I'm 35 and have thick reddish hair I can almost sit on. Over the years I've learned to expect the people who think that they don't have to ask before touching/fondling my hair and I have a hatful of responses to the admiring comments or the demands that I donate it ... but what's new to me this year was the scornful, older women who seemed to think it was okay to yank out handfuls of hair. Is this new, or just new to me?