‘(It’s) not just a hairstyle, it’s a lifestyle’ HutchCC students on the return of the mullet

By Victoria Lewis Staff Writer

It’s all business in the front and party in the back, now that the mullet - the hairstyle that was once all the rage in the 1980s - is experiencing quite an intense (and controversial) comeback.

The mullets are hiding in plain sight with many Hutchinson Community College students sporting the ‘short in the front, long in the back’ ‘do.

One such student is Nestus Burger, a freshman of Perth, Australia, who grew his luscious locks into a mullet over the span of a year, after being inspired by a friend. A key marker of millennial Australian culture, Burger said he “just wanted to be one of the boys,” by getting a mullet.

According to Burger, whose mullet is one of his self proclaimed ‘personality traits’ “a mullet is not just a hairstyle, it’s a lifestyle.”

You either have it or you don’t when it comes to the elusive hairstyle

“You have to have a certain personality to have a mullet,” Burger said. “There’s not many people that hate-hate it, but there are lots of people who love it.”

He finishes that sentence off with a wink.

Nestus only has one question for those pesky mullet haters out there - “Why? Just, why?”

What’s wrong with it you know? It’s just hair.”

Cole Segraves, a freshman out of Maize, is another student who has fashioned himself a mullet, taking just four months to grow. His motive for testing out the hairstyle was that he “wanted to try something different.

“I just thought they were cool, (and) I’d never tried it,” Segraves said.

Segraves doesn’t let the mullet-hating army get to him. Even his family disapproves of the mullet.

“They would rather just have a standard haircut, just short like in the military - just the generation I think,” he said “I don’t really care, I feel like it’s just hair so I don’t know why it matters so much.”

The other side of the camp, however, seems much more passionate about the topic. When Monae Duffy, a freshman from Lafayette, La., sees a mullet, she does not like what she sees.

Duffy cannot wrap her head around people who live and die by their mullets.

“I would prefer any other men’s styles, but no mullet,” Duffy said. “I feel like it is a childish hairstyle for men.”

And if her future son came home one day wanting a mullet?

“He was just simply not getting it,” Duffy said.

In her opinion, there is one instance and one instance only where the mullet is allowed to have a comeback, saying “a female mullet is not bad … like it all depends on how the woman styles it.”

However, she doesn’t think that there should be a comeback on men’s mullets.

“Let women have a chance to rock the style and make something out of it,” Duffy said.

The mullet is a red-hot topic of debate, but one thing’s for sure - the mullet is back, and it’s here for a good time, and a long time.

Great mullets in history

It’s a pretty-well documented thing that the alt-right is totally absurd on every level. From beliefs to actions, nothing they do makes sense, however, for one representative, everything they do is the most absurdly insane human being in the country.

I’m talking, of course, about the representative of Georgia’s 14th congressional district, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Recently, “60 Minutes” did an interview with MTG that showed quite a bit of incompetence on both sides, but what I’m here to focus on is Marjorie herself. I couldn’t care less if the interviewer sucked at her job, because the real harm done is the absolutely moronic things that Marjorie says on a daily basis, be it calling for a “national divorce” between red and blue states, or that the California wildfires in 2021 were caused by “Space Lasers”.

The interview truly begins with questions about raising taxes. Greene refused to answer and instead pivoted by saying the blame for the rapidly approaching economic disaster lies with, “The people that have spent $31 trillion that forced this situation to happen.”

Which means … absolutely nothing. She follows this up with, “We don’t have a revenue problem in DC, but a spending problem.” Which I would argue is true. Except her solution is to cut COVID-19 bailouts and green energy spending, instead of cutting … maybe some of the $800 billion we give to the military every year. Marjorie refuses to acknowledge that clean energy is one of the only ways to save our future going forward. But of course, she doesn’t care about the future. She cares about the now, where she can work on killing trans people and criminalizing gay people and arguing for a genocide against whatever group of people she feels like.

It continues showing a clip from “the past” , whatever that means, of MTG chasing down a survivor of the Park- land school shooting to tell them that if the school had armed security guards this would have never happened. I hope to god I don’t have to explain why that is 50 different levels of screwed up.

And of course, the “age-old” adage of “The democrats are a party of pedophiles”, to which she agrees, saying “They support grooming children.” and “Even Joe Biden - the presidentsupports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. That’s what pedophiles do, they sexualize children,” which shows the absolutely absurd lack of understanding the representative has for trans people.

No one is sexualizing kids, republicans just think anything involving gay or trans people is sexual, because the only context they have for the existence of gay and trans people is the porn they watch behind closed doors. (Cough cough Ted Cruz.) Also no one is arguing that kids should have gender-confirmation surgeries. The argument is that trans kids should have the right to go on puberty blockers because it has an immensely positive effect on the trans suicidality rate. When kids are accepted and supported and allowed to live as they want to, their likelihood to attempt suicide plummets.

Marjorie says it’s OK to call the democrats pedophiles because people on the internet call her racist. And Antisemititc. That’s name calling, and she’s just stating the truth. Which is, of course, the squirliest dodge imaginable. Marjorie is called racist because she supports a system that actively decreases the ability of Black people to exist in this country.

Marjorie Taylor Greene also, of course, believes in QAnon, because what kind of alt-right nut job doesn’t these days. And she avoids blame for having liked a Facebook post calling for speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi to get a “Bullet to the head” by saying she wasn’t running her social media at that point. But she also stands by the stuff on her page. So which is it? Does she think Nancy Pelosi should be shot, or did she not believe the stuff on her page?

While this interview was absurdly embarrassing for both sides, the interviewer allowing MTG to basically walk all over her, Marjorie herself still comes out as the national embarrassment I’ve always said she was. The people of Georgia should be ashamed that she is the one who has been chosen to represent them on a national level. I’m certainly embarrassed that she represents any portion of America.

However, there is one way this can go that I would be genuinely excited to see. A retry of this interview performed by Jon Stewart. The key factor in an interview with America’s ‘Darling Moron’ would be an interviewer who actually takes and retains control over the conversation. Jon Stewart would do that and then some.

Braedon Martin is a Hutchinson sophomore studying journalism. He is the Collegian’s Opinion Page Editor and Managing Editor-Design.