Well, I *couldn't* wear a "high-and-tight" haircut if I wanted to. My hair stopped growing on top about 20 years ago. I suppose if I shaved off the pathetic remaining fringe it'd be not merely low-drag, but *no*-drag. (I'm not too sure about high-*speed*, though.)
I can certainly remember, not so very long ago, when how a man wore his hair was a *big* issue, and not just to his boss or military superiors. Total strangers would insult, threaten, and even attack a passerby whose hair was a little longer than they thought it ought to be. I won't even get into how different a traffic stop went for someone with a buzzcut and someone with long or even longish hair. The latter was about, oh, 800,000 times more likely to be "asked" for consent to search his car, or to have it defiled by muddy/manure-pawed dope dogs and even have it essentially physically torn apart, since everyone just *knew* that anyone with more than an inch or two of hair *had* to be some kind of doper. Myself, I have never even so much as taken one hit of pot/reefer/whatever you want to call it in my life. I never even wanted to, and I still don't. (It *would* be nice to be able to drink a beer without all the heavy surveillance, though.)
Maimaktes
