Originally Posted by
HintOfMint
2. At what length do total strangers tell you to cut your hair and donate it?
I don't believe that has ever happened to me. Frankly, being Indian helps stave off those kinds of comments because many assume that having long hair is culturally or religiously significant to us, so telling us to cut our hair would be pretty gauche.
However, once in high school, we had a substitute teacher on the day Locks of Love came to our school to do some public shearing. He looked around our class and noted "how many young ladies still have such long hair," as a way to shame girls into cutting their hair for a so-called charity. However, at the time I had my hair shorter than a bob, closer to ear length. He looked at me and went, "oh you're cool." Of course, I was 14 and a complete jerk so I felt rather smug at the time. Looking back it was a horribly inappropriate thing for a teacher to say to a bunch of 14 year olds.
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