The shaved head is the mullet of the 90's: Yea or nay?

[RandomKoolzip]

In ten years, all these guys with completely bald heads are going to look as silly as guys with mullets do now. I stand by this statement and will defecate in my hand and throw it at you if you disagree.

[Sandpiper]

Nah, it's the comb-over

n/t

[Skittles]

1. throwing shit around again, RandomKoolzip?

I WILL KICK YOUR ASS

[RandomKoolzip]

4. Damn skippy!

Lots of roughage in my diet, too.



But seriously: look at Jeff Gannon and G. Gordon Liddy and tell me they're not the Brian Bosworth and the Billy Ray Cyrus of right now, hairwise.

[Skittles]

38. of course they look ridiculous

one man out of a hundred looks cool shaving their head so they all try it. F***ing herd mentality I suppose.

[Radical Activist]

2. Absolutely

It looks dum and is becoming associated with white trash freepers like Gannon.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. It's the Gannon thread pics that led me to this conclusion.

That and seeing Howie Mandel's current "look."

[DBoon]

3. Love the Mike Watt sig line

:)

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Thank you, sir.

Anything I can do to spread the 'Pedro aesthetic.

[Dave Reynolds]

5. Coupled with a Van Dyke,

it's the white supremacist stereotype.

[lazarus]

17. How nice

As someone with a van Dyke (goatee) and shaved head, I really appreciate being lumped in with the racists.

Good thing we're not like them, and don't judge people by their appearance, eh?

[RandomKoolzip]

18. Relax, man.

It's all in fun.


All day, people have been picking on me for my "soul patch," but you don't see me threatening to take my ball and go home. We're all friends here, right? No offense was intended.

[lazarus]

19. Haven't seen that

Just cruised through, and found that I'm apparently a white supremacist. :eyes:

FWIW, some of us actually have to shave our heads for medical reasons, too. :hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

23. Right, some people have shaved heads for medical reasons....

and some people are naturally bald. BUT HOWIE "FUCKING" MANDEL HAS NO EXCUSE!

[JohnKleeb]

24. Whos Howie Fucking Mandel?

[RandomKoolzip]

28. This guy:

He's a lame-ass stand up comic who used to look like this:



in the 80's. His trademark gag was fitting a rubber glove over his head and inflating it with his nose. He was the Carrot Top of his day.

[JohnKleeb]

29. wow he looks bad

god carrot top.

[RandomKoolzip]

35. My point!

His comedy sensibilities neatly paralleled his fashion sensibilities.

Now Carrot Top.....If you murdered Mr. Top during one of his performances, there would be certain district courts in this country who would consider it self-defense.

[ET Awful]

46. Of course . . . if Carrot Top were to opt for this hairless look, his

career would end instantly since he would have no name and no further recognition of any kind.

Hmmmm, now there's a thought :)

[Cooley Hurd]

51. You hold him down...

...I'll fire up the Norelco.:thumbsup:

[ET Awful]

52. Screw the Norelco,

I'm thinking more along the lines of rusty pruning shears :)

[Dave Reynolds]

21. That's why I said "stereotype".

I have a nephew with the same style.

I try to never lump anybody.

On edit: It was poorly worded, sorry man.

[lazarus]

22. Okay, but

it sure seemed like it.

No biggie, I'll move along. Need to shave my head again. :P

[Dave Reynolds]

25. Careful,

especially if you use those 4-bladed things.

[lazarus]

30. nope

three blades. Excel.

Haven't cut myself in over a year.

[Cooley Hurd]

48. I'm with you, Laz...

I'm just angry so many stole OUR look!:thumbsup:

[RagingInMiami]

43. Where do you hang out?

I had no idea there was a stereotype for a physical description of a white supremacist.

[Dave Reynolds]

67. There's this little bar

I drink at called the Kitty Kat Klub. All the fellas have these funny tattoos on them that look like twisted Xs.

Kidding.

Just reminded me of the silly dudes that called themselves skinheads, saw quite a few in Central Florida, Oklahoma, and Michigan.

[babylonsister]

7. RKZ, get back to us in 10 years! You might

feel differently. I'm a woman and pushing 50, and every man I know is losing hair, balding, or bald.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. I'm talking about guys who shave their heads to go for that

streamlined, gen X, "techno" look (sometimes augmented with a Van Dyke, like an above poster said, and oversized sunglasses). Dudes who are naturally bald are granted leeway here.

[Dave Reynolds]

33. My lumpy, misshapen head

is best kept under hair.

[Withywindle]

10. I'm with ya!

They think it makes them look badass.


God knows why.

[shawmut]

11. There are always going to be people who look good bald

No one looks good with a mullet.

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Exhibit b:

http://roshan-menon.8m.net/Joe%20Satriani%20live%20in%20Sete,%20France.jpg

[blackcatpgh]

53. that guy is doing a bad rip off of cheetah chrome (dead boys)

he's been shaved bald for a long time -- probably because he was going bald:

[98geoduck]

13. It's a Bush thang....

http://juliusblog.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_juliusblog_archive.html#108300556134138351
JuliusBlog

[Dookus]

14. the 90s?

It's the oughts, baby!

[RandomKoolzip]

16. Exactly my point. n/t

[Floogeldy]

15. Interesting question!

Could be.

[imenja]

20. the answer is no

Here's why: mullets are ugly on EVERYONE. Shaved heads look good on some. But far too many get them who shouldn't, especially white guys. As unfortunate as they may look, they can't compete with the mullet on the hideous scale.

[RandomKoolzip]

27. Substitute "Mullet" for "Shaved heads" and "Feathered hair"

for "Mullet" in your above post and you have just created what people were saying in 1989. (Of course, they didn't call it the "mullet" in 1989. They called it the "Boz" or the "Hockey Haircut" back then.)

Business in the front, party in the back!

[Floogeldy]

31. But, in the future, people may look back and ask . . . .

What kind of freaks shaved their heads back then? Eh?

Think about it.

[imenja]

36. feathered hair beat mullets any day

I don't care what decade you're in.

[last_texas_dem]

54. I disagree

The mullet looked good on Pat Benatar. :-) lol

I can't think of anyone else at the moment, though...

[imenja]

63. now wouldn't hers have been rightly considered a shag?

I used to wear a shag. Does that mean I was unknowingly sporting a mullet?

[last_texas_dem]

65. I think you're right

She had more hair on top than I think would be permissible in a true mullet. I've actually heard her haircut referred to as a mullet before, though, which is why I was joking about it; some people have a very loose definition of what qualifies as a mullet.

Shags usually look okay; much better than mullets for sure!

[wickerwoman]

26. I have to disagree.

A.) As stated previously, no one in the history of the world has ever looked good in a mullet whereas a pretty chunky proportion of men look OK with a shaved head and B.) at least 80% of the male professors and grad students at my university had shaved heads (mostly as a poor disguise for oncoming baldness.) What will happen to them if we eliminate this option? I tend to associate it more with intellectuals than anything else.

[RandomKoolzip]

39. Counterpoint:

A.) As stated previously, no one in the history of the world has ever looked good in a mullet

If this is true, why did anyone EVER have mullet in the first place? There was a sizable crosssection of the male body politic with mullets in the late 80's/early 90's. Back then, they thought they were stylin'. Now, of course, we look back and laugh. Fashions change, and whenever they do, people act as if 'twas ever thus, and that the fashions of the future will obtain at the current level forever, but it ain't true! Which is why people bought all those disco albums back in the late 70's, then all those dumb new wave albums in the early 80's, then all those shitty dance-pop albums in the late 80's, then all those grunge albums in the early 90's, then all those shitty techno-hiphop albums in the late 90's, etc.....But when you point out the cyclical nature of this stuff, people get uptight.

Why is it not acceptable to look at TODAY'S version of the mullet and laugh?

[wickerwoman]

42. There's no excuse for a mullet. Not even peer pressure.

And I think the shaved thing is more than just a fashion. It's a way for aging guys to make baldness look like a choice rather than a submission to the ravages of time.

How many forty year old men do you know with waist length hair? It's not just due to changing fashions. As your hair gets thinner, it looks stringy and even thinner than it actually is when you wear it long. That's why so many grannies have short hair. So the shaved guys are just taking the "thin hair should be short" principle to its logical conclusion. Sometimes they pull it off, sometimes they don't. :shrug: But I don't think it reflects on their overall intelligence in the same way that a mullet does.

[Radical Activist]

32. I was talking to a trucker with a mean mullet today

And it was serious too. Way long in back. Short on top. Classic. Nice guy though.

[elperromagico]

34. I submit that whatever hairdo you're sporting

will come to be regarded as the mullet of the 2000s.

What say you, sir?

[RandomKoolzip]

37. I take it you have a shaved head?

Man, people are touchy about this shit. Why is it unacceptable to poke fun at CURRENT fashion foibles, but recently abandoned ones are ripe for attack? I don't get it.

[elperromagico]

40. No, I do not have a shaved head,

though I have in the past.

Why are people touchy about the way they look? Shit, I don't know. We all must be crazy...

I mean, it's not like it's human nature to be offended when someone insults some aspect of your appearance, is it?

[RandomKoolzip]

41. I used to have a shaved head, too.

I used to shave my head back in the late 80's when everyone was wearing mullets.

In a few years, some other look will supplant the shaved head, and we'll all act embarrassed when someone finds a picture of us with shaved heads "back then."

I'm saying: why not be embarrassed NOW? Embarassment is my fetish.

[elperromagico]

44. I just don't see how it's comparable to the mullet.

A lot of men who shave their heads do so because the alternative is to have patches of hair on top, or no hair on top, with just a fringe around the back and sides.

The mullet strikes me as more of a choice. There are better alternatives available. But what are the alternatives for a balding man? Transplants? A toupee? The dreaded combover?

[RandomKoolzip]

45. As I've stated previously....

NATURALLY bald men have an "out" here. It's the guys who aren't balding, who think that they're capturing the "zeitgeist," brushing up against the technofied, post-genX, streamlined aesthetic by shaving their heads who deserve to be strung up by their toenails and drained of blood and fed to radioactive seagulls.

Take a look at the post titled "Exhibit b" upwards of this post. Therein lies a guy (Joe Satriani) who will regret his fashion decisions seven years from now. I COULD go google another pic of the same guy "capturing the zeitgeist" of the late 80's, with his curly mullet tendrils dangling down, tickling his lumbar region like tiny slalmander tongues....Mindless followers of fashion, as opposed to independent thinkers.

It's the same way with music; people get defensive when you point out to them that their current favorites might not sound so great ten years from now...but they're the same dudes who were listening to C+C Music Factory in 1991, but who look back and giggle when they think back about what they were doing back then.

My point is that people rarely step outside of time and realize that trends are cyclical; they instead front like the shit they're into RIGHT NOW will always be cool.

To sum up: the current fashions will look stupid ten years from now. Shaved heads are a current fashion (now on the wane, thank god), and are not immune to this truth.

[tigereye]

64. seems like an Xer thing to me

or post-Xer? I associate it with guys of a certain age. It was trendy and now it's kind of a cliche. I understand why they do it, and maybe it does look better than the eventual tonsure. However, I am not sure it has the same vibe as a mullet, seems like a different class sensibilty.

[terrya]

47. Sometimes it looks hot, sometimes it doesn't.

There are guys who have a shaved head who look quite sexy...and some who have it who don't. I think it will always be around. It looks a damn sight better than some combover.

[arwalden]

49. I Have A Choice: Pretend To Be Bald... Or Pretend To Have Hair.

What should I do? All the people judging others and accusing them of having a "herd mentality" and looking "ridiculous". I'm so confused. :shrug:

Should I follow THOSE people over there who say that fake-bald heads look silly and that I should let my "hair" grow?

OR....

Should I follow THOSE people over there who say I that wispy-haired heads look stupid and that I should just go ahead and buzz it off?

Which "herd" should I listen to and follow?

Decisions, decisions! :scared:

[terrya]

50. It's a purely aesthetic decision.

For *me*, trying to pretend that you have hair looks ridiculous. Better to shave it off than the combover or, god forbid, the REALLY dreaded toupee :scared:

[arwalden]

56. Remember That Toupee'd Guy On Queer Eye?

...he looked SO much better being bald.

[terrya]

58. You read my mind. That's exactly who I was thinking about.

He looked very good after the toupee was removed and his head was shaved.

[last_texas_dem]

55. I tend to agree

However, I will of course make the exception for those who decide to shave because of balding reasons; that's a logical choice. But yes, in terms of the guys in their teens and twenties (and sometimes older), who in most cases aren't doing it because they're balding but because they're trying to look "cool", but that it doesn't even look good on... yes, I think it's the current equivalent of the mullet. It's a style that will have its day in the sun and that many will later try to pretend never happened.

[Ellen Forradalom]

57. I think it's a damn sight better than a combover

or a ponytail, which are the mullets of middle age.

I have to say that my ex is one of the pioneers of this look, having shaved his head ince the late 80s, and it works quite well on him. It doesn't work on everyone, however.

[HCeline69]

59. Just another example

of Anton LaVey's revenge!

[DS1]

60. Other: Michael Stipe is a complete asshole, and is not

to be compared with the rest of society.

[tigereye]

66. I don't think Stipe's "a complete asshole"

but I really get grossed out looking at the veins on his skull. EEWWW.

[BiggJawn]

61. They shave today, and when they're in their 50's.....

...they'll be poppin' Rogaine like it was Tic-Tacks.

Go ahead and shave your head. I imagine there's something about my appearance that you think is pretty fucking stupid looking, too.

[chenGOD]

62. Some ways yes, others no....

I gather it's really popular nowadays over there in North America (well Canada and the US anyways). I had my head shaved from about 91-96, and it was really catching on by 95.
Now I have hair, but some days I really feel the urge to shave it off again, cause it was really convenient, and I have a pretty good shaped head (plus it's so much fun to rub your head after a couple of days of growth).

To say it's the mullet of the 90's might be a bit of a stretch, but I can see the comparison.

[redqueen]

68. Okay first of all, posting that pic was WRONG!

For shame!

Second of all... this turned into a FLAME WAR? Unbelievable! Okay, well, not really... but still!

And third of all... some people look stupid with them, but I find some of them sexy. I have never found anyone with a mullet sexy, so the answer is no.

I must admit, though, that the combination of baldness with facial hair does irritate me, for some reason I don't understand.