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Cocktail Party — ‘I’ve got to go. I’m needed urgently on Twitter.’

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Why are men so offended by my hair?

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My annus horribilis was 1992. I was in fifth grade (aged ten) and had impulsively cut my hair short over the summer. I turned up to school with auburn ringlets billowing out and up from my head in a wavy sphere. Boy did it get the boys going: constant insults, including ‘Ronald McDonald’ (McDonalds’ clown