Weird hairy things

In my quest for The Perfect Haircolor I have been reading several hair-related web forums lately, and they turned out to be so interesting that I'll probably find a few more. It's quite fun to read about all the unnatural acts that people perform on their hair, and to read all the unbelievable questions (such as "I am trying to grow my hair long, I trim a centimeter off every month, how come it's not growing?"), but the social observations are a lot more fun:

One board had an off-topic discussion on whether women prefer men with a lot of body hair or without (the results were that 35% like body hair, 29% dislike it and 36% don't care). Of the women who like body hair on men about a third have commented that they want "a real man", "a manly man", "a man and not a teenage boy", etc., in other word implied that hairless men are somehow "lesser" than hairy ones. It's not unusual for people to somehow praise their own preferences and disparage those of other people, but the interesting thing was that only the women who preferred the hairy men did that: none of the ones who prefer hairless men made any comparisons with gorillas, and even the ones who don't care either way did not chew other people out for caring.

Another weird thing that is talked about on hair boards: disobedient hairdressers. The reports of hairdressers who do thing A when told to do thing B are very common. This is quite amazing in itself, but the more amazing thing is that people who report it almost universally say that they paid for the haircut and then went home to cry without expressing their disapproval in any way, as opposed to, say, leaping out of the chair and readjusting the hairdresser's attitude with a heavy or sharp object, or at least yelling and demanding to see the manager. What's wrong with these people? Some of them even said that they were afraid to hurt the hairdresser's feelings. I don't understand it. If you told the hairdresser to cut 2 cm off and they cut off 15 cm, you should not be afraid to hurt their feelings. You should be afraid of hurting them physically, and that only because of all the trouble with the police and the courts. I'd probably hurt them physically anyway, but then I don't go to hairdressers.

One more weird social thingie: apparently many long-haired people in the US get advice from family, coworkers and random strangers telling them to donate their hair to a charity called Locks of Love. This is too weird to even contemplate. (Not that such a charity exists, but that somebody would tell somebody else to donate to it.)