This will be the last episode of the getting bullied series of my childhood. Doesn’t mean that these were the only things.
As the title says, yes, I was bullied even for the short hair. My mother never let me have long hair as a child. I don’t blame her for this. I blame the mindset of the society that wants a female to have long hair in order to be included in the realms of society, doesn’t matter which age you belong to. Even a child isn’t spared.
And this practise of inclusion/exclusion is not limited to one gender but both.
How silly it would be to wake up as a human one day and you’re given this handbook of guidelines according to your gender, and you are commanded to follow all these otherwise you shall be an outcast.
My book of guidelines is still sitting there in the corner of my table, with only few pages read and few pages torn.