![]() ![]() Why Are Wes Anderson’s Movies So Artificial? And So Deadpan? Asteroid City Provides an Answer. Pixar’s New Movie Is So Bad It Makes Me Worry About the Studio’s Future ![]() What Do You Do With a Geriatric Teen Hunk? Mindy Kaling’s Netflix Hit Found the Perfect Solution. This Bestselling Author Says Publishers Rejected His New Thriller Because He’s White. In 1297, the British Parliament condemned “the degenerate English of modern times who wear Irish clothes, have their heads half shaved and grow their hair long at the back, calling this culan, making themselves like the Irish in clothing and appearance.” (The word culan came from the Old Irish word cul, which meant “back of the head.”) As historian Robert Bartlett explains, the adoption of this hairstyle among English settlers in Ireland made it hard to tell them apart from the Irish population, and this just wouldn’t do: “Englishmen were being mistaken for Irishmen and killed as Irishmen, even though the killing of an Englishman and the killing of an Irishman required quite different punishments.” Mullets came in for more abuse in some places and times in the Middle Ages, particularly when and where they were associated with Irish males. ![]() This was particularly true among the male nobility-who were, it must be said, often fond of flouting the rules that some overly strict priests fruitlessly sought to impose on them. As with everything, what medieval norms proposed and what people actually did and thought are not the same (no more so than today). But while, in the eyes of some, long hair made men look a bit too much like women, and therefore lascivious, it was nonetheless still widely popular and coveted. ![]()
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