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Sarokrae comments on Call for Anonymous Narratives by LW Women and Question Proposals (AMA) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Alicorn 12 September 2012 06:14:32PM 2 points [-]

Textures are fascinating. I like touching people's hair in general; it's neat as long as it isn't full of goop. (I ask first.) So far this hasn't happened to come up with any black people except one I was dating whose hair I could consequently touch very incidentally, but yeah, this is supposedly a thing and it would make me nervous about asking a black friend if I could touch their hair.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 September 2012 07:47:46PM 1 point [-]

Try to Feel It My Way, a book about touch-dominant people-- those who have touching as a major way of relating to the world.

Comment author: chaosmosis 12 September 2012 06:53:44PM 0 points [-]

I have no idea what you look like, but despite that I just had a mental image of you looking absolutely enraptured staring at someone else's hair, and playing with it sort of like a cat might (I have never had a cat). This amused me a lot.

Comment author: Alicorn 12 September 2012 06:54:35PM *  2 points [-]

I'm sure I've cat-batted hair in the past, but I'm more likely to braid it or just pet it.

(Cats are known to bat at my hair, though!)