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Okay I just want to start off by briefly saying that I have had short hair for most of my life. I am still growing my hair out. I do not have any problems with anyone who decides that THEY LIKE having their hair short, it is their hair and they should be able to wear it in whatever length they choose. I hear many topics on this board regarding discrimination against long hairs, however many of you are just as quick to discriminate short hairs. By saying short hair is boreing etc. Why? One comment in which really annoyed me was "To each to his own". We are all human arent we, so in that sence "we are to our own". So what is the problem with respecting a short haired person if you are a long haired person or visa versa.
I personally think both looks are great on either male or female.
I await your comments
No offense but I got to disagree absoulte shi* pardon my French. But I have nerver heard so much! Long hairs would most likely start off with short hair too when growing it god sakes man!
Simon,
First of all I think your being very rude. Secondly I dont think you understand what I am trying to say here. Let me break it down for you. Obviously long haired people started out with short hair. But what i am saying is that people who currently have long hair are making stupid comments about people who never want to have long hair and like haveing short hair and will leave their hair short.
So what i am saying is you should respect a persons desision if they want to remain with shor hair. What is wrong with that.
Keith
Keith,
I hear what you are saying. I think that the vast majority of the people on this board share your position but might say it a number of different ways. Basically, I have found this community (been here for 4 years) to be very accepting of most people from most places in life.
Sometimes people say things out of a reaction. Reactive moments are usually not our best ones. So, since most of us who have long hair have had to deal with society's reactions to us, it is not surprising that occassionally a longhair here might say something a little less than respectful of shorthaired people.
On the whole, though, I think most of the guys here bear no ill-will toward others who want short hair. Just don't tell me how to wear mine!
Which, by the way, is my prepared response to anyone who asks "why do you have long hair?" I respond with: why do you wear your hair that way? Or with: For the same reason that you wear yours that way--because it's the way I want to wear my hair.
Robert
Thanks much appriciated by that comment
Keith
In general, this board does not 'put down' men who choose
to wear their hair short.
Everyone wants to be accepted...it's just a part of our human nature.
I think if anyone came to this Board and posted something like:
"I HATE SHORTHAIRED GUYS!" Most Members here would jump all
over them.
I HATE SHORTHAIRED GUYS!!!!!!!!!!
Hehehehehehe!
Thank you for all your comments, I am glad that you can see past a persons hair length or lack of it.
Keith
PS: I don't instictivly mean that all board members feel this way i am sure that many of you respect long hair and short hair, however some of you clearly have a bigotry against short hairs. No offense intended.
Keith
I don’t personally recall anyone here being mean-spirited or hateful toward people with short hair. I’ve been on this board for many years (basically since its beginning) and don’t recall anyone ever really saying they don’t like people with short hair. Since most men have short hair, I’m sure all of us have friends and relatives with short hair that we love.
I believe the only comments you’ll see are directed at people with short hair who are prejudiced against those of us who choose to have long hair. Take the example that Thee Longhaired Gal gave the other day about the religious fanatic who hates longhairs. Sure, many of us here will talk about people like him. That doesn’t mean, however, that we hate them. Nor can we or do we discriminate against such people.
I think we all know that a longhair can be discriminated against. I’ve experienced it first-hand. I’ve even experienced things such as not getting a salesman to even so much as help me when I was looking to buy a new car in late 2002. But can a shorthair be discriminated against? I don’t really think so, as short hair is accepted by society in general.
I’ve been to the buzzboard a number of times. Hard as it may be to believe, even guys with buzzes and shaved heads experience what we longhairs do. I personally know a few people that post over there, one who is quite rabid about buzzes and shaved heads. I have nothing against him, and he, like many on that board (though none will actually confess), has nothing against us longhairs. Yeah, I’ll get the “girly” comments from them, but it’s all in jest and just for fun. In turn, I also tease them about the rigors of daily shaving and what brand of wax (i.e. Turtle Wax, Simonize, etc.) they prefer to keep their heads polished!
I find the people on this board to be, for the most part, very tolerant of others, even amongst ourselves. As for me, I’m less tolerant to a person who wants Cobain hair (which is in my opinion NOT long hair) or an undercut (which in my opinion is the UGLIEST cut known to man) or a mullet than I am to a person who wants a shaved head. I’m that way because I think fad cuts like the undercut (I really can’t stand the undercut) and the mullet are poor representations of not only the person who sports such a ‘do, but are poor representations of the longhair community in general.
In short (pun intended), I don’t think anyone here has anything against people who choose to have short hair. I certainly don’t. If I did, I’d lose most of my friends!
I hate to rain on your parade but me and my undercut are still
here...hee...hee. And loving every minute of it.
But yes, many of my friends have short hair or shaved heads.
Its the person inside that counts!
Hey, if you're happy with it, ultimately that is what matters most. It's not my business how you choose to have your hair. If you like it, keep it that way. What I think doesn't matter!
You're right, ultimately, it's the person inside that counts. I have friends with undercuts, shaved heads, even mohawks. It's their hair and their decision, and they're good people.
I agree wholeheartedly, even if there have been no posts as harsh as one might percieve from the description it has happened at least on a small degree but starting now and forthright it must be ceased and desisted before ever rearing it's prejudiced head. YAY! I used big words! Now on another note, I have decided I am going to stay a short haired person. I just look better with it. :-/ But I shall stay with as a person who just enjoys this site and supports the freedom of hair. Plus, I like the name I have here, Marc From Phoenixville. Though it's been changed in honour of the Inspector General von Steuben who saved our army at Valley Forge to Marc von Phoenixville. Oh, the off topic rambling of it all!
I think it's a fair statement that few longhairs feel negatively toward short haired men. MOST men have short hair, so all of us surely have a lot of friends who have short hair.
We may MAKE JOKES about short haired men, but the negative comments I've seen among longhairs are generally in jest. This activity is just one that they engage in to affirm longhair culture.
Also, in "longhair space" such as some web groups or a longhair gathering, men with short hair may not be welcomed by some people. That is merely because members of our group, as is the case with all social groups, sometimes want to be among our own kind. Most people sense that and give a group its space, but when you are a very small minority the small percentage of clueless from the larger community may be enough to nevertheless outnumber your own crowd. In such cases, members of a group may have to bar the door merely to have their group be primarily "them".
Nearly all my male friends have short hair, but that doesn't mean I have to change the way I feel about them just because they are shorthairs. They are my mates, it's the personality that counts.
What the phrase "To each his own" actually means is that everyone has their own preferences as to what they like for themself. I'm not sure what you think it means, but I think you must be under some misapprehension as to what I meant by it. I have nothing against people with short hair in general, but I don't like crew cuts, aka buzz cuts. There is a good reason for that. This style of hair was (and is, to the extent they still exist) associated with skinheads. This group of people are known for neo-nazism, racial violence, football (aka soccer) violence, and downright gratuitous violence. If there is anything positive about skinheads, I am unaware of it.Now, of course, recent fashions and miltary requirements in some countries mean that there are people with this hairstyle who do not consider themselves skinheads but nevertheless sport that style. I don't go around insulting them (not least because some of them frighten me!). I am more likely to reflect silently that I don't like their hair. Would I hire someone with a crewcut? Maybe, but if I thought that the person might really be a skinhead, then no. Hiring racists and neo-nazis is generally a bad plan, unless you enjoy being sued. This is largely hypothetical, as I am a sole proprietor and I have no employees.
