What do YOU think? When you pass by a man clinging to scraps combing it over with a horseshoe vs a man that shaves all that sh*t off? In my experience men that have very thin hair that grow it out seem to look more insecure / pathetic. But who the f*** knows.
Also, who has ever said that growing it out is more owning?
Holy sh*t, all the good ol' boys were on that thread. I miss those days.
Idk don't really think about it much, I think some people look better with at least some hair even if it's badly balding (not necessarily Krusty the Clown levels of grown out lol), whereas slick shaved it can look more unnatural and harsh and mutant-like. And I guess it depends on how you view it, one could argue just growing out whatever you got and trimming it every once in a while "owns" it more since they just continue as normal, as opposed to someone who starts razor shaving their head all the time where one can argue it does bother them enough since they have to minimize the balding pattern as much as possible, which you wouldn't need to if you were "owning it". Though on the other hand one can say the shaver "owns" it by "finishing" the job whereas the one growing it out is still "clinging on".
I've seen it a few times on this forum and elsewhere.