I do worry about being a man with long hair when moving into the professional world, because I know some employers will look at me and make assumptions based on it. I think this is part of a bigger conversation about how shallow the professional world is. I get wanting you to wear smart clothes, that I can comply with, but going back to what said earlier I hate people being told what to do with their hair and/or their own bodies. I think it's ridiculous that people are expected to have certain hairstyles when all they are doing is sitting at a desk and talking over the phone. If someone's hair "distracts you", that's your problem, not theirs, maybe you just have a very short attention span.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
