As a man who used to have long hair for decades, this is just wrong. But also, usually using more than one shampoo + one conditioner is not going to make much difference.
The amount of upvotes this boomer shit has is just fucking embarrassing. Gender has absolutely zero impact on hair. It’s all genetics. I’m male and my hair is long and thin as fuck.
Cool. Joke is “men dont buy products so they use shit at hand”.
So, still boomer humor based on manufactured gender division. Cool.
You’re That
GuyPerson at parties right?If you look for things to be angry about, you’re going to find them. This seems like a silly hill to die on
Hormones can play a role as well. Anecdotally, my wife’s hair during pregnancy became fuller and less brittle. Duckduckgo “pregnancy hair”. A monthly cycle, being on hormonal birth control, etc. will likely have some effect. I definitely agree that genetics does play a bigger role, but claiming that gender/sex plays no role is definitely incorrect.
Gender has absolutely zero impact on hair.
I used to think this also when I had long, wavy locks. Then met my secret new friend who was hiding away in the back of my genes “male pattern baldness” and now I know that men very much have different hair concerns than most women.
Also, it’s not a joke about gender having an impact on hair, it’s a joke about gendered roles having an impact on hair and how pointless a lot of the gendered expectations and marketed products are. Take a breath and learn the difference.
Why do people put so much energy into projecting identity politics on a superfluous detail like hair? Who cares? It’s all just a vanity concern, selfishly obsessed with what others think about how you look.
Does your hair make you have some intrinsic identity to others that you are or are not going for? Fuck you, I don’t care.
Do you authentically care, yourself?
Maybe you care about the politics - I can understand that. There is legitimate fear around legislating serious, dangerous things to your identity (not hair). Why the fuck are you spending your time and energy on hair???
Do you care about your appearance in any capacity or do you just roll out of bed and go on with your day?
If so, why the fuck are you spending your time and energy on your appearance?
dayummmm take a breath lol, its just a dumb meme
I 100% agree with you.
“If it’s good enough for penguins, it’s good enough for me. 😎”
As a man with frizzy, dry and curly hair. I have to say “doubt” on the dishwashing liquid.
More like “get that fat-solvant out of my sight, or you’re gonna get it”. No shampoo, only conditioner and you barely rinse it.
Apple cider vinegar is the trick
It’s mainly to do with longer and seldom cut hair being a lot harder to keep healthy than shorter and often cut hair is.
Being a man or woman doesn’t directly dictate the quality of one’s hair, rather in the current cultural environment it influences how long one’s hair is likely to be allowed to get before it’s cut (and how much it gets cut) which in turn influences how healthy one’s hair naturally is.
Then there’s also the whole concern with one’s external appearence which again in present day culture is also different in average for men and women, with the latter under more social pressure to look well groomed.
Plenty of guys out there with long hair have to go to a lot of trouble to make it look healthy when they actually try to.
As a guy with long curly hair, it is not that simple.
True, when I plan well enough it’s glorious: shower the night before, CG shampoo bar + stay in conditioner and I can just run my fingers trough my hair to style it the day after
When I shower before an event it’s a very thin line between too frizzy or too greasy and flat.
I get natural C curls from just one wash a week, no fuss. truly blessed
also has fuckall to do with gender
What’s this got to do with gender though? It’s not the hair, but the product which differentiates. “Woman’s” products are a scam, in every single category. Especially “woman’s only” products like tampons etc…
How are tampons a scam? Especially in the context of hair products?
gendered products are scams, tampons are actually toxic, plus insanely expensive, which they don’t need to be.
gendered products are scams
Yeah, how can you make gendered products for a gendered problem‽‽‽
tampons are actually toxic, plus insanely expensive,
That’s a scandal, not just a scam. But tampons are actually a necessity for many women who are not comfortable with other period products.
I see your point with many gendered products like pink kinder surprise that cost more than the regular or an unnecessary bunch of hair products marketed gendered.
But the way you delivered your example in this context was not well phrased.Yeah maybe, these topics make me sad and I don’t really like to indulge in them. So I don’t spend time thinking about my arguments, but generally, period products are way overpriced, and often use chemicals proven to be harmful.
I get your point. But allow me to brighten your day: 20 Places Around the World Where Governments Provide Free Period Products
I never expected there were so many other long haired men here secretly dealing with hair issues! I thought I’d been dealing with this alone the last few years since I decided to stop buzzcutting myself. Now I wish we had a more active hair community. Not necessarily male only, as this post seems to show we have “human hair” and not “guy hair” or “girl hair.”
Boys: now bald
Am girl. I don’t find that the kind of shampoos and conditioners really matter. I buy all kinds of volume ones for example, and there’s barely any difference. It’s more the styling that comes after. Getting a haircut that works for your hair helps too
Part of the solution is actually not washing your hair too much, or using too much product.
Your scalp naturally produces a lot of oils etc to keep your hair healthy, and shampoo actually removes this to an extent. Conditioner helps, but it’s not the same.
Bold of you to assume the top half of my head still grows hair.
Bald of you to not.
I wish I thought of this shiny new pun at the time.
I think eyebrows count as “top half of my head”, unfortunately. I can sit and watch those fuckers grow in the mirror.
Relevant Screaming Trees:
I nearly lost you there(Also, bring back 90s hair!)
It’s always kind of amused me how grunge rock was marketed as a fresh air alternative to hair bands, and yet … everybody still featured long hair.
There is long hair and then there is hair metal. It’s not the length, it’s that it’s propped up with a can of Style.
It never left, been rocking waist length hair since the 90s, that guy has short hair compared to me.
