Would you like Mo Hawk?

June 10, 2005 ·  

Last night I decided to do a little case study. I decided to shave my head into a mohawk and then see if I am treated any differently. This I did.

I cut my hair, which is harder then it seems. Then I spiked it up nice and tall. I asked Candace if she would come with me to In-n-Out to get a hamburger. So off we went.

Without pretending like this is a real scientific study, I will just say that I noticed a few things.

1) The lady taking my order was less responsive to my conversation then usual. She didn’t listen to anything but my order and was short about that.

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2) People have no problem staring if something is different or out of the norm.

3) It is strange for people to see a mohawked fella with a girl that is very attractive and classy. Candace and I didn’t match, and people noticed. Even the goofball youngsters who were outside smokeing but looked like they were about five. Bless their heart.

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So it was a fun experience.

By way of information, the real reason that I shaved my hair was because I am heading out to Europe this afternoon for a couple weeks on planes, trains, and automobiles. I will be posting from there. If you would like to get updates when I post, be sure to put your email in the box to the right of this post. That will put you on the notify list.

Wish me luck.

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Comments

11 Responses to “Would you like Mo Hawk?”

  1. Anonymous on June 10th, 2005 11:56 am

    It’s a bummer you shaved it all off. It looked better as a mohawk.

  2. Shaun on June 10th, 2005 3:07 pm

    I think if you put a bow in it at times it looked like a pebbles flinstone haircut. Good Luck in Europe Pebbles!

  3. Richard Miller on June 10th, 2005 6:26 pm

    Brian, I have fixed feelings about this. (I’ve thought about this before.) I dislike that the cashier treated you differently because you had a mohawk, but I would feel much worse if she treated you differently because you were Hispanic or had a disability or for some other reason beyond your control. YOU decided to wear the mohawk. When I see someone with a mohawk, I believe they want attention. (And I’m speaking to the real mohawk-wearers, not you.) Since they want attention, I have no problem giving it — looking, making observatory comments, etc. I’m not rude, but it’s very clear to me that they are begging for attention. I also wonder if they kind of want negative attention so they can fuel an internal bitterness about how they are different and how society is bad for not accepting them. If they are self-conscious about how they look, they should switch to a more conservative (normal?) style, of which there are a variety.

  4. Jamie on June 11th, 2005 4:22 am

    The internet cafe I’m at won’t let me view the pictures, so I am just sitting here thinking to myself 1) what was my brother thinking and 2) I am so glad I amd on the other side of the world because I might have had to go Candace’s job. Eww.

  5. Alan Miller on June 11th, 2005 9:02 am

    Brian I had a parallel experience a few months ago as winter ended. I shaved myself a mohawk (not so much for experimental reasons).. It my own little Halloween in March. Some girls I know insisted no lending me some clothes to make me look all punk slash emo slash goth slash I don’t know what it’s called. I had an Atticus shirt if that means anything to you. My cousin Holly put a little eyeliner on me too so I looked like a freak. Half my experience was the same as yours. I went with Melissa Robison to a place to eat lunch and we sat facing opposite directinons. As people passed they would turn and look at her like “what is a sweet girl like you doing with a boy like that?” But It was always when I wasn’t looking. Being in Provo, people were not inclined to disapprove of me when I was looking. They waited until I would pass. Melissa would tell me this. The most I ever saw was out of the corner of my eye.When I turned to face their direction, they would turn on their non-judgemental looks as thouugh they thought nothing of it.

    I’ll email you a few pictures for comparison’s sake.

  6. ROACHIE on June 11th, 2005 2:20 pm

    I have to agree with “anonymous.” The mohawk was kinda sexy, AND it made you seem really fun. I never knew that the human face could convey so many emotions. The picture of you with Candace was funny too. It reminds me of the new show on MTV, “Meet the Barkers.”

  7. brandon on June 12th, 2005 11:37 pm

    ah man brian your hair looked so awsome shaved like a mohawk. you shoulda left it. the mohawk fits you well. lol

  8. Katie, Oliver, and Taylor (your favorite cousins) on June 15th, 2005 12:59 pm

    Taylor says the same thing happened to him, when he shaved the top of his head like a grandpa, and people really did treat him different, Oliver did Candace’s job in there experiment…hahaha

  9. Shirazi on July 4th, 2005 9:14 pm

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  11. pam on December 21st, 2005 6:51 am

    i know how you feel. i am a young black woman with a mo hawk i cut my hair to be different from everyone else and that is something that i always try to to do is be different. the response i got mo so from the black male was why did you do that to your hair. when i first did it i was afraid to go home and let my husband of 10 years see me that way, but to my surprise he loved it and told me i have balls! that made me feel okay with who and what i am… and that is unquie

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