Venango Christian High School - Saga Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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Student Forum. TO GROW OR NOT LONG HAIR IS APPEALING TO TEENAGE GIRLS” Those conservatives opposed to long hair on boys, can holler loud and long but the people they'll win over are those with equally narrow minds. These adults who feel that long hair is a sign of the fall of American masculinity, who say that boys want long hair because they are suffering from some deep seeded psychological desires to be girls are ignoring human nature. It is a human urge not a feminine urge to be a part of society, to belong to a group and to be attractive to the members of the opposite sex. Longer hair for boys is a social standard, whether the patriarchs of our country like it or not! And no matter how disgusting long hair is to the P.T.A., it is very appealing to teenage girls. There are exceptions those boys with shoulder length hair aren't appealing to anybody except each other, and they aren't conforming to any social standard but creating their own. The youthful long hairs of our society do understand that it is a THERE IS NOTHING A GIRL HATES MORE THAN GOING OUT WITH A SISSIFIED MALE Our contemporary times have brought advanced technology and thinking, but there is one flaw in this age of miracles. The defect lies within the so-called American male; (it is doubtful if he stir has a claim to that name). Although our world is moving forward at a rapid pace, he insists on returning to the days of King Arthur and the Round Table with his other century hair styles. If this isn't a deterioration of masculinity then I don't know what is. Even though some women today have rather short hair, long hair is still associated with femininity and should remain there. And if boys think their long hair is attractive to the female, they're slipping. There's nothing a girl hates more than going out with a sissified male and that's exactly what long hair makes him. Could it be that this surge of long haired boys is a surrender to female Jomination in what was once his world? These long-haired individuals n;a.v TO GROW Marta Sauage natural tendency for the adult portion of society to rebel against accepted social standards. In fact, I can see it now. Many, many years from now, when long hair has become the established norm, some group of singers will, for a gimmick, cut off their bangs! The fad will spread and teenage boys everywhere will expose their foreheads! Enraged high school principals will stand at school doors armed, not with scissors but with glue and hair, frantically covering every bold forehead that dares enter. Charlotte Connery feel that only the older generation (the ones who aren't really with it!) reject the fad. But that isn't entirely true. Boys with any pride at all in their sex wouldn't be caught dead with long hair; and there are a lot more of them than you think. Look around and see for yourself. It's a very small minority of boys who wear their hair hanging down their necks. As long as the male wants to retain his claim to masculinity he must continue to reject long hair. 3