Earrings on Men

[bookslover]

Once it became culturally OK for men to wear earrings (well, at least in California!), I've been astounded at how many older men - guys in their 60s and 70s - started wearing them.

It's almost as if they've secretly waited their whole lives to be able to wear earrings.

Strange...

 

[raekwon]

I wear 'em, but I'm not in my 60s or 70s.

 

[21st Century Calvinist]

Bookslover,
Are you wanting us to validate your getting an earring?
For what it's worth, I have one but I haven't worn it for several years.

 

[PuritanCovenanter]

I had four at this time. (2002) I still have the holes but I don't wear them any longer. I outgrew the desire to wear them. I rather like getting older and looking and acting my age.

 

[bookslover]

Bookslover,
Are you wanting us to validate your getting an earring?
For what it's worth, I have one but I haven't worn it for several years.

No. I'm just curmudgeonly enough to think that, in our culture, earrings should be for females...

 

[Archlute]

Bookslover,
Are you wanting us to validate your getting an earring?
For what it's worth, I have one but I haven't worn it for several years.

No. I'm just curmudgeonly enough to think that, in our culture, earrings should be for females...

Amen to that.

 

[raekwon]

Bookslover,
Are you wanting us to validate your getting an earring?
For what it's worth, I have one but I haven't worn it for several years.

No. I'm just curmudgeonly enough to think that, in our culture, earrings should be for females...

Which culture is that?

 

[Archlute]

Bookslover,
Are you wanting us to validate your getting an earring?
For what it's worth, I have one but I haven't worn it for several years.

No. I'm just curmudgeonly enough to think that, in our culture, earrings should be for females...

Which culture is that?

The culture which prevailed before relatively recent times when it then became marginally acceptable for men to wear women's jewelry in public.

 

[Vonnie Dee]

I won't say that it is wrong for men to wear earrings. However, the men in my life don't and I like it that way. I know some very manly men that wear earrings (pirates, Mr. Clean). However, I solidified my opinion on this when I was in the doctor's office. There was a child with long braided hair and earrings named Chris. I remarked that Chris was a pretty girl, much to his mother's dismay. I don't mean to of long hair on men, but long braided hair, earrings, and Chris? I felt like I had met a child's version of Pat from SNL.

 

[Sydnorphyn]

having an earing violates no biblical standards...let's all get'em

 

[blhowes]

I don't think guys wearing earings is a new thing. I'm 50, and I can remember two guys in high school who wore earings. Times must have been tough back then, 'cause each could only afford one earing. As I recall, both wore their earings on the left ear. Not sure why, maybe they were both right handed and it was easier to get it on that ear.

 

[Blueridge Believer]

As long as they carry a matching purse it's ok.

 

[blhowes]

As long as they carry a matching purse it's ok.

I agree. There's nothing worse than a guy wearing earings when their purse doesn't match. A bit tacky, if you ask me.

 

[blhowes]

It use to be a good argument that only sissies wore earings. Then, Michael Jordan and others like him started wearing them, so that blows that argument right out of the water!!!

<wondering>
So, if Michael started wearing high heels, does that mean its ok to...
</wondering>

 

[Ivan]

To those who wear earrings...well, that's their business. But this Bubba don't wear no earrrings.

Never did, never will.

 

[Amazing Grace]

As long as they carry a matching purse it's ok.

Its not a purse, it is a carry all.

I put holes in my ears to be a 'rebel'.. And once I met my wife, I pretty much doubled my inventory!!!!

 

[KMK]

It use to be a good argument that only sissies wore earings. Then, Michael Jordan and others like him started wearing them, so that blows that argument right out of the water!!!

<wondering>
So, if Michael started wearing high heels, does that mean its ok to...
</wondering>

Yeah...

That would be OK too.

Because, let's face it. MJ has more 'manliness' in his little pinky toe than any of us have in our entire bodies.

 

[Ivan]

Because, let's face it. MJ has more 'manliness' in his little pinky toe than any of us have in our entire bodies.

Not really. Take a closer look at his life, you may come up with a different conclusion.

 

[Amazing Grace]

I forget, what was the Gay ear? If a man wore a ring in what ear?

 

[blhowes]

I forget, what was the Gay ear? If a man wore a ring in what ear?

I seem to remember a saying, something like "Left is right, right is wrong" to help people remember. The right ear?

 

[DMcFadden]

I forget, what was the Gay ear? If a man wore a ring in what ear?

Gay ear? Is that part of the same rule as the one about rainbow avatars?

I always was too stuffy to do it myself. When one of my sons got them, I went a little postal (he had those big "plugs" for a time, the kind that look deformative). Now this son wears more modest sized earrings and it is fine with me. My other boys (the pastor and the lawyer) show no interest in ear decorations.

 

[Stephen]

I had four at this time. (2002) I still have the holes but I don't wear them any longer. I outgrew the desire to wear them. I rather like getting older and looking and acting my age.

Great picture, Randy. Did you have tatooes to go with the earrings?

 

[Stephen]

I forget, what was the Gay ear? If a man wore a ring in what ear?

Remember the line, left is right and right is wrong.

 

[Stephen]

I forget, what was the Gay ear? If a man wore a ring in what ear?

I seem to remember a saying, something like "Left is right, right is wrong" to help people remember. The right ear?

Sorry, I did not see your response to Amazing Grace. If you are going to wear an earring, never wear it in the right ear.

 

[blhowes]

Sorry, I did not see your response to Amazing Grace. If you are going to wear an earring, never wear it in the right ear.

<oops>
...switching ears...
</oops>

 

[Stephen]

As long as they carry a matching purse it's ok.

Its not a purse, it is a carry all.

I put holes in my ears to be a 'rebel'.. And once I met my wife, I pretty much doubled my inventory!!!!

Yes, thank you. Men have more junk to carry then women; cell phones, ipods, etc. It is fashionable for men in Europe to carry a carry all. I am sure men in Great Britian are carrying them, right Daniel Ritchie?

 

[Galatians220]

I forget, what was the Gay ear? If a man wore a ring in what ear?

I seem to remember a saying, something like "Left is right, right is wrong" to help people remember. The right ear?

Around here, it's "de rigueur" for a homosexual to wear an earring - if any - in the right ear only. Straight men, if they wear an earring (or two) wear them in the left ear only or in both ears. However, contra the whole concept, there's Deuteronomy 22:5 to consider. Of course, women don't usually wear only one earring... Want to make a lady panic? Tell her she's got only one earring on... Especially if that one is a real pearl... (It's happened to me.)

I personally don't like to see earrings on men and I wouldn't find a man attractive who wore one - or two. But then, what do I know? And I've been married, practically, since they all disembarked at Ararat anyway...

Margaret

 

[py3ak]

To me it seems that the question is not so much is this or that specific decoration appropriate but rather: why are men so concerned about their appearance? Obviously hygiene is important, but I have to admit I think it's rather strange when men will spend a long time getting their look right --especially when they work very hard to achieve a look of cool indifference.

Now I say this as a bearded individual (though that saves time) who only wears black pants, socks, and shoes and whose shirts are almost invariably gray, so I do have a look of my own. But it is a tremendously easy look to maintain.

 

[raekwon]

No. I'm just curmudgeonly enough to think that, in our culture, earrings should be for females...

Which culture is that?

The culture which prevailed before relatively recent times when it then became marginally acceptable for men to wear women's jewelry in public.

Really? That's "our" culture?

I don't buy it. Actually, I have a tough time buying any sort of argument that claims that we live in some sort of singular culture. The fact is, culture is splintered along all sorts of lines -- generational, geographic, racial, gender, political, affinity, and the list can go on and on. Now, of course, Christ reigns over all cultures, and scriptural commands and mandates apply to all cultures at all times, but . . . I have a really tough time believing that whether or not a man "should" wear earrings if he wishes is one of them.

Also, the idea that earrings are necessarily "women's jewelry" doesn't make much sense to me. It's like saying denim jeans are necessarily "men's pants". There are certainly some earrings that are designed for women, but there are others designed for men.

 

[ColdSilverMoon]

No. I'm just curmudgeonly enough to think that, in our culture, earrings should be for females...

Which culture is that?

The culture which prevailed before relatively recent times when it then became marginally acceptable for men to wear women's jewelry in public.

Take a look at some Renaissance era paintings and tell us if you still think earrings on men is a relatively recent phenomenon.

I don't wear earrings, but don't think there's anything good or bad about men wearing them...