I'm going to a new school soon and they want me to cut my hair short. My hair was already shoulder length before I had it cut like a month ago and now this school wants me to cut it again.

Why are girls allowed to have long hair but it's unacceptable for boys? I have no idea how this even allowed in this day and age.

It really [censored] pisses me off! :flame:

This was actually on the news before in my state. A Jamaican kid was told to cut his hair (he had dreads) or he couldn't attend school. The family took legal action saying that it's prejudice. He's Jamaican and I guess the belief is to have long hair and the school went against that. They cannot make you cut your hair, it's blatant prejudice. Not exactly sixism but I know what you mean.

I have long hair too, I'm a boy.

I have long hair too and to be honest I would tell them where to shove it. It is unfair and wrong for people to expect you to conform to everyone else

At my school this was the rule:

If you had hair longer then the collar it had to be tied back....this applied to both boys and girls....so boys could have long hair, but it had to be tied back into a ponytail.

I had over a meter long hair as a boy a year back Decided to have it cut to see how I'd look as a more mature me with short hair (hadn't had short hair since I was like 9) and I immediately decided short hair wasn't for me just waiting for my hair to grow back now, it's only around 25 CM or so ATM.

I wouldn't give in to such demands honestly, this is your body and you're not doing anything extreme with it, lay down your claims of them being sixist if they ask again because it's the honest truth and they can't take offense at it.

I still think it's sixism because they're preventing me from doing what I want just because of my gender.

Wouldn't you say it was racism if a school stopped black people from doing something that white people were allowed to do just because of their skin colour?



Yeah well I'm very lucky to get into a good school like this and I'm already a few months behind in this curriculum so I'm not exactly eager to stir up trouble here.



My old school said I had to tie it up if it was too long, but since it was Saudi, a country filled with sixists, I just had it cut. But my current hairstyle isn't even below the collar. It's barely below my ears!

EDIT: ok I'm going for the haircut now, I'll check this topic later.

Not sixism, but forced submission to conformity. Yeah, we had a uniform in school and boys weren't allowed wild hairstyles like mohawks or dreads either. However, we had a few Sikhs and they were allowed to keep their hair long (although kept in their turban). If your hair was long and neat though, no one would mind.

Edit: Dubai is pretty liberal for the most part though, so in other schools everything was allowed.

Barely below the ears? Than you don't have long hair. [censored] them and find a school that doesn't svck.