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Life definitely isn't that serious
YMMV.
But there's definitely a cohort of very angry people who will scream at you for dying your hair, getting tattoos, or dressing outside the business casual uniform we've been assigned since graduation. "Blue hairs" is practically a slur on the internet. And heaven help you if you're a woman with a bit of goth-tier flare.
I also thought that blue hairs meant old ladies, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_rinse but I guess I'm just aging myself...
Fuck, same here. I was wondering where all these old, progressive people were hiding.
Vermont, USA. They're stereotyped as old progressive hippy hillbillies for a reason. It's a gorgeous place with lovely people
I think people who use „blue hair“ as a slur don’t do so because they actually have a problem with the colour but with the progressive views that a lot of blue hair wearing people subscribe to.
In the UK, it was standard for a while for women with grey/white hair to get a "blue rinse" which presumably did something to the look of the hair.
As you say, the same population were generally held to have reactionary views, part of the 'drift right'.
They therefore became known as the blue rinse brigade, a right of centre voting block.
Blue toner evens out coppery colors, so if they had any bleaching done to lighten the non-gray and homogenize their color, the blue toner would even it out.
However, grey hair that has been “opened up” with chemical treatment but has no color of its own to compliment/cover will pick up a blue tint.
Idk why it’s not common anymore; maybe because stylists know better, maybe products are better, or maybe they just use pre-formulated dyes now instead of multi-step.
Potato tomato
"Blue hair means you have progressive views" is far more a right-wing meme than any kind of reality. Its more tied to people in the service industry, in college, or otherwise in a career path that lets you have an exotic hair color without putting your job at risk. Teenagers out in the sticks would dye their hair all the time and still have deeply reactionary views. FFS, christian missionaries dyed their hair all the time back in the Bush Era, often as a means of looking cooler and more "relatable" to young people.
It got picked up by a particular corner of the Men's Rights forums and recirculated until it started popping up in the Brietbart- and Rogan-spheres.
At its heart, the hate for people (almost always women or effeminate men) with hair dye is just misogyny.
That OP's screencap profile is a young woman complaining that you can't dye your hair and have a bit of fun without getting dumped on isn't a coincidence.
Yeah, I'm a little older and didn't know what being called a blue hair meant. The full insult was "limp wristed blue hair" for having the audacity to suggest, let me check my notes, ICE identify themselves.
"Limp wrist" is slang for gay
I knew that one, I actually told the person to call me what they really wanted to, shut them up pretty quick.
Someone gives you shit about your brightly-dyed hair color, remind them that animals and bugs wear bright colors to repel predators, so it's working, and it tells you what they are!