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I notice that anytime a picture of a man with long hair is posted on the internet for a news story, inevitably within a few comments someone posts "he needs a haircut"
the news story on Nicholas Cage's son Weston Cage today was an example, I was reading a forum topic on it, someone posted his picture, and the very next post was something like "that douche needs a haircut", and nobody thought twice about that post, like that is a perfectly acceptable way to be prejudiced....
it is done so nonchalantly and without anyone questioning, it is no wonder that it is drilled into the public at whole and girls growing up so that it becomes an acceptable prejudice, and not thinking it to be unacceptable becomes the weird point of view
just sad about society and it's lack of encouragement for individualism
People who call other people 'douches' online are missing a few pieces of a normal social personality and will probably never get to mate with a member of their own species. We should try to regard them with compassion.
Also, Weston Cage has great hair. Hopefully, his will stick around longer than his father's.
It's social conditioning. Long hair just isn't "in" right now and people (a lot of them anyway) are shallow and obnoxious.
The hypocrisy is amusing however (in a sad sort of way)... As a child you hear a lot of "Dare to be different" and "If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?" talk; but then once you get a little older and decide, "Hey, I think I'll stop artificially removing my hair and allow it grow out to a more natural length", all of a sudden you're being ridiculed for not conforming and fitting in with the masses, often by the very same people who inspired you towards individuality while you were growing up! It's quite maddening. :P
I don't know how long you've been growing your hair, but just try and take it all in stride. It was a little bit difficult for me at first and I was pretty self-conscious about it, but I'm about 2 years in now and have gotten pretty used to the "You need a haircut" business. I mean, if I made it to 2 years without cracking under pressure, what makes these people think I'll suddenly rush off to the barber when *they* say something nasty about it?
Anyway, long hair is NOT feminine on men, it is natural. Short hair is fine too, whatever makes people happy, but they shouldn't try and enforce it on everyone. Historically long hair on men has been seen as a sign of masculinity, I remember reading that captured slaves in ancient times had their heads shaved to humiliate them and make them appear different from their countrymen who were still free. Even in the animal kingdom, look at lions (males have flowing manes), peacocks (males have big colorful feather arrangements) etc.
Yes, I've noticed that too when you read responses to an article and, heaven forbid,if there is a longhaired guy involved!Some moron is always going to bring that point up about the guy's hair even though it has nothing to do with the story at hand.Its amazing how much society is programmed but thankfully there are some of us who resisted the brainwash.I think what is it to them if the guy wants longhair.Does it affect their lives because the guy has a great head of hair.Hmmmmm!I still think it boils down to plain jealousy.
Mark
That is society today: It still remains acceptable to speak ill of long hairs whereas other things such as religion and ethnicity are now out of bounds. Life will move on eventually.
Do we need to target pictures of short haired people and add "This guy needs to grow his hair" to all of them? It might start a trend!
haha nice idea, of course it would confuse the heck out of everyone
People online post all sorts of stupid things. Frankly I'm impressed the person spelled "douche" correctly and not "duesh", as I frequently see from the spelling impaired. It basically comes down to people on the internet will say whatever they want, no matter how stupid, or even factually incorrect it may be. I often read people's comments just for a good laugh. I think nothing is sacred on the internet. You said ethnicity and religion are off limits. I guess you don't read a lot of youtube comments?
Glinka
I agree 100%.
if it was a photo of a woman they would not have said that.
incidentally, I heard that he got beat up in Hollywood the other day. I wonder if it had to do with his long hair
anyone have any info on that?
I heard that Weston tried to order something at a restaurant and his trainer wouldn't let him. So he tried to roundhouse kick his trainer and his trainer took him down and punched him in the head a lot. Weston seemed to keep trying to attack his trainer, so his trainer kept punching him in the face. According to witnesses, Weston seemed to be on drugs of some sort. There's a video out there of it too.
Who is Weston?
Weston Cage, Nic Cage's son
Boy, do I EVER hear you. A pathetic lot are they all. They live in their own jails of their own creation and go throughout life never having really lived. One trouble however......they make life HELL for many a Person who dares to be different, but of course, only so if that person allows them to do this.
Actually the guy with long hair isn't a douche in need of a haircut, the insecure commentator is a douche for thinking it's okay to call others douches because you don't happen to like the way they look. They're a lot of anti-longhair douches posting vile meaningless drivel out there in the cyber world and blogospere.
Maybe he was calling him a douche because of his actions and not his hair. Weston Cage, the long haired person he was calling a douche, does seem like a bit of a douche based on his actions and not his hair. It frankly makes the rest of us longhairs look bad.