Why such hatred toward the idea of cutting hair?

Darrin I can`t answer for everyone but I can explain my own thoughts.
Up to the age of 18 I grew up in a home that my father was military. The community was tight knit and no males had long hair. It never really crossed my mind what my thoughts were. For me this was reality and was accepted. My own late husband had a similar type of background. Many many times I heard nasty things about guys thinking of growing their hair when I was growing up. I will not repeat it because it hold no truft nor I believe in that.
This country girl moved to the city and today is surrounded by men who have long hair and are very attracted. I tend to have art friend and last year was invited to a art party which included over 60 people or so from all kinds of working backgrounds but mostly artist.
All those guys had ponytails including my male friend that I have known for at least 20 years. The other guest were TV personal, writers, etc and had short hair.

I think it is hard to break from that kind of background but if we are expose to the type of background I am in now women accept more. For me long hair on a man that is kept clean, trimmed draws my attention wondering what he is all about. What is the mystery for this guy to grow his hair etc.
People put so many labels on others. I know that I have worked hard and is known to be pretty acceptive of others and their choices now.
It is very much our flaw as human to judge others.

For me, naw, I`ll just save the money I would be spending on all that extra stuff and use it for cheesecake! We are few and far between, but we are proud! Karen Marie

Dear Karen Marie:

I know that the message is for Duke but I had to point out something.
what makes you so special Karen Marie is that you didn`t have a fear of showing your passion and it shows all over your web pages. Personally I admire you very much for your strength and openess in sharing your knowledge. Yes women like yourself are rare. I will tease you and say it wasn`t money that made you decide to save. It was something within you that was so strong and made you happy with your decision. I am sure that once in a while you buy fashion etc but you have no lack of confidence when it comes to your looks and how you present yourself.
I had a mentor that visited this site and others and had very long hair. All of sudden she decided to cut her hair and some people really resented her for it. She knew I would understand her position in life. I am very protective of my internet friend. I was sad because this was my mentor and then I realize that it is nice to have a mentor but the most important thing in life is to be happy with ourselves .

My grandmother would say when we are totally happy with our lives we can move mountains without problems that eveything that is awful flies off our backs and it doesn`t affect us. LIke that stupid talk show that never influence you one bit. No harm in asking you but you knew what you wanted and had no problem saying it. That is the powerful beauty within you. That what makes you one of those very rare and special women and believe me don`t ever allow someone to talk you into something that you don`t want to do or you will personally regret your decisions.

IN my make believe thoughts ( BArbie my favorite doll)I think that Barbie had it made with all her careers and yet she kept her hair. Barbie knows how to have fun, gets all the good looking guys, careers and never looks old with her hair and I think if we women come a tiny bit close to Barbie`s nature we wouldn`t have any problems lol. The idea behind Barbie was she could do anything and never stop dreaming.

Yes Gord long hair rocks. I will always agree to this. I just want you to respect women`s wishes.
Being bitter. Well I will take that as a compliment being that I always respected my husband`s wishes to never allow men on the internet to see my picture according to his rules, nor did i ever respected any men sending me nude stupid pictures of long hair women and think that was art, nor did i ever allow myself to be part of a long hair collections to some men. Gee Gord don`t be so personal. Just accept that. i have hight standards and was a very good wife. yOu want to insult me . Fine. Don`t expect me to agree with you when it comes to disrespecting women. I am not continuing with this. You posted something that should have been on the hair politics.

Actually Duke I strongly believe we should always look good for our partner.

The "duty" idea promoted by the media is a good point but it could be elabrated to say: the duty is disguised as
"attractive": actually the "duty" is to be FASHIONABLE.
I wonder if those who design fashion trends really care
about whether the users will look attractive, or if they`re just out to make money. Of course the users assume that just because it`s in style it`s attractive.

Hello, knock knock, is anyone in there?

I believe in the US there is a definate media skew towards getting women to spend much time & money trying to look good. Like it`s a women`s duty to be attractive. Women are continually encouraged to spend their hard earned money on beauty products, and beauty parlors. Women, from the time they are born are sold on all this materialistic stuff. We are bred to prioritize "good grooming" and consequently end up feeding a multimillion dollar cosmetics industry. I don`t chose to watch Maury`s hair butchering shows, because I don`t like the topic. I see at as yet another attempt to get women hooked on salon stylists, when they were really better off -- better looking and spending less money -- with their natural long hair. I don`t relate to Diane`s anger and I also don`t like when people use foul language to try to get their point across.

. Did any of the women say, "Oh man, I am so sick of this hair. Let`s just get rid of it. Cut it. Please!"?

Yes Jennifer often they say that they want a change and often they mention why. NO the shows are not making fun of women with long hair. It is about having a new look only.
Some men on the internet are upset and want to hate Maury or any organization that is involved in cutting hair because it goes against their fantasy of long hair. By spreading such hatred is also encouraging this thing that women shouldn`t have the right to do what they want with their hair. They will sugar coat it but it reallly comes down to the fact that they feel less long hair women on earth so they want to hate Maury. Nevermind that we women are human beings and should be able to make our decisions. Too bad Gordon topic wasn`t in the politic where it belonged.

Oh that what was the short version lol. I am assertive.
Long hair women have to be. lol

Diane, Not to be rude, but must you always write such long posts? Also, it seems to me that you are always trying to start an argument or somthing with your comments.