It might have helped that when I grew up, all the men around me had long hair and wore floaty blouses of course! I was raised with long hair to, but was thirteen the first time I had most of it shaved off. Not because I wanted to be more 'masculine' (see above) but because there was an arty looking modette at my school (a few years older than me) and I thought she looked really cool - definitely more classy than all the girls with poodle-head perms in my year.