Been awhile since I've checked in around here. Just thought of something neat though, but it's too long and pointless to put on Facebook. So I figured I'd put it here.
Like most people I know, I've never been a big fan of mullets. But just a moment ago I thought of something; the mullet is simply long hair for conservative males. You might be thinking, "Well, yeah. You see conservatives and hipsters wearing mullets all the time." But I think there's more to it than that. For a second, think to yourself how often you see an unshakably right-winged man sporting long hair. Probably not often. Now out of those select few, how many were NOT wearing mullets? For me, it's none.
So why does the mullet completely shut out all other wears of long hair among the rebellious yet flag-waiving youth and youth-at-heart of America? Probably something to do with homophobia, if you ask me. The Republican Party tends to make it clear that they don't like gay people. Or at least not enough to let them get married. And I think most people have seen at least one real instance (and a dozen or so in movies) of males being called on their sexual preference based on the length of their hair, sometimes even when said hair is a mullet, but they tend to get by. And whether or not a man with long hair is suspected of being gay, just about anyone of any political leaning would probably suspect him of being a liberal. That is, suspect him of being okay with gay people having the same rights as other people.
For whatever reason, the mullet is typically excluded from this. Possibly because it's too universally perceived as such bad hair that gays or other liberals would only wear it out of "irony." So I suspect there's at least a portion of mullet-wearers who know they look bad, but they want to have long hair while making it clear they believe in Uncle Sam, apple pie, and heterosexuality. So what they're left with is the mullet. Those poor SOBs.
