Is it normal for a man to have long fingernails?
Every now and then I see a man who has a few or all of his fingernails grown out to a considerable length, and it strikes me as sort of gross. A woman with long nails, fine. A man with long nails, ewwww!
When I was in college there was this one older student, a 50ish man, long hair and beard, and he often had all his fingernails grown out half an inch. I'd see him in the library or around campus and he seemed quite unselfconscious about it, waving his hands as he was talking with someone, etc. Then one time just as the fall semester was beginning, he was right ahead of me in line at the cafeteria, and I saw he must have been letting his nails grow all summer, because now he had all of his nails grown out at least three-quarters of an inch. At that length even he seemed to be embarrassed, moving his hands as if trying to hide his long fingernails from the girls who were serving food to the line.