i think that is a great topic, and yes i know people are, i sense it. first my hair is my one favorite features,I'm very vein about it, and i swear i'm not the same person without it. i know cuz they cut it off when i was at the airforce academy during basic training. My personalty didnt return to full force till it grew back a few years later. It stays between my mid back and shoulders usually. I find my self putting it up to tone myslef done and blend in, or turn off the lights so to say. If i want to be seen and have my presence felt, it comes down. I live in hawaii, and your hair (male and female) is considred a source of mana (hawaiian for power/stregnth). To me that is eaxctly what it is. I spend a lot of effort taking care of it because of this. I think if your hair gives you mana and it puts off a feeling of stregnth and power, then it does probably intimidate others. I certainly use it for this... to stand my ground. I mean come on a lion wouldnt seem the same without its mane...hair is power. I know thats why they make women keep their hair up in some countrys such as India as well. Theres definetly something to it. I think the most i ever noticed was when i was in spain, the spanish really like long blonde hair for one. and I found that it intimidated the girls there very much and attracted the men with a since of awe.