I feel everything you say about the hair. Our entire bodies are public, but especially the hair. People feel comfortable touching it without permission, commenting on what hair cut (or not) you should have.
My hair has finally returned to a length in which it looks like I deliberately had a short hair cut and now I'm asked to keep growing it, so that it can go back to this (this is from 2006): http://eumelia.livejournal.com/35947.html#cutid1 I shaved it all off a few months later and was lauded as "brave", though I was told I looked like I had cancer or looked like a holocaust survivor - basically being shamed back into the feminine paradigm.
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My hair has finally returned to a length in which it looks like I deliberately had a short hair cut and now I'm asked to keep growing it, so that it can go back to this (this is from 2006): http://eumelia.livejournal.com/35947.html#cutid1
I shaved it all off a few months later and was lauded as "brave", though I was told I looked like I had cancer or looked like a holocaust survivor - basically being shamed back into the feminine paradigm.
It sucks.