<p>Recently stopped rinsing out the gray in my hair. It was a big decision to embrace my grayness. It felt like taking off tight shoes at the end of the day.</p>
<p>The ONLY place guys ever flirt with me is Vegas. They’re all drunk or blind there, apparently. I recommend it for the ego boost factor.</p>
<p>I will never NEVER stop covering my gray…and I started going gray at 13. Bizzarro genes or something. Yuck.</p>
<p>I’ve had the privilege of meeting Mini in person. I was recently reminded by one other CC parent that she met years ago at a conference about an issue that she, Mini, and I are interested in. </p>
<p>I look indistinguishable from most men in Minnesota.</p>
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<p>Do you wear your hair in bangs? From my frequent business trips to MN, I’ve noticed that it’s far more common for grown men to wear bangs in Minnesota than it is is California. I’m not sure why that is. Perhaps it’s just a midwest style statement.</p>
<p>The only place anyone tried to flirt with me was on a Naval Air Station in California. Supply and Demand I guess…</p>
<p>I just realised that I think of pretty much everyone as white unless they say otherwise >.<.</p>
<p>^^^^ I cannot understand your assumption. Why should a poster SAY otherwise? Should we all identify ourselves and our race? ethnicity? I can’t imagine the need to do so. Many posters who post here are not Caucasian but they understandably have no reason at all to announce their race/ethnicity. They might mention it in context but they do not necessarily make such information known in everyday discourse online and why would they? It is not as if they are hiding it but they also have no need to announce it otherwise. And if they do not “say so”, that doesn’t then follow that they are white. I don’t get what you are saying.</p>
<p>I imagined soozie as being very petite with short blonde hair. I DO picture us all as youngerr than we probably are–the parents, that is.</p>
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<p>I did think you were a guy. Thought the same thing about wolfpiper–no idea why.</p>
<p>I guess being from India she may have pre-conceived notion that since Whites are the dominant group in US everyone is white. Many people here think that if you are from India you a vegetarian Hindu.</p>
<p>bethie, now that you met me in person, you can see that I am not very petite or blonde! But the image was nice while it lasted!</p>
<p>That’s interesting. There are actually a few posters I always think of as black. Maybe from the threads they post in quickest, I guess.</p>
<p>I don’t think OneCurlyFry was implying that they SHOULD say otherwise. She was just admitting to making an assumption. Simba has a good point about her location perhaps influencing her thoughts.</p>
<p>On my part, I don’t think I make assumptions about race or ethnicity for the most part. I do make assumptions about gender, and am occasionally surprised. I also make assumptions about age, and am usually pretty close.</p>
<p>My D sent me this link the other day. I think it has some interesting points that might pertain here to why we picture people a certain way. (I also think it is lacking some important considerations, but that’s for another discussion.)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news/article/view/1821[/url]”>http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news/article/view/1821</a></p>
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<p>Interesting question. Yes, I don’t generally comb my hair over to one side, and I think you are correct that a lot of other men here don’t either.</p>
<p>I have been wrong many times in assuming a poster is male or female. When a lot of time has gone by and I have assumed they were on particular sex and find out much later that they were the opposite sex, it is hard to transition into realizing they are not the sex I had thought them to be the entire time.</p>
<p>Some of us don’t have enough hair to even dream about bangs. :)</p>
<p>Maybe on the personal info listed below a person’s posting name, there should be a line for gender.</p>
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<p>Yes, that’s exactly what I was doing! I just thought it was kind of interesting I meant, I know everyone here isn’t white, they can’t be. I was trying to imagine what each of you looked like, and then realised that I was imagining all white people, except Northstarmom, and I found that interesting enough to post here. Sorry for being open to misinterpretation. I have quite a few Hispanic and African-American friends, so yeah, I was even more surprised.</p>
<p>I am actually a chicken loving atheist =). For future information :P.</p>
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<p>I think maybe it’s because of the baseball caps… ;)</p>
<p>I always imagined Simba to be black, since simba is the Swahili word for lion.</p>
<p>But then hey, my own screen name is a French word, and I’m not French.</p>
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<p>Ever talked to a single woman living in Alaska? “The odds are good, but the goods are odd.”</p>