re: #148 A Mom Anon

That’s quite true here in the South too. My son has hair almost to his waist at the moment, but he’s worn his hair long since about 5th grade. The amount of shit he’s taken for that is astounding. I give him props for not bowing to pressure to cut it. His employer doesn’t care as long as he keeps it in a ponytail. But his male peers have been real jerks, with the exception of one obvious group: metal musicians and their fans. All through school he caught shit for being “a fag”, “so fucking gay” etc etc. Over his hair. He’s not really stereotypically “gay” but for the hair and his lack of giving a shit about sports. Which around here can be a death sentence to your social life. I don’t get it. It’s so weird to me that the guys who are the most scared of being even mildly perceived as gay spend an inordinate amount of time working to impress other guys and not really give a shit what women think of them or care how they treat women. Seems kinda, well, you know.

Camouflage behavior, like those virulently anti-gay preachers and politicians who are eventually caught with a “rentboy” or a hookup in the men’s room.