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Black student at Hawaii Mormon school says he’s fighting order to cut hair
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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What is with conservative groups and their weird fixation with hair length? It's not like its a historically set thing for men or women.
The best part is the Mormon depiction of Jesus has long flowing locks that go at least past his collar and a beard. The church promotes being clean shaven and a stereotypical military cut for boys.
Brigham Young had a long beard. Brigham Young would not be able to attend Brigham Young University because of the honor code about being clean shaven.
Conformity and control.
We’re all alike so I must be correct because everyone around me looks and believes like I do
Exactly. Just more cogs for the machinations of religion and capitalism.
I know, right? You'd think the long hair would give their priests better grip lmao /s
You know Mormon priests are 16-17 year old boys, right?
So?
The tale of Samson. It's always the tale of Samson.
Why, why why? Delilah!
It’s about keeping people in their gender roles.
Guess they never read the bit about Samson.
I don’t think they read any bit of it.
I started school in the mid 60's and we never had rules for hair.
We did have idiotic rules that boys got to do shop and girls had to do "home ec", short for learning how to cook, clean and mend for your future husband.
For boys, we had marching, bayonet drills, grenade throwing, trench digging, map reading, gas defense, camouflage, trap setting, ambush techniques, war games, firing guns, and blowing stuff up.
For girls: dressing wounds, making beds, and learning how to get pregnant.
It was normal to sell Africans like cattle when some people were younger. What's your point?
Didn't say they were. But you can see how "normal" at one point in time can be revealed to be unacceptable later on, yes? And how that's not a defense of anything worthwhile?
Also, it's not just a "haircut". It's cultural and racial oppression.
I mean, it's been that way in many parts of the western world for hundreds of years.
So yeah. It has gone long enough to call it "historically", I'd say.