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Hello all ! :) Just posting my 22 month growth update from a buzzcut. This is my 3rd time growing my hair out from a military buzzcut length. Coming along ! Take care all :)
Looks great! Have you been trimming along the way? Your ends look healthy.
Lookin' good there Patrick!
As a kid, I grew up with military-style buzzcuts at the beginning of every summer. My brothers and I were given no choice about it -- and this was during the mid - late 1960s! My dad being an old U S Navy guy, he believed it was "good" for us, and would get us ready for boot camp...
I totally HATED those damn buzzcuts (LOL)!!
I have tremendous respect for military vets -- even considered joining the U S Navy myself when I was a teenager; BUT.... I had endured enough of my dad's forced short haircuts. It was time to grow my hair out instead, my last buzzcut being when I was 14.
- Ken
I read that some members of the hyperboard had long hair, cut them and grow them again. So I wonder why you cut your hair? It looks like some guys hesitate to have long hair.
In some parts of the U.S. there is much social pressure against long hair in men.
Sometimes people are unsure what they want and have a difficult time deciding. You have to decide for yourself if long hair is for you. You can’t be influenced by others.
You can be influenced by others, but it's up to you whether you
listen to them or tell them go pound sand. I'm 66 years old and started growing my hair long in 1964. Ennded up telling many in school and at employment to go jump out the winkdow. Although looking around today i'm seeing more men with long hair than in previous years.
I think people in the younger generation have experienced so much economic up-heaval that we just do not have time for the high maintenance and high cost short cut style and are politely declining it. I might be biased in my views because I am a pretty traditional indigenous person, but I think cultural awareness is growing of long hair being historically masculine. I also think with the decline of extreme religiosity in protestantism and roman catholicism that people might be literally letting down their hair. I notice hispanic men are growing their hair longer. I do not know if this is because they are getting back in touch with their indigenous roots or not, but I suspect it is. Hopefully we see less militarism out of whites in the future and more of an embracing of their own cultural histories, which are largely Germanic and Celtic-both groups traditionally embraced long hair as masculine. When I see a white guy with long hair, I destress because I know that he has the capacity to embrace that part of my cultures and he is more than likely not a white supremecist. So, you can imagine why I might react this way being something of a visible minority. Any way, keep on growing and make the world safe for less bigotry.
