Why do so many LGBTQ kids dye their hair purple/pink/blue?
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Anonymous
It makes total sense. You asked why a Catholic school wouldn’t allow it, and PP responded that Catholics can be repressive because of something about Jesus. |
Anonymous
Except that poster’s Catholic school does allow it. As do many others. |
Anonymous
DP. I know at least 15, including boys. I'm not sure about this year, but last year and the year before many of the kids in my kids' elementary school had their hair dyed blue, green or pink. To my knowledge, none of them were trans. |
Anonymous
| It's funny how OP was walking around thinking she was surrounded by LGBT kids who are not. |
Anonymous
Maybe back when you were a kid they were doing it to be "unique and special," now they do it because it's a fun fad. Remember how many people had permed hair because it was a fad? It's similar. Why all the judgment? It's harmless. |
Anonymous
| my daughter and a bunch of her friends went through a phase of dying a stripe in their hair around 10. It would be weird to assume they're all LBGTQ. |
Anonymous
That’s irrelevant. It still makes sense. PP asked “why wouldn’t they allow it” and someone responded with a reason why they wouldn’t. |
Anonymous
Ha ha ha.  They have tons of friends their age as well as family friends from all kinds of different religions, backgrounds, orientations, SES, politics, ethnicity, skin color, and more. We are very socially open minded and progressive and live in DC.
 I mean come on, you don't have to look a certain way to be open minded or progressive. That is juts a crazy thing to think. So, I personally am not a fan of wildly colored hair, tattoos or body piercing beyond the ears. I dont like the way it looks. My kids don't either which means I dont have to see it in my own home which is nice. I don't care if someone else does it. Plus, if my kids wanted to dye their hair a wild color, I wouldn't say no.
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Anonymous
| BY THE WAY - its not just Catholic schools. Many mainstream private schools don't allow it either: not part of the dress code , or looks crappy, or is distracting, or just isn't done - pick whatever reason you want. Private schools can make whatever rules they want and don't have to justify them. |
Anonymous
What in Catholic Do time would prohibit allowing a student to come to school with dyed hair? |
Anonymous
| Doctrine not do time |
Anonymous
Except Catholic schools do allow it. So the answer to "why wouldn't they allow it" is "there is no reason not to allow it, but I have a stereotype of Catholic schools that leads me to imagine that they don't." Not "Jesus, duh", because if Catholics felt Jesus were a reason not to allow it, they wouldn't allow it, so since they do, then they clearly don't believe that. |
Anonymous
PP here lemme clear up what I mean. Obviously Jesus was totally cool with all people as he was friends with prostitutes and tax collectors. I'm sure he loves self expression and hair dye. But Christianity is often used as a tool of repression. And yay if there are some Catholic schools that don't have a strict hair or dress code. But certainly that hasn't been the norm and isn't always the case now as PPs have stated. And Catholicism isn't alone in this stupid repression either of course. I grew up in the south so I've seen some ridiculous Southern Bapstist BS. Summary: Jesus cool Organized Christianity uses his name to be repressive |
Anonymous
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My niece started with blue hair as a teen, she's 33 now (mentioned her in a diff thread and realized I got her age wrong). She had epilepsy and was viciously hassled by other kids, dropped out at 16. Her school only allowed hair to be dyed in colors that were natural for hair, regardless of whether it was the person's own hair color. Some shrink accused her of using hair and clothes to rebel or something when she was 18 and she hit back with the fact that she had TRIED to look normal and everyone was mean to her anyway.
It has become very mainstream. I work with a young woman who makes her appearance a major project. She often goes for a 50's retro effect with twists (like $800 sweaters that look 50s but have an applique or something that would never have been used then, no idea where she shops). When she started she was platinum blonde but the color changes at least once a week, currently a cotton-candy-ish frosty pink and blue that is actually lovely. My other niece, who IS LGBTQ (a major surprise to her parents when she came out halfway thru her freshman year) and NEVER rebelled as a teen, also changes her hair color frequently but started many years after her straight sister. Sometimes they do a silvery white I find odd--Barbara Bush on a 20-something. |
Anonymous
| Because being lgbtq is not always an orientation. It’s a subculture, (one closely aligned with funky hair color crowd) and for whatever reasons sometimes people who are not actually born gay decide they want to be part of that subculture. |