I have had my hair long ever since I was 16 and since then I have been given all sorts of insults and jokes about how I "look like a girl" or that "real men have short hair".
Fortunately, this thinking is slowly dying out but I couldn't help but to notice that back in the nineteenth century many successful men had their hair long. So I figured, when did we create this stereotype and how?
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