It was the summer of 2011, the year I failed my college entry exams, and spent the entire summer attending rock concerts. My childhood friend, a funny looking metalhead himself, set himself a quota to visit just about every music festival there was in the country and brought me along. Unlike me, he was aware enough and did try and live it to the fullest. He had to, as he was starting to bald, and his locks were beginning to wear thin. He wanted a alternative girlfriend, and back then he still had a niche to tap into. It was the alternative scene where a different type of masculinity flourished. The concerts we attended ranged from metal to punk, and attracted several generations. From hippie boomers on motor bikes to millennials. Unlike the sausage fests seen at techno or rave parties, the metal crowds had a more equal share boys and girls -- with the girls actually dating the boys from that scene. Those were the days were you could still see a skinny 25yr old skeletor with a green colored diffusing mohavk and a bad posture with his cute gothic girlfriend attending a Jello Biafra concert. This was, I emphasize, still not a out of place image less than 10 years ago.
The beauty of subcultures was that they operated like microcosms where there was less competition. Truecels had it hard sine the dawn of time, but for all the sub8's who were operating within niche subcultures, you just needed to be slightly above average in that particular compartment to get laid. In the 1960s, the feminist writer Germanie Greer, upon seeing men with long hair for the first time in her life in swinging London, remarked that the guys who looked completely unremarkable with a crew cut, became angelic with long hair.
By 2013 the subcultures suddenly started waning, rapidly. Just as Charles Mason cast a nasty shadow on the hippy movement, Ian Watkins getting caught fiddling kids made the 'emo cut' be associated with pedo tryhards impressing 12 year old girls. Former looksmaxxing scene kids got jobs in IT and became numales, and goth became the subculture of landwhales. For the non-Chads there was nowhere where to turn, no place to go and be creative, except becoming a gymcelled alpha bro or immediately opt for MTF if he liked pink crayons. There is a good reason incel wiki lists 'cutecel' as a legit category. The 'cutecel' could successfully tap into a alternative form of masculinity in the context of a specific subculture, he cannot however compete in a world of where emulating Chad Vikings is the only way to be perceived attractive by women.
tl;dr: Is there a coincidence that undercuts are the only acceptable hairstyles today? It weeds out men who look like shit with them. Leaving no room to improvise.
The beauty of subcultures was that they operated like microcosms where there was less competition. Truecels had it hard sine the dawn of time, but for all the sub8's who were operating within niche subcultures, you just needed to be slightly above average in that particular compartment to get laid. In the 1960s, the feminist writer Germanie Greer, upon seeing men with long hair for the first time in her life in swinging London, remarked that the guys who looked completely unremarkable with a crew cut, became angelic with long hair.
By 2013 the subcultures suddenly started waning, rapidly. Just as Charles Mason cast a nasty shadow on the hippy movement, Ian Watkins getting caught fiddling kids made the 'emo cut' be associated with pedo tryhards impressing 12 year old girls. Former looksmaxxing scene kids got jobs in IT and became numales, and goth became the subculture of landwhales. For the non-Chads there was nowhere where to turn, no place to go and be creative, except becoming a gymcelled alpha bro or immediately opt for MTF if he liked pink crayons. There is a good reason incel wiki lists 'cutecel' as a legit category. The 'cutecel' could successfully tap into a alternative form of masculinity in the context of a specific subculture, he cannot however compete in a world of where emulating Chad Vikings is the only way to be perceived attractive by women.
tl;dr: Is there a coincidence that undercuts are the only acceptable hairstyles today? It weeds out men who look like shit with them. Leaving no room to improvise.
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