To think that long hair on young boys.......

[Haahoostory]

Is unfair on the child. It dangles in their face and gets in their way and must be really annoying for them. With girls you can clip it back or tie it up in pretty styles so no problem at all. It is the parents imposing their tastes and choices on the child - rather like when toddlers have pierced ears. Older boys with long hair absolutely fine - as they have chosen to wear it that way, but toddlers and younger boys no.

[TheOneWithTheHair]

Well I'm in Manchester Quadrangle so I think it's probably common enough.

[crikeybill]

I live in a part of south london where it seems all the little boys have shaven heads and wear tracksuits.

I have had to admit to myself that I have purposefully kept my DS hair long. He is only 14 months but its quite long at the back and springs up into little curls. Its lovely. The more I am asked when I am cutting it the more I am determined to let it grow. DH couldnt give a shit, his very full head of hair is still in a 90's short ravers ponytail lol

[wisden]

3faced Your post makes you sound like a twat and heres why: to call small children (or indeed older children) creepy because of their long hair is quite frankly, creepy in itself. Why would an adult call a child creepy based on their hairstyle? It makes you look creepy, as does the suggestion that any boy who has long is secretly longing for a daughter. I would say more but I think I have used up my daily quota of the word creepy.

[TheOneWithTheHair]

Some of us with long haired boys have dds too by the way 3faced.

[ShirleyRots]

haha wisden.









creepy.

[wisden]

Is it just me but after typing the word creepy out so many times it starts to look wrong?

[PickledFanjoCat]

Fuck me I feel creeped.

This thread is making me feel sad, I am up the duff with DS2.

I am going to make one a Creepy Girl-Boy with the gay and the other a short spiky Chav.

[Fakebook]

Why can't you put hair bands and hair scrunchies in boys hair? I had a friend who used to tie up her son's hair with a hair rubber band.

[minouminou]

I've used clips in DS' hair on occasions.
Isn't there a range of clips with footballs and the like on them?

I'm having difficulty staying away from this! On my phone here!

[wisden]

DS2 wears bobbles and clips in his hair (might as well make use of them, DD hates them) but he has only worn them for the last few months. How long till he catches the Gay? Or becomes creepy? Or, at 2, is he already creepy? damn that creepy word

[ShirleyRots]

I mean, really. What sort of person calls a little child creepy?

a creepy person with the creepy giving creepster.

You're right wisden,

creeeeeeeeepppppyyyyyyyy

[wisden]

Only a creepy person would call a child creepy. Applying their own standards to toddlers. T'is creepy.

[wisden]

That came out wrong - applyng their own prejudices and fucked up thinking to toddlers is what I meant. Creeeeeeppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyy

[BupcakesAndHaunting]

My DS has got long hair AND wears Hello Kitty slippers.

How creepy/gaymo is that on a scale of 1 to 10?

[wisden]

Bupcakes My DS has long hair, fairy slippers and a princess rucksack - I think mine will catch the gay before yours. Or if he doesn't catch the gay then he will definitely catch the creepy.

[TheOneWithTheHair]

I've got a picture of ds2 wearing dds pink Stephanie wig from LazyTown with his own blond hair showing at the bottom and singing into a pink, sparkly microphone. He was singing I'm a Barbie Girl. Do you think I need to be worried?

[ShirleyRots]

That would be a 20 Buppy.

DS2 had blonde curls and a play kitchen. Not only could he have burned his hair off with the imaginary cooker , but it traspires that he was a creepy gay girlboy.

SADFACE

[MedusaIsHavingABadHairDay]

My two sons have had everything from a very short cut (didn't like it) to shoulder length and beyond. One has just had his shoulder length massive blonde afro cut short and I miss it!

We once french plaited DS1's hair when he was 14 and it was very long and very blonde.. he looked gorgeous Definitely not gay either ...

Hair's hair.. you cut it, it grows! Really not something to get your knickers in a twist about!

However I once got DD2's bum length hair cut into a bob and she sulked for months. She's 18 now and still keeps it waist length..spiral curls.. lucky sod!

[witchbiatch]

What a bitchy thread! I have just read through this and there is a gang of bullies on it. 3faced said it gives her the CREEPS and did not call anyone CREEPY. Oh and folk I am so glad you dont teach my children. Cant believe you are a teacher and a bully. What a bunch of cahs you are the lot of you.

[wisden]

You're right witch it is a bitchy thread. That some people can look at a child and judge that child to be creepy is awful, (what normal sane person uses the word creepy when talking about a childs hairstyle? Seriously, tell me, who does that?) that some people slag off children because of their hairstyles is, well, there are no words. That some people will assume a child is pretentious/a chav/creepy/a thug purely based on their haircut is very bitchy.

Oh, is that not what you meant?

[greenhill]

Massive generalisations going on ^^

Some people have just posted what their DC's hair looks like and made no judgement about any one else's DC.

But some people do seem to think that AIBU is asking for an opinion, possibly because of the use of a question mark at the end of the statement "am I being unreasonable?".

They then feel entitled to post their equally reasonable or unreasonable opinion

[HeadfirstForHalos]

Okaaaay... I have two sons, one with a chav cut (his hair grows straight up light a pineapple top and looks weird when it starts to grow), one with a creepy cut, long and golden ringlets, but...

I also have two dds, one with a very short bob, and one with very long layered hair.

Where the fuck do I fit in with some of these theories?

Anyone who bases a child's character by their haircut is a prick, that goes for those slagging off the very short cut on boys too.

[PiousPrat]

Now now wisden there is no point getting competitive with Buppers. you are both going to lose. My 13 month old DS has long blonde hair that is regularly in bobbles and slides, makes a beeline for the play kitchen at every toddler group, has his own dustpan and brush set and, and! his Godless mother is a lesbian.

She has obviously been infecting him with Teh Gay since he was mere days old. Poor mite didn't stand a chance still, it will be fabulous to have someone to go shopping with when he gets older.

[purplehouse]

lol at DS being infected with the gay

I would watch that he doesn't start eating or biting the slides and bobbles though.