A few years ago I shaved my head for cancer, and even though I knew exactly what I was doing going into it, I still cried when the razor came close to my head. I did it with a friend though, so it wasn't as traumatic as it could've been, but I could imagine how awful having your heair cut forcibly would be. My spotty background in history is telling me that some group during some historical time period used to shave the heads of female traitors as punishment rather than executing them. It would be a social stigma that they would have to live with for months.
I also decided to go with a pixie type cut when I was nine, which was a huge mistake because I had a similar experience that other people mentioned where everyone thought I was a boy at first. Very traumatic for a prissy girl who had only learned to wear pants a short while ago.
