Long hair: The final political frontier
Behavin’.Serious commentators are right to balk at the notion of judging candidates by their appearance. It diverts attention from the candidate’s ideas and policies, the stuff that actually matters. But hair is sometimes more than a matter of dumb fashion, as the sociologist Anthony Synnott writes: “The debate over hair symbolism is both ancient and complex, and applies not only to gender but also to politics.”
So now that it’s one of the criteria for selecting a candidate to run for president of the United States, it’s time we discussed hair, and the lack of it on our politicians’ heads.
There are plenty of minorities still woefully under-represented in politics, but none more so than men who choose to wear their hair long or funky. The fact that men with follicular abundance don’t have anyone to represent them in government, or even reading the news on TV, is hardly a civil rights issue. But like gay men often have before them, intelligent men who wish to wear a long or funky hairstyle sometimes have to sacrifice an important part of their identity to be taken seriously in establishment circles.
RT @: Ronnie: Vinny's haircut is a mixture between a mullet, a mohawk, and a faux hawk. I don't even know what to call that.
RT @: Ronnie: Vinny's haircut is a mixture between a mullet, a mohawk, and a faux hawk. I don't even know what to call that.
RT @: Ronnie: Vinny's haircut is a mixture between a mullet, a mohawk, and a faux hawk. I don't even know what to call that.
RT @: Ronnie: Vinny's haircut is a mixture between a mullet, a mohawk, and a faux hawk. I don't even know what to call that.
RT @: Ronnie: Vinny's haircut is a mixture between a mullet, a mohawk, and a faux hawk. I don't even know what to call that.
The phrase refers to a (presumably male) haircut that looks as though it's been pasted onto the candidate's head and groomed extensively. It's clippered and blowdried — buzzin' and behavin'. Serious commentators are right to balk at the notion of
However, when hair chameleon Rihanna recently stepped out with yet another new look - a questionable, bleached blonde mullet reminiscent of vintage Rod Stewart - it seems the girl who never misses a trend missed a trick: the invisible haircut.
(If not in real life itself.)) Forget the expensive special effects though – more importantly, what about Sam Worthington's haircut? It's amazing: the sort of mullet that an 80s footballer would have been proud to call his own.
