would two giys with shaved heads be mistaken for skinheads...
Feb 8th, 2007, 01:56 PM
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OMG Kate - I can't believe you wrote that! I'm sending Vin Diesel around to talk to you. Shaving your head has nothing to do with your sexual orientation. I know quite a few gays and they don't shave their heads. <
Feb 8th, 2007, 03:19 PM
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Shaved heads really do allude to 'skinhead' or.... fat, ignorant guys who drive big trucks, here in many parts of the US!! I wonder, everytime I see a younger man with a shaved head, if they even know what skinheads are?
They should.
They should.
Feb 8th, 2007, 04:14 PM
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Wow, such a lot of prejudice on display!
Shaved heads can mean a lot of things, depending on what they're combined with. A big chunky earring? Hmm, probably not a skin nor a fat, ignorant trucker. If you don't want to be taken for a skin, don't wear Doc Martens, rolled-up jeans, or an army-green nylon bomber jacket. Most skins don't actually have shaved heads these days anyways; they're more suede than skin.
But nearly every Englishman, or Londoner at least, or indeed cosmopolitans of any nationality, that I know has very close-cropped hair, almost a skin job, as well; and no one is confused. Their clothes place them. Wear a suit! Think "Moby", No, I don't know Moby, but I know people who look a bit Mobyish. No one has ever mistaken him or them for skins.
A close-cropped fellow in a nylon track suit is going to be taken anywhere in the UK for a chav, not a skin, and discriminated against all the more for it. I don't know if they have chavs in Rome, Prague, or Amsterdam.
Most of my gay friends are rather hairy and beardy these days. Bears are in. A baldy is more likely to be a heterosexual graphic designer than gay OR violent, or, uh, ignorant. And in my neck of the woods, the working-class guys in big pickups have long hair, not short.
A hat will definitely make people think you're on chemo.
Shaved heads can mean a lot of things, depending on what they're combined with. A big chunky earring? Hmm, probably not a skin nor a fat, ignorant trucker. If you don't want to be taken for a skin, don't wear Doc Martens, rolled-up jeans, or an army-green nylon bomber jacket. Most skins don't actually have shaved heads these days anyways; they're more suede than skin.
But nearly every Englishman, or Londoner at least, or indeed cosmopolitans of any nationality, that I know has very close-cropped hair, almost a skin job, as well; and no one is confused. Their clothes place them. Wear a suit! Think "Moby", No, I don't know Moby, but I know people who look a bit Mobyish. No one has ever mistaken him or them for skins.
A close-cropped fellow in a nylon track suit is going to be taken anywhere in the UK for a chav, not a skin, and discriminated against all the more for it. I don't know if they have chavs in Rome, Prague, or Amsterdam.
Most of my gay friends are rather hairy and beardy these days. Bears are in. A baldy is more likely to be a heterosexual graphic designer than gay OR violent, or, uh, ignorant. And in my neck of the woods, the working-class guys in big pickups have long hair, not short.
A hat will definitely make people think you're on chemo.
Feb 8th, 2007, 04:36 PM
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Many friends of mine here in Spain just shave their heads in summer because it's very hot No problem at all. Others are "folically challenged" and they shave their heads because it looks better than a few hairs here and there
No problem at all. Others are "folically challenged" and they shave their heads because it looks better than a few hairs here and there
Feb 8th, 2007, 06:43 PM
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"A close-cropped fellow in a nylon track suit is going to be taken anywhere in the UK for a chav, not a skin, and discriminated against all the more for it."
What's a chav - is that like Ali G - and why would you be discriminated against? Respect. :-B
What's a chav - is that like Ali G - and why would you be discriminated against? Respect. :-B
