I'm REALLY Sick Of This
Jun. 18th, 2005 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarOkay....so yeah, I have purple hair (Formerly pink, fuschia, magenta, pink and orange, and for about a minute last week, royal blue). People are going to ask questions and look at me funny and stuff. That's fine.. If i'm going to dye my hair crazy colors, I have to accept that. I can do that.
What I CANNOT accept is people just coming up to me on the street and touching my hair whilst making said comments. What gives people the nerve to think that this is okay? Once, last...um..Sunday I think it was? Whatever, the day doesn't matter, 3 eople walked past me on the street. On the way past, one guy reaches out and touches my hair, kinda runs his fingrs through a smalll section of it. By the time I realized this and kinda recovered from the shock, (No one's ever done that before, it's usually women coming up to me nd asking about hair dye and whatnot) they were gone and I couldn't really say anyhitng then.
I'm a pretty touchy-feely person, but this is just not cool. In some environments, this is okay...but "some environments" is not walking down the streets of Baltimore. (Or wherever)
Often, it's someone coming up from behind me, which really adds to the creepiness factor, and I can't duck out of the way, and when I say something objecting, I sometimes get an apology, but more often I get a "Lighten up, I just wanted to see what your hair feels like" response...which is horrible. It would be completely differnt if they were to ask, but not asking...it's almost like an assault of sorts.
Anyone have any insight into why people would just do this?
What I CANNOT accept is people just coming up to me on the street and touching my hair whilst making said comments. What gives people the nerve to think that this is okay? Once, last...um..Sunday I think it was? Whatever, the day doesn't matter, 3 eople walked past me on the street. On the way past, one guy reaches out and touches my hair, kinda runs his fingrs through a smalll section of it. By the time I realized this and kinda recovered from the shock, (No one's ever done that before, it's usually women coming up to me nd asking about hair dye and whatnot) they were gone and I couldn't really say anyhitng then.
I'm a pretty touchy-feely person, but this is just not cool. In some environments, this is okay...but "some environments" is not walking down the streets of Baltimore. (Or wherever)
Often, it's someone coming up from behind me, which really adds to the creepiness factor, and I can't duck out of the way, and when I say something objecting, I sometimes get an apology, but more often I get a "Lighten up, I just wanted to see what your hair feels like" response...which is horrible. It would be completely differnt if they were to ask, but not asking...it's almost like an assault of sorts.
Anyone have any insight into why people would just do this?
