I hear you. Parents don't teach social skills to their kids. They are afraid (or too busy) to teach them much of anything. You would be amazed at how many young people think it's "gross" to wipe their arse! Your parents can't teach you something like that for fear they'll be arrested for abuse!. They're being too personal! Jeezus, who else is going to teach you? As far as things like opening the door or holding a chair or allowing somebody (male or female) to go through the door first, I did (and still do) all that. If it offends women, that's their problem and not my intention but I still say all this has nothing to do with hairstyles. Have you noticed the latest trends in young people, The hair is virtually cut off on the sides and long and combed back on top ("short back and sides" ca. 1930s and 40s). Look at pictures of Hitler Youth sometime! (or Hitler, for that matter.) It is a Fascist hairstyle. The kids have no idea of that but that's what it is, and I fear for these generations who don't even know why they do what they do because they don't know history.

@fishline79 Fashions, come, go, and come again. The swastika for example was a religious symbol throughout neolithic Eurasia, and had nothing to do with fascism, until it did. I agree that the outsize harms of Nazi Germany mean that the swastika will probably never disassociate itself from Naziism. Any group for the next thousand years would be dumb to pick that symbol to represent themselves unless it's a deliberate embrace of some form of fascistic ideology.

On the other hand ... how far should that go? Brown shirts? Hair styles? By that logic, the Boy Scouts should have long ago been disbanded, as they bear too much resemblance to the Hitler Youth.

In my youth, facial hair was considered by most of the "establishment" as subversive. Now it isn't. So then, is my facial hair that I have had for the past decade or so an indication that I'm a subversive, or merely commonplace and unremarkable?