“That depends a lot of how you define unmasculine hair”
It depends on how they defined it, or more narrowly on how they thought others defined it. You can’t rebel against a norm if you don’t believe it to be a norm held by other people, but you can rebel against it even if you don’t think it should even be a norm (why else would you rebel?). So in a sense, perhaps the hippies weren’t trying to be unmanly, but “unmanly”.
I’m not the old that I can tell from my own experience but as far as I can tell few people in Germany would have said that they were rebelling against manliness (Männlichkeit) but rather authority or inequality.
“That depends a lot of how you define unmasculine hair” It depends on how they defined it, or more narrowly on how they thought others defined it. You can’t rebel against a norm if you don’t believe it to be a norm held by other people, but you can rebel against it even if you don’t think it should even be a norm (why else would you rebel?). So in a sense, perhaps the hippies weren’t trying to be unmanly, but “unmanly”.
I’m not the old that I can tell from my own experience but as far as I can tell few people in Germany would have said that they were rebelling against manliness (Männlichkeit) but rather authority or inequality.