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A male character has hair that is longer than is typical among individuals of his gender. Another character doesn't like this. He or she will lash out at the long-haired individual, mocking him, putting him down, perhaps comparing him to a girl, and likely telling him to cut his hair, possibly using an injunction like "Get a haircut, you darn hippie!" Or, said critic will be talking behind the character's back disparaging him or similar men in general, possibly ranting about how longhairs and hippies will be the end of decent society as we know it. Whether a longhair will cave in to the pressure and get a more conventional haircut or stick by his style choice will depend on the story. In some cases, the character will be shown undergoing the Important Haircut that brings his appearance into line with society's expectations. In certain cases, the haircut will be coerced, resulting in a Traumatic Haircut that may engender further plot-driving consequences. Hair style and length have been gender markers since time immemorial. With certain exceptions, short hair has traditionally been seen as masculine and long hair as feminine in the West. By The '50s, a clean, professional haircut was the expected 'do for a put-together man. However, this is nowadays a mostly Discredited Trope, as long-haired men have become more socially accepted since the late 20th century. And of course, the Long-Haired Pretty Boy has always scoffed at the notion that long hair is unmanly. This is a sister trope to Facial Scruff, where someone dislikes the idea of a man sporting facial hair. Compare Bald Head of Toughness, which can be considered a more extreme version of this trope; Boyish Short Hair, where a female character's haircut marks her out as mannish or tomboyish, and Long Hair Is Feminine, where long hair is considered a hallmark of womanhood. Likewise, this is a Sub-Trope of Men Are Tough, as short hair is usually more practical and less "delicate" than long hair. Contrast Barbarian Long Hair, where long hair is a marker of a member of a primeval warrior society. |
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Horimiya: Miyamura cuts his hair after his relationship with Hori goes public, not wanting Hori to be ostracized for dating "the weirdo with the long hair". Hori, who liked him better with long hair, is less than pleased at this development. | |
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Matilda: The brutal headmistress Miss Trunchbull dislikes long hair on boys (as well as pigtails on girls). To show her dislike, she holds one long-haired boy in the air by his hair. | |
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Implied in the film If, in which the boys in a strict boarding school are frequently berated for having long hair. | |
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In Remember the Titans, long-haired Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass shows up to try out for the football team. After seeing how far he can throw the ball, Coach Yoast lets him join — on one condition. Cut to Sunshine in front of a mirror, slightly annoyed at his shorter (barely shoulder-length) hair. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Mother Simpson", there is a flashback to 1969 when Homer's parents have the TV on during the Super Bowl. Player Joe Namath appears with flowing, bushy sideburns that impress Mona and stoke in her a wish to take part in the rebelliousness of the era; Abe, on the other hand, whines: "Look at them sideburns! He looks like a girl!" He continues: "Now, Johnny Unitas - there's a haircut you could set your watch to!" (Closeup of Unitas with a crew cut/flattop-type style). | |
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Parks and Recreation: Played for laughs, Ron deeply manly character and believes that the only acceptable hairstyles a man or boy can wear are high and tight, crew cuts, and buzz cuts. When put in charge of a boy's basketball team, he makes them follow the "Ron Swanson Pyramid of Greatness" and gives all the boys short-length haircuts. | |
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The Dursleys of Harry Potter are extremely conservative, and disapprove of Harry's Messy Hair, feeling it makes him look like a delinquent. There's mention of one incident where Aunt Petunia gets annoyed at how his haircuts never go short enough and cuts it all off herself (and is then even more annoyed when it magically grows back overnight). | |
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In Alice's Restaurant, the protagonist gets assaulted in a restaurant and pushed out through the windowpane due to his long hair. The police arrest him instead of the perpetrators. He keeps his hair under his hat when hitching a ride in a truck. On entering, he lets his hair out, and the driver gives him a look of surprise and possibly also of regret that he had picked him up. | |
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In Goodbye Christopher Robin, CR is immediately bullied by other boys on being left at the boarding school. One of them mocks him for his longer hair, saying he looks like a girl. | |
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King of the Hill: In "Reborn To Be Wild." When asked by a pastor of a religious group that mixes Christianity with rock music if Bobby being a good Christian was more important than having a proper haircut, Hank responds that he's not stopping until he has both. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Inverted with Tommy, the team badass green (and later white) ranger, who had long hair and served as both The Big Guy and The Sixth Ranger, and Kimberly, the Valley Girl with short hair (by the midpoint of season 1 she'd evolved into the Class Princess) who were actually a couple until Zeo. Tommy's long hair never was mentioned in relation to his masculinity and Kimberly's short hair was never seen as a subversion of her femininity (the closest it came to even being acknowledged in any way is when she brushed her hair back a lot around Tommy, which is something short-haired girls tend to do to flirt). | |
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Red Dwarf: In "Emohawk: Polymorph II", Rimmer genuinely believes that all the greatest military victories in history were gained by the sides with the shortest haircuts. | |
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Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters: In Bass' ending, Wily shows him the plans for Zero. Bass is not impressed by its appearance. | |
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American Dad!: In "Son of Stan", Stan and Francine challenge each other to see who's the better parent by cloning Steve. Stan believes Steve should be raised with discipline while Francine believes Steve only needs love and support. To tell the two apart, the clone is named "Steve-arino" and his head is shaved into a flat top hairstyle. At the end of the challenge, Steve-arino is shown to be clean, athletic, and intelligent, while Steve is shown to be an overweight, greasy slob with messy, overgrown hair. Comparing the two, Stan calls himself the victor until it's revealed that Stan's role as disciplinarian drove Steve-arino away and made him a psychopath out of envy towards Steve's freedom to do what he pleases. | |
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Ennui GO!: Invoked when Max goes to the music club, dropping into a Heart of Darkness-esque monologue. | |
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Wizard and Glass: Eldred Jonas, leader of the Big Coffin Hunters, sports a head of long white hair. Some characters disparage it, saying he has a girl's hair, but notably no one will do it with Jonas in earshot. | |
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The film version of Fahrenheit 451 has a brief propaganda video that depicts a long-haired man being tackled by police and having it forcibly cut off, the narration declaring him a Know-Nothing Know-It-All. | |
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In Coming to America, Akeem already has short hair but also sports a braid at the back of his head that he has been growing for years. On coming to America, it crosses his mind that he could get rid of it. He eventually goes to the barbershop, where he only tells the barber to just make his hair look nice and neat; the barber cuts the braid off and asks for $8 for the job. Likewise, Akeem's long-lost son Lavelle in Coming 2 America only begins maturing after he first gets a hairstyle proper for his Zamundan heritage, and then getting the resulting braid cut off when he decides to do things in his own way rather than Akeem's way. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, a gym coach sees Bakura and pulls his hair while saying it's against the rules for a boy to have hair that long. He then tells Bakura to get a crew cut by the next day; this leads to the coach being Yami Bakura's first on-screen victim. | |
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In The Beginning After the End, Arthur starts to keep his hair slightly long with a short ponytail when he becomes a teenager. When one of his future teachers at Xyrus Academy bumps into him, he’s quick to tell him that a real man must have his hair short and his muscles big (like himself). Arthur being Arthur, he offers a Death Glare for all response and casually walks away, leaving the teacher speechless and slightly frightened. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Tedd averts this intentionally to distract from his naturally feminine face. | |
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In Team Fortress 2, the Soldier has a crew cut beneath his helmet by default. He also speaks derisively of long hair in many of his voice lines, sometimes vowing to give his opponents haircuts. Ironically, a handful of his cosmetic items gift him a fuller head of hair. | |
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Saint Paul wrote to the Corinthians about hair length: in 1 Corinthians 11:14 "Doth not even nature itself teach you that, if a man hath long hair, it is a shame unto him?" This is followed by 1 Corinthians 11:15 "But if a woman hath long hair, it is a glory to her?" (However, some believe that by using the Greek word "KOME" for the ("long") hair rather than the more generic word for hair "THRIX", he is not primarily referring to the length of the hair but to the idea of long, ornately styled hair (the verb "KOMAO" means "I style the hair". If he really is referring to the long/short male/female hair dichotomy, Saint Paul is in fact contradicting his own holy books, for in the Old Testament story of Sampson, the titular hero derived superhuman strength from his hair. Then again, this is advice from the NEW Testament, not the Old, which has differing guidelines). | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Who's Brian Now?'', Peter's barber dies and Peter responds by immaturely refusing to cut his hair. It gradually becomes shoulder-length, greasy, and unkempt as it emphasises his immaturity and he eventually becomes a redneck who makes moonshine. When Peter's hair is eventually cut after being caught in a garage door, Lois is relieved. | |
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