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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Probably comes from skinhead culture. This is the reason for the baldness Wikipedia has:

For instance, the defining skinhead short haircut mostly emerged in reaction to the perceived shift in men's styles away from traditional masculinity, which was embodied by the "middle-class, peace-loving, long-haired student" of the hippie movement.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_skinhead