“Sorry, that must have been written by a long haired hippy.”
Wrong, and a rather stupid attempt to be dismissive and insulting.
“After working in the machine shop industry for a couple of decades I can assure you that whoever wrote that paragraph is full of BS.”
I wrote that paragraph. The only person who is what you described, “full of BS,” because you totally failed to comprehend or disregarded how the paragraph already noted there are some exceptions for the modern military and a limited number of other occupations. Of course there are occupations in today’s world who have adopted safety requirements requiring either short hair or long hair worn short under protective covers. There were such occupations centuries ago. However, you should note that European and American soldiers in the 18th Century and early 19th Century were required by law to wear there hair long in a queue. While men’s hairstyles have since changed for a variety of reasons, linking hair length to masculinity remains just as much a fool’s errand today as it was then. Trying to insultingly equate short hair with being necessarily the only mark of a real working man versus long hair could have gotten you killed in a duel in those days. Today, you can be dismissed as a boorish ignoramus by persisting in such idiocy.
So I guess you want to have a duel at 30 paces then?
Long hair belongs on women and not men, that is unless they are girly men that work feminine jobs. It is dangerous and unsanitary.
A woman was killed in a lathe accident at a local university a couple of years ago. Her ponytail got caught and it damned near tore her head off.
I worked around Swiss screw machines in my youth. After my first day I cut my hair back nice and short.
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Why are you arguing the finer points of masculinity with a guy named “Biff”?
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