(February 8, 2017 at 4:47 pm)Violet Wrote:(February 8, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Jello Wrote: I'm not judging you for your way of raising people, i'm merely curious as to why you think someone's choice in hair colour dictates whether or not they will be successful, and that it automatically makes them and their parents bad people? Like i mentioned, therapists of friends of mine have all kinds of coloured hair, unless of course, your idea of "successful" is narrow as all fuck to a select category of jobs. "successful" to me just means you're not doing some menial labour job in the middle of fuck off nowhere, because you can't get a better job, and that you can actually afford to keep your family happy and able to live somewhere without issues.
It doesn't necessarily make their parents bad people... but I certainly don't agree that children should be allowed to dye their hair fantastic colours if the parents are looking to see their children succeed in the most well-paying fields, as early abandonment of the cultural norms of professional presentation is not guaranteed to be without risk of blowing those interviews in later life.
Sure, you could teach them later, such as in highschool, that's your right. I personally believe that it's better to maintain standards from an early age.
Furthermore... with the way that the child in question's parents HAVE massively publicized the fact that their child is trans? Unless there's a cultural shift coming in the future where that literally won't be an issue with anyone anywhere: it stands to reason that the child could see significant flak for publicly being trans. That's probably why it bothers me so much in this case... not only is the child outed to the whole world, but the parents think that pink hair on their child is acceptable. This case raises so many questions for me that even the little things (child having pink hair) start to look like further evidence of bad parenting.
And, that wouldn't be my measure of success. That would be a verrrrry long thread, however.
You're still not explaining why pink hair = bad, in the slightest, other than you have the opinion that they cannot be successful because of it, which is also unsubstantiated
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."