Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26158309-20150301121424/@comment-5888498-20150403204105

To the OP: Honestly, I haven't seen such poor quality in a comment ever since... I don't know. And look, I'm not even a native English speaker.

He's a expert programmer/hikikomori/genius (considering how the anime character standard for harem/romance goes...) and he has his own style. He doesn't depend on what the society thinks or imposes to him. Such "social engineering" (how someone should look, wear, act, think, etc) doesn't work for those who at least think for a while, and values their personal freedom.

Also, if it was exclusively related to some unspoken gender issue, we would see it in depth, such as Rukako (Steins Gate). As a sidenote let's remember a bit about Japanese (and Asian overall) history, before western tradition became the norm, males had really long hair.