To not understand why people dislike buzz cuts on little boys?

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I did not realise this was a thing until I buzzed my 3 year olds hair in lockdown (had tried and failed to cut it so had to buzz).
My mother hated it, friends made comments. I then googled and people say it's trashy or something 🤷‍♀️
I thought it was cute and he is asking me to do it again because longer hair annoys him.
It was also way easier to bath/dry as he hates hair wash etc.

I want to do it again but so people thing it looks trashy/chavy whatever?

I know I shouldn't care what others think but I do 😬

People will say you shouldn’t judge but realistically, I’ve had 3dds in primary and they would talk about the naughty boys and their names. Usually 3 per class. I didn’t know what they looked like. First class assembly I could pick out the naughty ones from how they looked and their hair cut was a part of that.

If they've got fair hair they can look oddly bald, but it really suits some boys.

We tried it on DS once (also has autism and hates hair cuts!) He hated it, so not done it since, but if he had liked it we would have kept going.

What other people think is far less important than what he likes and wants.

Geez, which I hadn’t mentioned the word ‘thuggish’ now. Can’t believe there’s so many posters who would judge a 3 year old’s haircut like that.

Probably the same people who assume overweight people are lazy, or ask “what was she wearing” in sexual assault cases.

My sons loved a buzz cut when they were younger. Nobody ever commented or said they looked like thugs. People must have been less judgemental in those days.
Probably too busy getting on with their own lives to judge anyone else

I think because in my mind it’s synonymous with people who think men/boys should look a certain way i.e. short hair.

Agree snobbish faux concern. Ime it is the floppy haired kids, with the they can do no wrong parents, that are a problem

The one and only time that DH took the kids to the hairdresser they came back with buzz cuts, it was awful they looked like thugs.

I'd much rather see a young boy with a buzz cut than the utterly ridiculous fashion for long curls on young boys that seems to abound currently!

I don’t think it looks very attractive, quite harsh looking in fact. I have 3 boys, never gave any of them a buzz cut.

He’s your child, do what suits the two of you. But I agree it doesn’t look good.

DS (6) hates having his hair cut. Will toleratee using the clippers. I do it on a no.8 which is shorter than I'd really like it but means it doesn't have to be done too often. It doesn't look good when it's as short as no. 8.

I'm assuming a buzz cut means ever shorter? Like a no. 2 or something? I do think it looks awful. Can't comprehend anyone thinking it looks cute.

Like some previous posters, my son has autism and will only let me cut his hair. So it’s a buzz cut or it will grow for ever more. It’s not on the very shortest setting and my parents hate it but frankly I can’t put him (and me) through the trauma of a hairdresser

I’m in the “it looks thuggy/chavvy” camp.

I think little boys look cute with short one length hair. Especially when it's grown out a little bit.

Poverty, army, Far Right thugs, skinhead...headlice.. Not great associations, no. It’s not a ‘style’, it’s a brutal shorn look on a 3 year old!!

I hate the way they look but I wouldn't say anything to you.

I remember lads getting told off at school.for having their hair "too short" 🤷‍♀️ I think it looks clean and smart.

I would never say it but I far prefer a buzz cut to long hair on a little boy. I'm not a huge fan of letting a boy's hair grow very long.

Quite a few schools ban it as a hairstyle which is absolutely bonkers to me.

As for three year olds looking "thuggish"

They're awful and scream chav, ned or thug in waiting.

I doubt that you'd be friends with any of these judgy posters in real life OP., so please ignore the negativity!

Providing you're not dressing your DS in prison uniform or hessian sacking, then I'm sure he looks great!

I don’t think it looks good. It’s quite thuggish and chavvy imo.

That being said, I would not mention anything to my friend if she did that to her DS. I might to a family member…

I did it to my boys once.. and it looked awful... I didn't realise how big their heads were until they had hardly any hair.. they both looked like blonde bowling balls Never again.
I think some boys can carry it off, but most do look better with hair!

I work with children who have severe autism and most of the boys do have buzz cuts for practical reasons, I always feel a little sad when they first get it done but it soon grows.

Oh i hate a buzzcut on little boys..so harsh!

My eldest likes a short back and sides (6 going on 60) but my little one has a lovely mop of blonde hair! It had a life of its own until he was about 18 months, like a mini Boris now its more of a page boy style and he looks like an actual angel from heaven shame hes the devil incarnate.

I’m not keen for my own boys (and they weren’t ever in to it) but do what you and your son like. No one else’s opinion matters.