{"id":916,"date":"2009-05-01T15:21:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=916"},"modified":"2009-05-01T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:21:56","slug":"mullet-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2009\/05\/01\/mullet-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"mullet like me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>there was a righteous mullet at the theatre last weekend, which directed my attention to this minneapolis blogger:<\/p>\n

In 1959 journalist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin for an undercover experiment with racial tensions that would later be published as ‘Black Like Me<\/a>.’ Now, fifty years later, a man with markedly less courage takes on a mission with markedly lower stakes. <\/span>mullet like me<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

strange how a haircut can fall so far out of fashion that it becomes hip, then become such an icon of irony that it becomes painfully un<\/em>hip. <\/em>apart from being unfashionable today, a mullet also conveys something about working-class rural white masculinity. so, wearing it now provokes derision in middle-class urban spaces, much like stone-washed jeans. yet the local hipsters are sporting mullets today, in much the same way they affected foam trucker hats and grain belt premium a few years back.<\/p>\n

that’s why mullet like me<\/em> might be a bit too <\/em>arch for a breaching experiment or sociology exercise. if a sociology student recorded the reactions to his mullet at the mall, karaoke night, and the high-end grocery store, any savvy bystander would quickly suss him out as an ironic hipster. he’d either blend into the background or get the half-smile of the half-amused.<\/p>\n

there are, of course, men and women who can pull off a real un<\/em>ironic mullet with style. for example, jared allen<\/a> of the vikings offers a 3-part code to living the life of the mullet<\/em>: <\/span><\/p>\n

1. In everything you do and wear, you must highlight your mullet.
\n2. Always respect another mullet — no matter where it’s at, a mullet always has the right of way.
\n3. Most importantly, sleeves are optional.<\/p>\n

tor could really rock a mullet in his lanky preschool years, so i wouldn’t be surprised if he returns to form in college — a couple incisions in the mane<\/a> and he’d be good to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

there was a righteous mullet at the theatre last weekend, which directed my attention to this minneapolis blogger: In 1959 journalist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin for an undercover experiment with racial tensions that would later be published as ‘Black Like Me.’ Now, fifty years later, a man with markedly less courage takes on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}