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Does it offend you when people touch your hair?

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I usually dont mind friends and family. Never had a stranger touch my hair. I had one old lady touch my ear piercings:ohwell: it was odd.


Back to topic...I have a girlfriend who feels the NEED to pull my hair or squish it :wallbash::wallbash: it pisses me off. I'm usually left with a sore scalp... even after i reiterate DO NOT TOUCH MY HAIR...she finds some stupid coy way to grab it or squish it....

Irritates the HELL outta me
 
UGH. I can't stand when my stepmom yanks my hair. I know she is complimenting me and means well but it makes me sick. Esp if I am in the midst of detangling my hair or have a certain style she makes it worse. No matter how nice I can try to tell her to stop I know she will offended.

Sorry-I had to vent. lol

Complete strangers touching my hair is a no-no. :nono:
 
I don't even like strangers standing or sitting too close to me. I stopped strangers from touching my hair a long time ago. My hair was BSL when I was younger and people use to think it was okay to touch it because I was younger. I think that's one reason I started weaves. I let my mom touch it when I see her, but that's because she has hardly seen my real hair out and about in a long time.
 
I don't like it at all! Most people would not dare approach me to touch my hair with the mean looks I have some times anyway.:lachen:
 
Never had a stranger do it to me. But some folks I do know have. DH's sister and his neice are obsessed with outing women with weave. :rolleyes: Both have very long hair, and are the most brazen pair I have ever seen. They'll go up to anyone and start touching, feeling scalps and all. They both tried that on me, and I was like, "only my man gets that close honey!" :hand: :hand: Then the neice tried again a few months later, and I just shot a LOOK....and she backed the hell up. :lol:
 
I don't get 'offended'--I just don't like it.:ohwell:
1. No unsolicited touching. It annoys me---f'real. I'm space-conscious and I don't like random ppl touching me.

2. Most people DO NOT wash their hands properly! Especially men...:perplexed
I don't even like shaking hands with strangers much less having them touch my hair.

But---women will usually ask if I'm wearing a wig.
Brothas will try to 'pet' my hair. I had one dude do this to me at the club. "You're hair so pretty! All that yo hair....?"
Had his fingers all in my head. He just went for it.
Just dug in.
I was like, "What the---"
I practically threw his hands off like, "Ugh--don't do that....I don't like random ppl putting their hands on me..."
Ugh..
I ain't even gon say 'please'.
Just DON'T do it.
 
I used to get asked a lot by strangers if they could touch my hair, when it was relaxed. Most people asked if it was was my real hair or fake and said it look like a wig or baby doll hair. I think that is what started to offend me more than the touching....lol. Now, I find that since I went natural no one asks to touch my hair. Its amazing that now I get asked if I have a curly perm and what activator do I use!
 
It doesn't happen very often because I usually wear my hair up but the last time someone touched my hair uninvited when it was down got popped upside the head. Poor boy didn't even see it coming when I swung around and smacked him and yelled "What the hell is wrong with you?" :hardslap: People stopped and stared, his little friends laughed and ole boy ran away as fast as humanly possible. . .

I was pissed, I hate strangers touching me and I hate it even more when I'm pregnant. He's lucky he didn't lose a limb. :samurai:
 
I get a lot of attention here. It's the people is nice and just curious, I don't have an issue w/ them touching my hair. I normally can't understand what they are staying about it, but if done w/ a nod and smile, I'm cool.

But it does irk me when I tell people that I know that my hair is wet/oiled (aka greasy :lachen:) and they touch my hair anyway then wipe their hands. I'm like, "Didn't I tell you that my hair was WET!!" :rolleyes:
 
OMG..Reading you guys response has got me rolling. I used to be the same way before moving here (Japan). But it's definitely not uncommon for me to be sitting on a train going to Osaka and have a person sit next to me rub my arm or touch my hair as I am walking off the train....:rolleyes:
 
YES; with a capital: I-will-slit-you-from-nose-to-navel! :wallbash:

DO NOT pet me like an animal. :nono:

I am NOT here to satisfy your ethno-curiosity. :nono:

You WILL ask permission...and I WILL say NO. :lachen:

It angers me someone thinks they have a right to put their hands on my person regardless of race or gender without permission. It is inexecusable and inappropriate.

I do make exceptions for the elderly and the very young. :ohwell: Whom I will gently and politely "admonish". However, aside from that....

You DO know better. :naughty:

And my sword IS sharp.:owned:
 
I am disgusted, offended, and the idea of using my self defense capabilities on them runs through my mind.

People cough into their hands, sweat all over their palms, scratch parts of their body with their fingertips and nails, and put their fingers in their mouths through the course of the day without washing their hands. What right do they have to then put those grimy things in my hair. I have trained myself to dodge the hair tug/pull/fee/grabs people try to do to me. If I see it coming I duck immediately. I don't care if we are near stairs and it means someone falling down a flight cause I faked out and they reached too far. They could get knuckles in the mouth if they try a second time after I ducked. Homie don't play that. My hair could be a crispy funky rats nest with less strands than on my eyebrows and I still wouldn't allow someone to touch it.
 
My European co-workers (one in particular) touch my hair. I don't mind. I even purchased a tub of hair mayo for her curly hair :grin:
 
oooop2 said:
OMG..Reading you guys response has got me rolling. I used to be the same way before moving here (Japan). But it's definitely not uncommon for me to be sitting on a train going to Osaka and have a person sit next to me rub my arm or touch my hair as I am walking off the train....:rolleyes:
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You live in Osaka, Japan? You really have to tell us you hair stories now:grin:
 
My motto: Look But Don't Touch! :look:
My mother doesn't even touch it, (I mean it's okay if she did).
Otherwise, I understand some ppl are tempted to touch, (it's as if they have trigger fingers)...don't yield to temptation...just DON'T do it!
 
I don't like really any folx touching my hurrs. Especially if it has been recently washed and straightened. They can keep their dirty/oily/smelly hands on their own hair. Now obviously there are exceptions like my mom, dd, bf, etc...
 
oooop2 said:
OMG..Reading you guys response has got me rolling. I used to be the same way before moving here (Japan). But it's definitely not uncommon for me to be sitting on a train going to Osaka and have a person sit next to me rub my arm or touch my hair as I am walking off the train....:rolleyes:
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I'm not going to lie but that sounds so cute and funny :lachen: I am sure they are fascinated by the beauty which is YOU!
 
I wear my hair in a protective style everyday when going to work. Friday I got cornered in the bathroom and asked why I don't wear my hair out. And she proceeded to unravel my bun and drag her fingers through my hair. It happened so fast I didn't have time to react. I was livid.
 
No, I don't stand that close to people! I would somebody would touch me and I don't know them, I don't even like people I know to touch me. Sounds crazy but, I that's how sickness is passed, I have my own germs I don't need yours too!

It's called respect!
 
I've never had a complete stranger touch my hair. I wouldn't be offended but I definitely wouldn't like it.

I noticed my Asian friends touch my hair and comment on it a lot, especially if I haven't seen them in a while or if I'm wearing a braid out. I don't really like it but it's whatever as long as there's no tugging/pulling.

My aunt does it a lot also. But she's all in the roots, so I think she might be doing a weave check :look: I just get up and move away from her when she starts that mess.
 
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