Long hair, don’t care – Mum fed up with rude comments about her boys' locks
A Perth mother of six thinks her three eldest boys’ flowing locks are “fabulous”, and is fed up with strangers insisting she cut their hair just because they “look like girls”.
Chloe Dunstan, video blogger and online personality with more than 321,000 followers on Instagram, and 35,000 on Facebook, has publicly questioned why other parents to cared about her children’s genders.
Ms Dunstan said others have warned the three boys, aged four, three and two would be picked on, but their mother believes it is the duty of parents to teach their kids not to bully others for how they look.
“I will never teach my kids that they should change the way they are just to avoid comments from small minded people,” she wrote on Facebook on Wednesday, adding that her boys’ hair was “fabulous”.
“There is actually no reason you need to know what a child has between their legs. No reason. At all.”
“My kids are clean, comfortable, kind, healthy, happy and confident with who they are. This is what matters most.”
The mum said she is not bothered about strangers often mistaking her boys for girls.
“I just say, ‘oh, they're actually boys’ and the kind people say ‘oh okay, oops!’ and the a**holes say ‘BOYS? ARE YOU SURE?’ .. Yes I'm sure.”
She went on to say one of her 11-month-old twins has short hair and people sometimes mistake her for a boy.
“Guess I should buy her a wig or something?” she joked.
Ms Dunstan revealed the double standards her sons suffer as the subject of “rude” comments nobody would dare say about little girls.
“Sometimes people tell us it needs to be cut off because it's too heavy, uncomfortable, too hot or unclean when it's long; if that's the case, I'm just wondering why we shouldn't shave girls' hair off too?
“Is it because boys are allowed to be more comfortable than girls? And girls should sacrifice comfort for aesthetics?”
She said her boys like their luscious manes and she ensures they are always “clean, comfortable, kind, healthy, happy and confident with who they are” as a priority.
“Thor has long hair,” she mused “and last time I checked people really like Thor.”
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