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"Amusingly, dying my hair some odd shade of purple has been highly beneficial: the dirty old men are scared of me, nice folks seem more willing to approach me. One day i had a little old lady on the bus tell me straight-up that she only asked me for directions because she never met any jerks with bright hair." -- heinousbitca, 2007-12-11

[I decided to move the preceeding quote earlier in the queue after I read the following one. :-)]

"[...] So I'm going oh shit oh shit oh shit as I hand him my license calmly, because other than speeding I have definitely not done anything wrong; my license is my real driver's license with a real picture of me on it and I happen to not look like that picture anymore because I have short hair and a beard now, but there's nothing illegal about that, so there's no reason for me to deal with a problem that hasn't actually even happened yet. And, sure enough, he didn't say anything about the gender or the photo not looking like me.

"Because you know why? I HAVE FREAKING PURPLE HAIR. Nobody questions why someone with purple hair doesn't look like the photo on their license, and cops don't care what gender they 'mistook' you for once they realize you're just a kid with purple hair. It's obvious that I have cut my hair and dyed it purple since that photo was taken. Nobody expects you to look like your license photo when you have purple hair, no matter what gender they thought you were before they noticed the hair."

-- peaceofpie, 2007-12-29

[Y'know, I wasn't considering it before, but now I wonder whether I ought to die my hair purple too ...]

"Amusingly, dying my hair some odd shade of purple has been highly beneficial: the dirty old men are scared of me, nice folks seem more willing to approach me. One day i had a little old lady on the bus tell me straight-up that she only asked me for directions because she never met any jerks with bright hair." -- heinousbitca, 2007-12-11

[I decided to move the preceeding quote earlier in the queue after I read the following one. :-)]

"[...] So I'm going oh shit oh shit oh shit as I hand him my license calmly, because other than speeding I have definitely not done anything wrong; my license is my real driver's license with a real picture of me on it and I happen to not look like that picture anymore because I have short hair and a beard now, but there's nothing illegal about that, so there's no reason for me to deal with a problem that hasn't actually even happened yet. And, sure enough, he didn't say anything about the gender or the photo not looking like me.

"Because you know why? I HAVE FREAKING PURPLE HAIR. Nobody questions why someone with purple hair doesn't look like the photo on their license, and cops don't care what gender they 'mistook' you for once they realize you're just a kid with purple hair. It's obvious that I have cut my hair and dyed it purple since that photo was taken. Nobody expects you to look like your license photo when you have purple hair, no matter what gender they thought you were before they noticed the hair."

-- peaceofpie, 2007-12-29

[Y'know, I wasn't considering it before, but now I wonder whether I ought to die my hair purple too ...]