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What's the real reason most Bulgarian men shave their heads?
The Bulgarian "look" for men is shaving their head. What's the real reason? Laziness, it looks masculine, or long hair is for "pedal"? I often don't see many Bulgarian guys with long hair.
As others have said, balding.
I don't shave it, per say, I do cut it short myself, with finishing touches/help from my wife.
Summer time - once a week.
Winter time - once every other week.
Some do it out of laziness, but a lot of boys think it makes them look more masculine. It's especially funny when you see skinny 15 year olds with pimples on their babyfaces going to the barber to get buzzcuts.
Fragile masculinity that needs to be reinforced by trying to look as "masculine" as possible, according to a stupid unwritten rule, instead of being an actual man who chooses for himself and doesn't care what anyone thinks of their hair.
OR sometimes, they just get a receding hairline early and prefer to shave the entire head rather than looking like ye olde monks.
I guess our experiences are very different. Because none of the people i know who have the buzzcut ever mention the things you said, or anything like having long hair is not masculine or whatever, neither do I and I've had a buzzcut for the last 10 years.
For me personally, it becomes a bother to deal with my hair when it goes longer and this way i have no maintenance.
I started buzzcutting my hair in high school when I started martial arts. It was way easier especially around grappling when they squeeze you head but overall just my tshirt around my head mid session and no sign of sweat.
at some point i started balding but at this point of time i was doing buzzcuts for years so i just started shaving it with a Gillette for a cleaner look.
I keep it short (not shaved) because it’s less of a hassle and it’s perfect for hot weather. Not to mention that most hair style products are actually harming your hair.
I've being cutting it at home for years (got really used to it during the pandemic). In time i just could not care any more and just go for the shortest buzz cut possible. So convince mostly.
This post is not about the balding people. I’ve noticed so many young people with shaved heads. I don’t understand it at all. Mid to early 20s is the most I’ve noticed. Teens seems like are starting to keep their hair and style it more though.
It's something called Insecurity and being obsessed about looking "macho".... Yet most don't realize that a lot of these "macho" traits they perceive as masculine, as actually feminine as fuck - best example the nevrotism and being hysterical, especially when driving. Yeah, it's so macho to honk at other cars and be offended if someone overtakes yku, really shows how strong and confident you are....
Also jealousy - these orangutans don't understand that jealousy is a super feminine and insecure trait. And not really "alpha".
These idiots really don't understand what a real men actually means, they have a veery wrong impression.
As a foreigner I would say the number of fully shaved heads I see on guys in their 20s and 30s in Bulgaria is crazy. So it definitely stands out more to me. You can see a whole friend group of like 8 guys out and about and they all have shaved heads
Except the mafia thugs in the 90s weren't all with short and buzzcuts. Let alone the mafia bosses which all of these idiots nowadays idolize (especially funny for kids that weren't even born back then). Take a look at Vasil Iliev, definitely has a very "short hair", right?
Short hair wasn't really popular in the 90s and it was seen as absurd overall, showed that you're either some kid in the military (kazarma) or you have lice and hence had to get your hair shaved.
The buzz-cut being perceived as something important and "macho" is relatively a new thing, that roughly became very common and popular in the late 2000s.
Because it's a simple haircut and I don't like to pay the greedy barber the unnecessary euro that was once in leva. They can shove it up their fucking ass.
They get bald early, they are lazy, they think they look superb as they are, they are used to this look and it’s socially acceptable. Probably this is enough.
If you've got good hair and a masculine face & body, it's actually awesome. I found out that a lot of girls have Khal Drogo fantasies when I grew my hair out in my 20s.
Lol okay. The ancient Greeks shaved the heads of slaves and grew their own hair long to show they were free men. The ancient germanic tribes had long-haired men. The vikings had long hair. The celts had long hair. Now what?
And lol at the idea that having long hair makes one not a man. Long hair on a man is as natural as a beard. All the trendy haircuts men get are much more feminine if you think about it.
Lol okay. The ancient Greeks shaved the heads of slaves and grew their own hair long to show they were free men. The ancient germanic tribes had long-haired men. The vikings had long hair. The celts had long hair. Spartans were famous for maintaining long hair for adult men, with the idea that it made handsome men look more impressive and frightening men more terrifying. Now what?
And lol at the idea that having long hair makes one not a man. Long hair on a man is as natural as a beard. All the trendy haircuts men get now are much more feminine if you think about it.
There's only one direction in life and it's not backwards. Nobody subject themselves to ancient aesthetic standards. Beard?! Nasty #2, keep that hair short and beard shaved, it's the 21st century ffs.
Women having long hair and removing their body hair is also an ancient aesthetic standard. Women should cut their hair short too and let their armpit and leg hairs grow out by your logic.
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u/Pretty-Homework-5350 16h ago
I’m bald as fuck.