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try fifty three years of longhair, its much easier now to just live with your long main , can you imagin what the brothers had to withstand in the fiftys and sixtys hunted and taunted by total straingers like animals . at times hiding your hair under a hat or shorthaired wig , denied employment housing advancement . If anyone thinks of going over to the otherside please think of us who went before you who suffered the slings and attempted hair cutting . it takes a special MAN with guts and true love for his main . Because how do you rape a man [you cut his hair off and feminize his face!to all the longhaired brothers i salute you G. Singh
Ah ha you found us here and keep it growing!
Cheers,
John.B
I'm with ya!! Welcome.
Just to let you know... Ever since I was a very young boy, I always admired seeing men who had the guts to have long hair! Even while having to listen to my dad rant and rage about how much he hated seeing long hair on men (he was in the military, and believed until the day he died that all men should wear their hair short), you never know who might be standing silently in the midst of anti-longhair taunts, secretly wishing to have the strength to someday be the longhair they truly wish to be...
Thanks to people like you, you gave a young boy hope, --- just by not giving into the pressure to conform to the stereotypical male short-haired image that was constantly being presented to the world at one time.
I greatly admire what you said here, --- and agree with you 100%!!!
- Ken in San Francisco
1970 was my first year in High School. Chorus and Phys Ed were the only places I interacted with upperclassmen. No longhair took Phys ED or didn't participate. By the whole back row of chorus had long haired men- for some it was an easy grade. They all wore short haired wigs but being the last class of the day they usually had a ponytail hanging out the back-after all who looks behind the back row. Seniors were banned from having their senior picture published in the yearbook if they showed up with longhair-for some reason this did not apply to juniors and sophs. My neighbor-who I envied- was one of them who wore his long hair proudly-graduated with honors and was left out of the yearbook. The next year the policy changed and the hair "rules" were dropped.
This still happens where I live, which is terrible, there are certain places where I wear my hair back in a hat, not out of embarassment but out of sense, I would rather hide my hair afterall than have it cut off and get beaten or worse
Wow! Where do you live? I can't think of anywhere like that anymore.
In the very south of Ireland in a a city called Cork, my friend was put in intensive care last year and a few months ago a group of my friends including girls who were with the lads were hospitalized by a big gang of youths, there is some hatred for anyone who looks different here and also a problem with teenagers, sober or not, they seem to have little care for others lives. Well it's safe enough in the city but in most of the towns and suburbs you have to be careful, there's a terrible mob mentality here
(I should also point out the attacks I mentioned and any attacks I've ever recieved were unprovoked incidents occuring only because of long hair/looking different)