This still infuriates me.

[iradney]

If someone touches me without my permission, they should be able to deal with the fact that I'll remove their hand - without their permission. Or anaesthetic.
I suppose another thing I would do (if it's in a public place) is scream "Get your hands off me, you pervert!"
Nothing like public humiliation

[JustADude]

Great, this thread is making me SERIOUSLY miss my long hair. It's getting almost to the point I can tie it back again, but before I had to have it cut for a job it was down past the small of my back. For me, that's ~32" hair... all gone. Ah well, at least it went to Locks of Love.

On another note, the one time I got my hair grabbed (as opposed to being played with by women who have asked permission) the guy was deliberately being an ass. Not only did he grab and YANK, but he made a very homophobic, narrow-minded crack about only "queers" having long hair. As per usual with these situations all it took to get him to scram was for me to stand up and give him a death-glare.

I was severely tempted to do bodily violence to him, though... more because a female friend that had just "come out" was sitting across the table from me at the time than for the actual annoyance to myself.

[tangrid]

I've been growing my hair out for awhile now, since the last job I had (more than 2 years ago, wow...) that required me to wear it short. It's gotten to the point now that I make it clear that my hair is more important than the job when I interview, so they know that they're not getting me to cut it under any circumstances. I hate the people who think long hair's only for females, or that I'm just a "Worthless, longhaired hippy" (a quote from a horribly lazy coworker, I might add). A big part of my love for my hair is the fact that my dad went bald in his late twenties (I'm 23) and if I won't have the opportunity to wear it long later in life, I'm damn sure gonna do so now. Never really had problems with people touching my hair, but then again, most people can't sneak up on me, and the ones that I do let come up behind me know better than to touch me without warning, unless they want to meet the pavement shortly after (I grew up skinny, and had to teach people via quick reflexes and knowledge of pressure points that I wasn't an easy target).

[Jester]

'But I WANT to buy it from HERE!"

And I want to do all my shopping in one place. Please, tell me, where can I get used books, beer, high end rum, food, haircuts, clothes, good bagels, great pizza, wonderful sushi, bicycling supplies, kitchen supplies, sports apparel, magic supplies, goofy costumes, funny t-shirts, DVD's, accessories for my truck, cheap airline tickets, watch movies, watch sports, sunbathe, and where I can also pay my rent and all my bills all in the same place. Please, do tell, I'd love to find this place.

Oh, what's that? It doesn't exist? Well, that store doesn't sell henna, and they're not about to start just because you stomp your foot and say you want them to. Grow up lady. And stop touching people you don't know. It's ridiculous.

[coldcupofjoe]

And I want to do all my shopping in one place. Please, tell me, where can I get used books, beer, high end rum, food, haircuts, clothes, good bagels, great pizza, wonderful sushi, bicycling supplies, kitchen supplies, sports apparel, magic supplies, goofy costumes, funny t-shirts, DVD's, accessories for my truck, cheap airline tickets, watch movies, watch sports, sunbathe, and where I can also pay my rent and all my bills all in the same place.

This place does exsist. All this and more is availaible somewhere on the internet. (Except maybe the sushi and alcohol. But maybe even those.)

[Broomjockey]

This place does exsist. All this and more is availaible somewhere on the internet. (Except maybe the sushi and alcohol. But maybe even those.)

I was going to say that, but I don't think they sell haircuts on the internet. And also the sunbathing. Though with a laptop w/ wifi, you could go outside, I guess.

[Tigress]

I've had long hair off and on throughout my life, deciding to keep it long when I got to high school. My parents had the biggest obsession with my getting it cut and styled. The few times I've let them bully me into it, it was a disaster that left me looking like a poodle. The chemicals made me feel ill and burned my scalp. And my hair strands are so thin that they don't keep a perm for more than a few days, a week at most.

Now I refuse to set foot in a salon and only trim my hair to control split ends, which I don't get much of now that I refuse to keep "product" and curling irons in the house and let my hair air dry. The only time I'd do that is to get it dyed, because I don't trust myself to do it on my own without making a huge mess.

[JLG]

Reminds me of the time I was standing at the service desk and someone comes over and puts their arm around my shoulder and I am thinking it is an associate. I turn and it is a customer who just wanted to tell me or whisper to me that the store looks clean

It suprised me and I just stood there and said thanks and she walked off.

[Nayeli_Sabia]

Now I refuse to set foot in a salon and only trim my hair to control split ends, which I don't get much of now that I refuse to keep "product" and curling irons in the house and let my hair air dry.

Same here! I have some friends who are shocked I don't own a hairdryer, or even hairspray/gel, lol. Don't use it, don't need it, don't spend money on it ^_^

[Interior Desecrator]

In my opinion, your hair is just another part of your body. I wouldn't go up and grab a guy's ass just because "I like it." So, don't go grabbing someone's hair because you think it's pretty!

Also, tangrid, it's my understanding that baldness genes actually transfer from mother to son. So you might have long hair for years and years to come.

[greensinestro]

It's amazing, but shortly after I began seeing this thread, I was reading "The 5th Horseman" by James Patterson, part of the Women's Murder Club series. The main character mentioned one of the victims as a woman with a hennaed hairdo. You see words like this, then read them somewhere else.

[Primer]

A big part of my love for my hair is the fact that my dad went bald in his late twenties (I'm 23) and if I won't have the opportunity to wear it long later in life, I'm damn sure gonna do so now.

Actually, the gene for male pattern baldness is passed down from the mother. If you have any uncles that have gone bald, then you need to worry!

And I want to do all my shopping in one place. Please, tell me, where can I get used books, beer, high end rum, food, haircuts, clothes, good bagels, great pizza, wonderful sushi, bicycling supplies, kitchen supplies, sports apparel, magic supplies, goofy costumes, funny t-shirts, DVD's, accessories for my truck, cheap airline tickets, watch movies, watch sports, sunbathe, and where I can also pay my rent and all my bills all in the same place. Please, do tell, I'd love to find this place.

Well, I did almost open up a store with a barber friend. We were going to call it "Hamburgers, Haircuts, and Hentai." Don't know how much of the rest of your list we might have carried, though.

[Jester]

I wouldn't go up and grab a guy's ass just because "I like it."

Actually, there are a LOT of guys that really won't object to that.

At all.

Not one bit, really.

No sirree, Bob.

[Seshat]

Same here! I have some friends who are shocked I don't own a hairdryer, or even hairspray/gel, lol. Don't use it, don't need it, don't spend money on it ^_^

Me neither. Though I do have good leave-in conditioner, and a conditioning 'styling aid' that helps me keep my braids neat in just-washed hair.

My best friend's hair won't hold a braid without styling-aid assistance, though. It really irritates her.

[XCashier]

Actually, there are a LOT of guys that really won't object to that.

At all.

Not one bit, really.

No sirree, Bob.

Even if the grabber weighs 900 pounds, hasn't bathed or brushed teeth since the Nixon administration and has a noticeable mustache?