Male Buns

What's all the bun fashion for men these days. I am seeing more and more men wearing their hair in a bun and it seems weird to me. Unless you are a Samurai warrior always view a man bun  as looking effeminate. Some dermatologists also say when a male puts his hair in a bun he stresses the front of the scalp that leads to baldness. I wonder if women like male buns? They are quiet on the subject most of the time. Anyway, I was curious about the male bun and decided to research when they first appeared in society. Here's what I found.

Records show we can blame the Maori, indigenous Polynesian people, of New Zealand. for the bun. I have meet a few Maori people and always enjoyed their company. They are nice people, but they do have to wear a bun badge of shame for starting the male bun thing. It seems that around 1300 AD  Maori men of a certain high status would wear a tikitiki, or what's equivalent to a modern day topknot.

Shortly later Korea got bun fever. During the Joseon Dynasty in Korea around 1400 AD, married men in Korea put their hair in a sangtu, a knot at the top of their heads. The idea was not fashion, but to keep their hair from falling. Hats were specifically made with space for their buns. I wonder if that crazy North Korean Dictator, Kim Jong Il, will adopt a bun to further demonstrate his odd behavior. He's the nut that keeps threatening countries with nuclear holocaust. Gee, is there anything worse than being nuked by a guy who wears a bun?

Beginning in the 1600's the Samurai buns appeared. In Japan, during the Edo Period, the traditional haircut was called the chonmage, which meant the top of the head was nearly all shaven except for a cluster of hair tied up in a knot. Originally, Samurai used this hairstyle to keep their helmet in place. In my view guys with swords that they use to decapitate other guys can wear a bun any time they want. I'm going to keep my head and not make any  smart aleck remarks about their buns. But most of the male bun wearers I see today look weird, not menacing.

Fast forward to that irritating Leonardo DiCapario fellow, the actor who thinks he is an authority on all the idiotic P.C. issues only imbeciles worry about. DiCapario wore that style in a movie, and then adopted it personally. That lead to other actors and celebs copying his style, and today we have non celebrity buns in restaurants, grocery stores and just about anywhere civilized people gather. What we need today is to resurrect a few Samurai bun guys so they can thin out that population....