Many shallow and superficial people (both men and women) seem to be so obsessed with my haircut or with my hair or to be more precise the lack thereof. I often have the impression that some of them spend more time thinking about my hair than I do. What makes them think that the fact that my style is different gives them the right to ask me to justify it? I stopped counting how many times I have been asked since when I have been wearing my hair this short and why. My answer to the latter question is always the same: "because I like it this way, duh" - even though they accept this reply, it is quite obvious that they were expecting to hear something else. Most of them would never admit that they assume that women with "a man's haircut" want to be men because they are too ashamed of their primitive reasoning. A couple of (bi-curious/gay) women have asked me to look at them and hold still so that they could imagine what I would like with long hair. A few men have asked me to do them a favor and to let my hair grow (at least a little bit). I always refuse. I would never change something about myself because somebody doesn't like it.
A few weeks ago I heard a drunk man shouting behind me "if she's a girl, why does she have short hair like a man?". Right, men have naturally short hair, they don't need to shorten it. How could I forget that? :D
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