Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 15, 2014

Sounds like the talk my Mother had with her grandson – my nephew.

Oh, say can you see….my eyes (if you can then my hair’s too short!)

Ironically, I believe that this one didn’t make it in to the first book, “Still a Few Bugs in the System.”

“Don’t ever have to cut it, cause it stopped by itself!”

This really reminds of how “serious” and political hair length was in the late 60s – so many of the olds went semi-nuts about it, way out of proportion to its significance. Part of why we grew our hair long was to thumb our noses (just to mix my metaphor!) at the older generation. I remember having people call me a “Commie” and telling me to “go back to Russia” just because I had long hair. Seems hard to believe that people got so wound up about it.

Now I have lost nearly all my hair! :-(

@masterskrainApril 2, 1971-gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/4/2

Good job, Dr. T, and others. Tell me that song has no relevance to this strip? Ha!

lice like long locks

I don’t think hair length has anything to do with getting hair lice, though extra long hair used to be associated with the “dirty hippie” type.

Now that I think of it, my mom told me she got very disapproving stares when she “bobbed” her hair in the twenties. First girl in her high school to do so.

Jesus was never depicted as having a buzz cut or even a Beatles cut.

I would just like to say that it is my convictionThat long hair and other flamboyant affectationsOf appearance are nothing more than the male’s emergenceFrom his drab camouflage into the gaudy plumage that is the birthright of his sex.There is a peculiar notion that elegant plumageAnd fine feathers are not proper for the maleWhen actually, that is the way things are in most species.

During war time, lots of people got lice in the dirty barracks, regardless of hair length. This also happens to students in close quarters, regardless of hair length.

Yes, of course we don’t know exactly what Jesus looked like. I guess whatever hairstyle was considered appropriate for Jewish men at that time.

“I think it’s funny when kiddies do thinks just to piss off ‘old folks’!”My younger daughter recently told me that when she was young she had one ear pierced to bug me. I larfed my head off and told her I hadn’t even noticed! If I had, I wouldn’t have cared.

Incidentally, I never had my ears pierced. When I was fifty-something, I thought it would be handy to have them pierced so I could wear something other than clip-ons (which are very scarce nowadays, and usually fall off easily or are excruciating to wear). So I marched up to a kiosk at the mall, then thought, “If I’m fifty-something and don’t have pierced ears yet, there must be a reason!” and marched away. (I’m too chicken.)

Mellow out! I seem to remember some anti- gay comments a few days. Which causes the comment section to explode with retaliation. To his credit he did apologize for his comments. And I think you should too.

I had students back then who told me their parents wouldn’t let them come home for Thanksgiving unless they cut their hair. Older people were really nuts on this subject then.

My hair like Jesus wore it, Halleluah I adore it!My last haircut was in 1981, still have it long cause the ladies love it and my Dad still hates it.They’ll be gaga at the go go when they see me in my toga, my toga made of long flowing, long beautiful hair!Btw I’ve been in upper management for for over 26 years and it hasn’t been a hindrance to upward movement!Well… except for they guys who went bald in their mid 30’s and 40’s, they’re a bit jealous and tell me so, frequently.I offer them a transplant if they want, I’m 50 and I won’t ever get it cut short!

Funny I remember having long hair back in those times and nobody checked it for lice — of course I was a female, so I guess that was different :)