Dressing for distress - or is it privilege power move?

Eely_Hovercraft
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:28:56 +0000

Long hair for boys in late October is prep school standard. It’s not a political or fashion choice for many – it’s that they’re away from home and either haven’t figured out how, or have de-prioritized, the haircut. They’re boys. If the choice is “screw around in the dorm with friends” or trudge off campus, wait at a barber shop, and pay $, the choice for many of them is easy. Think of it this way, before they went off to school, what was the ratio of “boys who asked to get a hair cut” vs. “boys who had to be forced to get a hair cut”? Now remove the ability to force them…