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From your own personal experience, who would you say was more supportive of Men wearing longer hair? least supportive?
women with very short haircuts like pixies, medium short like a chin length Bob, women with shoulder length hair, women with mid-back length or longer?
Not that I get many negative comments, but I have never had a negative from a longer haired woman. In fact, I'd say the negative comments from women have all come from their demographic rather than hair length...older, more conservative appearing and behaving women.
Disregarding cultural attitudes, positive to very positive comments from women with lengths from 0mm to floor length. Apparent sexual orientation doesn't seem to factor either.
YMMV.
I would mention that in my civil war group I encounter alot of
older, more conservative women and have never gotten a
negative comment. But then being 60 years old helps.
Depends on the woman.
Her hair length has nothing to do with it.
I would second that. In fact, sometimes a woman who has unconventional short hair may be more supportive. But not necessarily!
Doug: this is a silly redundant question. PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE who cares what other people think short or long man or woman. You let your hair grow for one reason and one reason only you liked the look on others and it gave you ideas that you liked, so you took a chance and missed a few regular haircuts. You asked questions and you used google and other search engines for help where a question you might have asked didn't get answered to your satisfaction. You managed to put up with anywhere from gentle teasing (to down right ass hat bullies) probably because the teaser was jealous that you have the balls and the shmoltz to go against the trend.
I was up in Portland last Wednesday stopped in at an afternoon gay bar on Stark Street. Lots of gay men up there with long hair one dude tried to instruct me on how he wanted me to wash my hair more often. I bought him a drink and told him to buzz off that I have my regiment and today was the day that I had previously planned to condition my hair with coconut oil. I am just about through with the first month of my 4th year of no haircuts. The only person that I ever really told off was the one who thought that I should donate my long hair to someone to make a wig I looked at here with the evil eye and yes I can give the evil eye very well it is bye the bye the same one that I give to the religionist christians who try to tell me that they love the sinner hate the sin I can't resist asking them to point out their sky god the next time he comes to town she turned red and slunk away.
I don't think you can generalize about this sort of thing, really. My first long-term relationship with a woman-- way back in the 1970s, BTW-- was with a woman who had super short hair. Mine was well below my shoulders. She loved my hair long.
I think a woman's interests in men has nothing to do with their own fashion choices. I've read surveys that said maybe 50% of women like long hair on men and, thus, half of them don't. But I think the only way you'll know is to ask.
He said he is growing his hair back out after having it short and used to wear it past his shoulders. it was closely-cropped, but now is below the ears.
when I asked why he cut it his response was due to his ex-girlfriend and then I asked if her hair was long or short and he stated "long".
obviously not all long haired women like guys with anything other than short crops or buzzed even if their hair is mid-back or longer and believe it or not I have met a few ladies, usually in their 20's with short hair that like longer hair on guys so if you start dating a lady and she suggests a haircut that is probably the time to break up the relationship.
My mom's got shoulder length hair and my sister has like mid back length or so. My mom likes my hair and my sister likes it now, though she didn't like it at first much. My friends that are girls all have at least shoulder length hair, and most of them are cool with it. Haven't really had a girlfriend yet, so can't say there.
The least supportive (in fact downright hostile) comments I've had have been from short-haired women - two of them middle-aged hairdressers who ganged up on me at a party in a friend's house. I didn't want to offend my friend, so I had to be very diplomatic when responsding.
In January, while waiting to go to a concert, a group of (short-haired) women noticed the end of my braid hanging out below my jacket. They decided that my hair was too nice for a man and that I should cut it all off and donate it to a children's cancer charity. They got really offended when I said they could grow their hair for ten years and donate it to charity if they wanted, but that I would prefer to leave my hair as it was. Apparently I'm selfish and mean-spirited (!)
The most supportive comments have been from some young guys in one of the clubs I play badminton with. I mentioned that I was thinking of trimming my hair to around waist length because knee-length is not particularly practical at my level in the sport, but they all told me not to, that it looked badass. That put a smile on my face.