Long Hair on Little Boys: Right or Wrong?

[Shana A]

Long Hair on Little Boys: Right or Wrong?
by Deborah Dunham
Posted Apr 19th 2010 at 7:00AM

http://www.stylelist.com/2010/04/19/long-haired-boys/

Kate Hudson finally convinced her six-year-old son, Ryder, to cut off his long locks.

Hudson admits it's always been a battle to give her son a haircut. "He won't let me cut it," she previously told US Weekly. In addition, she blames his rocker dad, Chris Robinson, lead singer if the Black Crowes. "I think it's a daddy thing," she said. "His daddy's got long hair so he loves his long hair."

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While we're all for individuality and expressing yourself with your hair, at what point does this become damaging for a little boy if he is being mistaken for a girl? Are their parents setting them up for an identity crisis or are they just having fun with their child's looks?

[LordKAT]

Hair length male or female,   Who cares? Obviously the media but what does it have to do with how you live your life or your ability to work?

[Hikari]

I would say at no point does it become damaging. At least no more so then any normal teasing that any child will get. I think parents go too far in trying to protect their children from imagined risks, which isn't good, as I know more than a few people who have serious mental problems due to helicopter parenting.

Then again I am biased as I love my long hair, and I'd like to think that being transgendered has nothing to do with that. And when I was a young child my parents used to force me to cut my hair, and it was rather damaging to me. I still get angry thinking about it. luckily, I have done nothing more than trimming my hair since I was 13 (which is incidentally the last time I lived with my parents), and I couldn't be happier about that.

[Silver]

Right or wrong? They don't even enter into this. It's like wearing a black shirt. It suits some, some prefer it and some will disagree. Long haired guys aren't automatically trans, effeminate, gay, rockers or anything.