I have yet to received a negative comment, other than the requisite looks that I get, and the questions about "why" I'm growing my hair.
It's happen to me in the past.
when my hair was shoulder length or longer I got dirty looks from certain people. when it was short I didn't get the looks.