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Well, I've visited the BUZZboard and even made a few posts. For the most part the responses were honest and respectful. From reading the posts, though, I'm definitely picking up some sort of hair fetish with getting your hair buzzed off. Some of them seem to 'get off' on that (am I wrong?). They post many pictures of military buzzcuts and ACTUALLY have a camera in a barbershop to watch people getting their hair cut!! That seems a bit extreme to me.
Sure we post pics of our long hair; but I have yet to see pics here of us styling or blow-drying (etc.) our hair. From what I've read there, it sounds like a desire (fetish) to control people to me (i.e. military style -- do what I say without question!!). It's not just a site for short hair lovers. It's more like a 'we want everyone to have short hair -- there is NO other way!' kind of site (with the exception of some of the people who post there). They definitely don't seem to share the cool attitude of this board (to each his/her own). What do y'all think about this?
Hey, we could put up a web cam where people could watch hair grow! It might be a great hit with insomniacs.
It's interesting too that they REALLY don't want longhairs to tell other longhairs about their site. They actually went to the trouble to configure their web server so if a link brings someone in from this site, it gives Victor's front page instead of their own site.
You're right -- I just tested the link. Definitely, not very friendly people. Anyway, here's the URL -- just paste it into your location bar:
http://www.dexglobal.com/thcs/buzzboard/index.html
Grow on.
Here's the link posted as a link if anyone wants to try it out.
Most of the people there are very nice. Some of them, however, carry the fetish to very unhealthy extremes. Sometimes someone will post a picture a a long haired boy and ask what the people there think should be done with it. One man occasionally posts back asking them to send the kid to HIM so he can cut his hair. He once continued his fantasy describing the things he could do to make the experience as emotionally painful as possible to the kid ... and explained how much he enjoyed doing that. Most of the people there condemned this, but the usual suspects of pseudo-military types were encouraging him. If I knew who he was, my goal in life would be to keep him as far away from kids as possible.
The extreme element have their own board at http://members2.boardhost.com/haircut_reserve/ In their eyes, a man's masculinity is defined by the length of his hair (the psychological implications of this are obvious, I'll leave it to the psych types here to elaborate if they wish). Their fantasies of control go much farther ... even describing the way to get a firm grip on the man's / boy's head while giving the haircut. I think of this crew as the S&M group; I'm not alone - I've seen others say this on the Buzzboard.
And if you're wondering why I read the board, its simple ... "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
Then save a copy of this message into YOUR OWN computer and click the link from YOUR OWN copy.
Some words of warning if you go from your own copy:
Many of these links are relative, so if you want to go back to the HyperBoard, then click the link at the top.
Also, since you are not in Victor's wonderful site but rather at your own computer, clicking the link at the bottom WILL let you free to go to the infamous BuzzBoard instead of Victor's wonderful site!
How much testing have you done to that theory? I note that if you substitute victorengel.com for the-light.com (which would give the browser a different referrer) you achieve the same result. I conclude, therefore, that they are not singling out longhairs but are, instead, redirecting links other than from their own site.
Of course, if they go by IP, victorengel.com would work exactly the same as the-light.com, since they are synonymous.
I'd bet you were seeing your web browser cache when you revisited with the victorengel domain. With a browser untainted by such cache, the redirect did not happen in my case. When I looked at this URL - http://www.dexglobal.com/.htaccess - I found this text:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} http://the-light.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://the-light.com
I take that to mean they'd prefer people from here not go over there, though a few of our users do post over there and seem to be accepted by the bulk of their community. Maybe something less cryptic from their site owner, such as an e-mail to you, or an elaboration in their quite-well-written FAQ, would better express what their wishes are, than the above file. MOST users are well-behaved guests when on someone else's site, but to be such they need to know what their host's expectations are.
Yep! It works. Thanks.
Just as I thought: http://victorengel.com/mens/messages/… can get you to the BuzzBoard while http://the-light.com/mens/messages/… can't!
...catch one of us and try to convert!!!!!!
On the other hand ...
I *HAVE* seen posts here from people who believe that having long hair means doing exactly what they're doing and nothing else. There have been posts from people talking about their shoulder length long hair receiving replies that they can't consider it long until it's past the shoulders. Others imply there's something wrong with hair that isn't cut all one length.
It would be nice if there was really support for all the way you say, but the board still has a way to go on tolerance. Long is a relative term. It's long when the wearer says it is, and it's styled correctly if the wearer likes the way he looks.
Do you think that none of the users here "get off" on looking at long hair? I am afraid you would be wrong in that assumption. It's just different aspect of a fascination related to hair. Different people experience to different degrees, regardless of their particular angle.