Dear Abby,

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By Abigail Van Buren

Dear Abby:

You recently wrote that there is more fighting going on in the average American home because of hair than anything else.

I am a girl, 19, and I want to know why adults are so quick to judge a person by his outward appearance. If a boy has long hair he is taken for a hippie, radical, pot smoker, homosexual or freak. Why?

It makes me sad that outward appearances mean everything to adults. They don't bother to look at a person and see beyond his hair or his dress. They don't care what's on the inside.

Why can't adults forget what a person looks like, Abby, and judge him for what he is? They'd get to know a lot more beautiful people they now pass up because they look like trash.

Speaking for Many

Dear Speaking:

I agree; it's what a person is on the inside that's important. But we can't go around with X-ray eyes, bypassing appearances in order to look into a person's heart, soul and motivations.

So I ask you, why would a respectable girl want to get herself dressed up to look like a streetwalker? And who would a decent, productive young man want to look

like a shiftless, unwashed, bushy-headed bum?

Long hair, if it's clean and cared for, doesn't offend me. But long, greasy, neglected hair on men or women-young or old does.

A person may be immaculately clean, but if he looks dirty, I don't want him serving me in a restaurant. And I haven't the time to give him a physical.

A1

True, perhaps we are missing out on meeting a lot of beautiful people because they look like trash. But who wants to pick through what looks like trash in order to meet beautiful people?

Somewhere there should be a happy medium. And though I respect a person's right to comb his-hair and dress the way he wishes, if he gets himself dressed up to look like he's going to a costume party, he shouldn't feel that society is picking on him if somebody laughs.

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