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Anyone see that "Queer Eye" or whatever they call themselves on tv last night where they talked that married guy into cutting off his long hair?
I have never watched that show, but read of it all the time here. I have a "gut" feeling however that whoever it was WANTED shorter hair anyway, or was offered so much $$$$$$$ to be on the show and make the audience happy and the show more "dramatic" for the viewer that it was known before the show amongst the cast and producer just what was going to happen. All part of "Show Business." (Only my opinion/guess because I don't know for sure what kind of arrangements are made.) But for most, $$$$$$$ will do about anything!
I'm fairly certain that we're all aware that people will do what they want to do, wether it be "for a change", or "for some type of payoff", or for whatever reason. The real tragedy of this episode's "straight guy" is that he really had one hell-of-a beautiful head of long, blonde, magnificent hair....and now he doesn't. The end.
would be if he didn't cut his hair just to suit you.
I never saw the show............so he couldn't possibly have cut his hair to suit me. I don't know him..........he doesn't know me. Hope you had a joyous Thanksgiving yesterday. All the best-
My point exactly: Why is it a shame for a stranger to have cut his hair?
You're absolutely right! (But when.........IF this is the case, $$$$$$$ causes an individual to do something that normally they never would it is really too bad.) But then again it was THEIR choice. Again, you are right! Thanks for writing.
They made him slook like a dweeb.
The NEVER should have shaved his beard.
He sounded like he was ready for a change with the hair. I hated to see it go, but understood.
But the beard also...
With that thin upper lip... he should have kept the beard and the 'stache!
Good for you for not watching the crap called commercial television. I was beginning to wonder if I'm the only one here who has never seen that show. I don't even know what night it's on because I just don't watch commercial tv. I quit years ago.
Absalom was over here and we saw the beginning of it. When the guy said he was tired of his look, we just moaned, agreed we didn't want to watch the buildup and the mutilation itself, and changed the channel. We flipped by the channel near the end of the show for a brief look and the chopped guy had gone from a man with character to a man that was hideous. What they never broadcast, of course, is how many of these men surely regret the act later. Their mission is all about glorifying the larger (read "ratings") short haired social group, not about how those longhairs or others in our smaller longhair social group feel.
The offense of course is that the man is moved from one social group to another and they are glorifying that. Few would feel any offense had they trimmed his hair but in a style that left him a longhair, just as few are concerned when a woman is made over and her hair goes from long to short, because shorthaired women and longhaired women are not seen as being in different social groups.
Imagine "Extreme Makeover" turning someone from black to white, and then cooing over how much better they look now that they are white. That would be offensive to black people, just as what we saw last night was offensive to longhairs, whether the subject wanted the makeover or not. Reality show or not, a TV program is never there for the feelings of the actors, it is always there for the feelings of the viewers, and disrespecting a social group in a public forum is nasty. It is nasty because it spawns discrimination in employment and in other settings, and it can spawn violence, against the minority group in question.
I have a huge problem with your post. You have assumed that he didn't want the haircut and that he "surely" hated it the next day in order to make YOUR point. It is more like his getting a haircut makes YOU uncomfortable because you are not sophisticated enough to seperate what you see on television with your own life.
Many people do not place importance or on their hair or anyone else's hair. It is just hair to some.
As for this social class nonsense, I understand there is a unspoken or unwritten brotherhood between some long men. I hate to think that merely having long hair elevates you to a social status. Hair is NOT skin color and does not imply race. If someone wants to leave the brotherhood, then they should be allowed to leave. Especially since it is merely a brotherhood of hair.
What I noticed from watching the episode is how he opened up and seemed much happier after the haircut. There were even comments to support this from him and his friends.
There can be NO television or movies that do not offend some group of people. I doubt the producers are singling out long haired men or trying to send a message. The show does not always makeover long haired men. There have been episodes where no haircut occurs.
Relax.....enjoy your hair, and don't watch makeover shows in the future. Just as people are free to grow their hair long, they are free to cut it all off if they choose. I think you are the one being narrow minded and offensive.
Er, actually, it does.
Opps...I stand corrected. However, I believe it is a stronger arguement for skin color defining ethnicity rather than hair.
Or bone structure, skull shape, eye colour, facial hair (or not)..... ;-)
Does Rasta mean anything?
Last time i looked , part of their racial and ethnic belives require them to have long hair.
"Anyone see that "Queer Eye" or whatever they call themselves on tv last night where they talked that married guy into cutting off his long hair?"
I don't think they 'talked him into' cutting his hair. If I recall, he was more than willing to part with his long hair (which he washed with bar soap and STILL looked better than mine), but he was less willing to completely cut off his beard. Different people, different priorities.
Personally, I think he looked fine with shorter hair, but he also looked good with longer hair (it didn't even look bad).
The newest episode last night, however, featured a married guy who had a hair piece. This cost him $3,000 a year and decided it was time to get rid of the piece and just accept his baldness. They cut his remaining hair really short (but didn't shave him bald, unfortuanetely... he could've been a Lex look-alike), and I thought he looked much better. He was "himself". This of course, does not apply to everyone, but fit what HE wanted more.
I rather like the show most of the time.
A guy cut his hair, so what. I understand that for some of us growing long hair can be an internal change, but you have to realize that there are long haired people who don't experience this. Trying to cast people into different "social groups" as I heard one person say, is going overboard. And hell... if he wanted to keep his hair in the first place why did he allow himself to go on one of these shows in the first place? I think you guys can be more attached to people's hair than they themselves are.
it's my firm belief that make-over shows are NOT intent on making their subject look better, but simply making a drastic change from what they once where(drastic=ratings), so cutting off the hair is an easy pay-off in this goal.
stop the shows, by not watching them, thus contributing to the loss of their ratings. viv la longhair! ^_^
Looks like my original reply was deleted. I can't remember what I said, so I have no idea why!
It probably got eaten by the server during the time it was trashing files. You posted it during that time. So don't even think of taking it personal. :-)
That's good to know
It was kind of a bummer that it was cut so much, but if he was happy and his family was happy that is what counts. He did have great hair though. I wondered if it was dyed since he had gray in his beard, but not necessarily. If anyone saw one of the first episodes, all they did was give the guy with long hair a different cut, but left it long. This showed that they don't always cut off the hair. I wouldn't have minded them doing something more like that since he did have really good hair. He was OK with the whole thing, though, so that is was counts. In reality, if anyone noticed, that guy didn't really need much help, his act was pretty together. He had a terrific house, a good looking family, and he had his music. (Even though they seem to cut more often, the show does seem to have a higher than average number of guys with long hair.)