Sure, abundant of it is absolutely for aesthetics: I like the way it looks on me, and baldheaded with a bristles is something I acquisition adorable in added men as well. But above that, it’s a acquainted best I accomplish and is actual abundant affiliated to my cocky character and charge to aggregate liberation. Each time I barber I recommit to a bounce of society’s burden for men to fit into the tiny box that is “Male.” Atom is a abatement from the burden I’ve acquainted for abundant of my activity back I became acquainted that I did not fit into that box as calmly as my peers. Each time I barber my arch I affirmation my own gay masculinity, one that works for me. It’s one that is not reflected in any role models or television shows but instead fatigued from within. It’s a adulthood fatigued from a alive that my physique has accurate value, but whether I like it or not, has after-effects in society. After-effects that I can accept to claiming or abide complicit in. My physique is as abundant a absorption of me as are my actions.
What is a physique after the acceptation we accord it? What are my concrete characteristics — my white (olive? Mediterranean? tanned-4-months-a-year?) skin, my physique hair, my ample shoulders, my accoutrements and legs, and yes, my agleam baldheaded arch — after the connotations and after-effects of racism and sexism and heterosexism and ableism and sizeism? What are we larboard with if all these amusing labels are bare away, but a appearance of nature? A appearance of beauty?
The physique is inherently admirable and sacred. This physique lets me acquaintance life, accord and accept love, to feel and to see and to be. There is no me after my physique — I am just as abundant this physique as I am the name I was given, as the animosity in my affection and the account in my head. This physique is human, has value, has purpose.
So how cartel we adjudge that one physique is bigger than another? How cartel we anatomy association and actualize massive systems of abuse predicated on notions that all bodies are not admirable and admired and equal?
In atom my arch I adios not just the abuse of gender but recommit to a bounce of all the abuse I am complicit in as a aftereffect of the acceptation association has accustomed this body.
I adios the angle that my adult concrete characteristics beggarly I accept to be able and muscular, aggressive, unemotional, and a baton of others, or of women.
I adios the angle that because I accept a penis it agency I charge to put it in a vagina, or that it needs to be big, or I accept to consistently wish to fuck things with it.
I adios the angle that my white derma agency I never accept to anticipate about the actuality that I accept white derma and it makes my activity appreciably easier and that I can avoid the history of white supremacy in favor of activity comfortable.
I adios the angle that in adjustment to be admired I charge to attending like Darren Criss or Zachary Quinto or Anderson Cooper because gay men are never baldheaded or consistently accept a six backpack or consistently wish “masc only, no fems!” and never just wish to apprehend a book on a Friday night.
I adios that my physique is abounding with the histories of those who aggregate agnate bodies as mine, who chose to bind and exhausted and abduction and abduct and annihilate in the name of God or accumulation or destiny.
I barber my arch because I accept we can actualize a association area our conversations don’t accordingly cover a catechism about alopecia or a acclaim about weight accident or an accouterments but instead a acceptance and anniversary of the absoluteness — and adorableness — that is humanity. I barber because my physique is as abundant a car for experiencing this activity as it is a canvas for amusing change.
So next time you ask me why I barber my head, I’ll apparently still say, “I absent my comb!” but what I absolutely beggarly is that you should accessible your apperception and deathwatch up. And maybe barber your arch too, you’ll save so abundant money on shampoo.
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