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Your Professor was way out of line, and having been in positions at uni where I had cause to complain, I certainly would. Of course, there are consequences and you need to think what is more important to you. If your hair is a big part of who you are, then you should complain about the professor to whoever is above him. It won't make for a good atmosphere but sometimes it has to be done.
That being said, I think long hair on guys is fine, if it suits them. If your long hair makes you look messy and doesn't actually suit you more than a neater cut, then professionally you will suffer because of it. However it is unfair that guys can have short hair and still look below their best and no-one thinks to comment on that... it's a cultural thing at the end of the day. The normal standard is short hair on guys. Girls have it a lot easier.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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