Are Mohawks really coming back into style?
Now if I may, let us look over the history of said haircut. The mohawk hit "main stream" in the early 1980s. It became popular as a result of the "Punk" and "Rivethead" subcultures. Punks were all about rebelling against established norms. And if one can further infer, the haircut itself was a big way of giving the finger to the "status quo." Named after the Native American tribe, the mohawk was actually not that common a hair cut for those ancient Native Americans. The earliest known case of a person "sporting the do" was Clonycavan Man, a 2000 year old body found in a bog, which kept it decently preserved(found in Dublin, Ireland).
The modern day re-emergence of the haircut can be loosely attributed to Angelina Jolie's Adopted son, Maddox(New York Times Article, "The Mohawk Becomes, Well, Cute," Eric Wilson, 2005). Since then the, "Fauxhawk" has entered into its popularity with the likes of David Beckham(see above).
Now, I have to say I find it hilariously stupid that someone would actually give their child a mohawk. take this poor schmuck whos doomed to have scars that cut deep enough to make a stripper wince:
You are probably thinking, oh no big deal its a haircut. But this poor sap got suspended from school because of his haircut, that his parents probably forced on him or better yet, ALLOWED!
Now, all that having been said, the term douchebag has come into modern day slang to describe, "arrogance and engaging in obnoxious and/or irritating actions without malicious intent."
Now consider this, almost all of the people sporting the mohawk seem to be "irritating and obnoxious." and they do it because they "like" it. In turn that can be called "without malicious intent"
So I've put thought into it, and any douche wearing a mohawk will indeed be dubbed douchebag. And for the ultimately annoying and total assholes out there, Douche-hammer. I'm going to be updating this post in a bit to include pictures from a very important website, www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com in order to prove my point.
I've witnessed the resurgence of Mohawks firsthand in the classroom -- for about 2-3 years now, my male students have been sporting what I'd like to call the "Fauxhawk." It's a fake Mohawk, with the hair lifted up in the middle but not shaved at the sides. I made the mistake of telling one of my seniors he wasn't wearing a real Mohawk only to have him go and shave the sides to get the real thing... Luckily, I didn't get any angry phone calls from his parents. Unluckily, the new cool hair cut did nothing to salvage the boy's personality, which was a bit douchebaggy, I will confess.
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