• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Here’s a bonus I saw at college: “Can I touch your hair?” it’s an especially weird one.

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      I was blonde growing up in a middle eastern country and people used to want to touch my hair all the time. It’s just curiosity.

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      I’m a Latino and I grew out my hair during the pandemic with the goal of donating it. My hair comes out curly when it is long. One day, when we were back to seeing people face to face, a black woman asked if she could touch my hair. I was a little surprised that she asked, lol.

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      white guy here.

      I had a lady do that to me and my beard in college.

      it was weird at the time but scratched a physical contact itch I had no idea I had. the interaction started a long lasting infatuation with black matriarchs.

      my point is, it’s fine to tell people no because it’s a limit of yours, but some people get curious about things that are new(to them) and it shouldn’t be held against them. who knows you might even like it.

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        The problem is volume. You had one interaction years ago. Black ladies get this sort of thing a lot more. I’m sure it gets exhausting.

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      Speaking of touching hair, this isn’t really related but what are you supposed to do when holding a baby?
      Like I held my family members baby the other day at Thanksgiving and my brain just defaulted to petting their nearly bald head like my cat 😭

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        I think that’s normal, actually. Little kids like affection and caressing their bald head qualifies. I’m not sure what age that ends, though.

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        I don’t have kids, but a friend of mine that does commented I sway while carrying a cat in the way someone holding a baby does.

        I guess that’s more proof part of the domestication that went on with cats is that they somehow signal “baby” to our minds.

        It makes sense it goes the other way too.