u/Embarrassed_Bend3011

This has been bothering me for a long time in the sense that no-one talks about it that I have seen and it is just accepted as "natural". I look around and see so many varieties of women's hair and yet you can sit in a public place in the West and every adult man in the vicinity will look almost identical from the neck up. I think some of it is because there has not been the emancipation of men in terms of dress and hair like there has been for women e.g. a woman could go out in a full men's suit with cropped hair and no one would pay attention but a man with medium/long hair? and in a dress like clothing? it would be considered strange in most countries and likely mean there would be open derision of them. My own conclusion on this that it does seem adult men seem to want to conform and worry about not conforming to the stereotypical man model because different hair would show you were not masculine or a serious person in work situations etc. That is my intuition. I imagine some would say "it is easier" or "men don't care" but I don't want to generalise men as a monolith, everyone is a individual but as I said society exerts pressure on us all to a bigger or lesser extent.