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This day and age with a growing positive sentiment toward authoritarianism, anti intellectualism, and fascism, I think some punk would be good. A lot of punk, even.
Yea I feel this lol. I've never put dye in my hair but fuck am I considering it lol. Fuck the system and YES I am 32 who CARES we're all BURNING
Is that the message being communicated by the colored hair I've been seeing lately? If so, that's awesome. It flew right over my head.
Doesn't seem that way. They just seem to like that hair color without punk tenets.
I started dying my hair in my late 20s. It was really uncomfortable then because at least in my area it was very uncommon. Now that I'm turning 40, I’m doing it again, and its a lot more common now so its not nearly as uncomfortable (people stare less these days, cuz they care less)
That was the point of punk though. It wasn't about dying your hair purple, it was making it a colour hair wasn't. It was to be different. Run against the grain of society if you didn't like the way the grain was going. Be who you wanted to be and dress however you wanted. If someone said boo, you gave them the finger. If someone was racist or a homophobe, we'd scream at them and get in their faces.
Now that you can buy any colour hair dye in the grocery store, green hair isn't much of a statement. Same with clothes. The common folk were trying to dress above their class with Izod shirts, a sweater draped over their back, and penny loafers - like they just came from tennis at the country club. Ripped jeans, or worn out 30 year old clothes were considered low class and trashy which is why we loved them. Now you can buy pre-tattered clothes. That isn't a statement.
HOWEVER: If you want blue hair, ripped jeans, and a nipple piercing, do it!
Hell yeah! I can't decide on the colour yet. Also I need like, 80% of my hair off anyway. Cheaper and I haven't seen a hairdresser in 8 months lol. But my guy is on vacation for another week.
If I don't like it I can always just shave it off lol. Benefits of being masc presenting (though nonbinary)
What colour are you thinking of doing?
Maybe the solution is to not limit to one color!
This time I'm handing the wheel to a friend, since I need someone to bleach for me and that seemed like a good trade, but I’m only brining dyes in the red/pink/blue/purple/turquoise range, I’d be down for a full rainbow, but probably not until its short. Very hard to keep yellow nice during the dye when its waist-length. But I wanna enjoy the long for a bit with color, its fun to braid and looks neat with my hair accessories.
I tend to use conditioner to cut the color down, so I often end up more in the pastel range. Then sometimes ill do dark streaks in the pastels which looks pretty neat.
If you hate the color, clarifying shampoo strips it out decently quickly if you are using vegetable dyes. Then you can try it again.
I just did, same age as you. I'd never changed my hair color, but the clean look and tradwife fashion and whatever need some stronger counterculture (I was already dressed in black all the time).
It's surprisingly easy! You need to be careful with the materials, but other than that, it is doable at home. My hair is dark pink-orangey now. I'm loving it.
Currently trads are the counter culture.
"Counter Culture" people have been the norm since the late 70s. But people LOVE thinking of themselves as the underdog.
Until I can be fired for being trad, you're wrong.
@Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com Okay - so what is it you are saying that you can be fired for? Being a Nazi?
Wtf are you talking about dude? Where is the Nazi shit coming from? Use context clues.
Let me ask it differently then - what group can you be that will get you fired?
You won't get fired for being trad in essentially any job. You can get fired for dying your hair in a ton of different jobs. Trad people aren't counterculture.
Big eyeroll.
Same as some demagogue crying for 10 years he is being canceled. He has 25 million viewers. Shit is mainstreamed and some people didn't hear the shot.
@LittleBorat3 sorry - who are you talking about?
Fill in your favorite, right wing influencer that is being supposedly suppressed up to millions viewers and look how mainstream these views became.
If you ask them they are the underdog.
Okay... Everyone likes to see themselves as the underdog. Based on the state of "influences" I would contend left leaning ones are doing it as well. Maybe it is the nature of having an audience? Or jockeying for authority.
I loved the phrasing in this one.
Many will read it as:
But it should be read as:
We are adults. Punk adults.
Your typo reminded me of something.
When I was little, we had a children's TV personality/character called Grynet. Looking at Wikipedia it says that she was supposed to be a parody of a typical teenager, I was a little young at the time, but she strikes me more as this pink princess punk which as an adult I think is wonderfully inclusive.
Her tagline was "ta ingen skit!", roughly "Don't take any shit (from others)!"
Hah nice
ya remember how punk rockers used to smash guitars? so anyway, there’s this company called flock safety…
Go on, I'm listening...
well friend, so is flock safety.
look up benn jordan, he has better words than i do.
Based and tea party pilled
true, good to see AOC has shunned and been shunned by the national DSA as well
the DSA is dissolving from its policies out
i wonder if marx can save them lol