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Magazine: 28 March 2015

Omg 3

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Omg 3 — ‘We wanted them to have contemporary names — this is Omg and Lol.’

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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