Reply #11: Thank you for your reply

[primavera]

I think you're absolutely right that any appearance has the potential to be striking, if it works for that individual. I have to confess, my personal perspective is a little jaded. For some reason, I have a strong association with buzz cuts and skinheads and military. Since I don't have very favorable associations with either skinheads or hardcore military types, and they're the people on whom I most often see young people making the conscious choice to wear little or no hair, it makes a statement to me, and not a favorable one. But of course that's silly, there are lots of people who have little or no hair and are neither skinheads nor Paris Island types. Certainly Patrick Stewart doesn't give off any of that vibe. It's just hard for me to get past the subconscious association.