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I’m pretty sure every time I’ve done an archive crawl in the past, I didn’t really get this page because I’d literally never heard of this stereotypical “white” behavior before (and I’m 38).
It’s very much something that doesn’t necessarily happen outside the USA.
I’ve heard that it does, but “in general” no one besides Merkins is rude enough to approach a total stranger to touch hair. In most cultures, you have to be intimate to do intimate things. Duh. (Or dominant to do dominant things, but that’s either hidden, for the most part, in the past, or behind closed doors.)
I always thought it fell under a similar category as people always wanting to touch pregnant women’s bellies, or asking inappropriate questions.
I agree that one should be close to a person before making such requests, the big problem in my opinion, are the people whom don’t bother to even ask first and just reach out. One implication of this sort of behavior is that the person is not a person but somehow public property. I’ve seen the same treatment of the disabled, service animals (never try to pet a service animal while it is working unless given specific permission by its handler) children and women by men. What always strikes me as strange is if reprimanded for this sort of thing, the person doing it is often offended to be told not to touch without permission.
Always figured it was more due to Rocky not having hair, and because Maggie has her hair in a (relatively) unusual style
Yeah, I work with the public and have seen far too much of the worst behavior possible from people.
Well yes, the fact that she has no hair herself IS why Rocky might want to touch Maggie’s hair, but she’s also making a joke about this cliché of white people’s behavior, quoting the exact phrase, etc.
(Also… may or may not have been something SHE was asked a lot by white people around her, even her foster families, back when she still had hair… I might need to backcheck Rocky’s timeline for that. I’m forgetting exactly when she started pulling it out; before or after foster care…)
For as many years as she can remember, and when she hit puberty she learned the hard way to keep the hair in those places shaved because it is really not fun to wake up from the pain of ripping such hair in your sleep.