Cute, cutie, sweetie, sassy, girl...
Gah, there's this one shoplady who is friends with my mother. She never calls me by any name at all, she just says girl. As in, "Hey, girl!" But it's not just a greeting. She says it constantly, and says goodbye by blowing kisses.
I never styled my hair during the past 5 years, so it was always just kinda short/shaggy and masculine. But whenever I went in for a haircut, the lady my mom always forced me to go to would ignore anything that I said and cut it in a weird, short, girlie style. She would refer to me as "sweetie" the whole time and whenever she was done she would inform me that my hair was cute now. If I had to go out in public before I could wash the hairspray out and comb my hair back to its usual look, people who thought of me as female would tell me that my haircut was "sassy."
I hate the word sassy, not just because it sounds as feminine as it is, but also because for several years I rode a horse (a mare, specifically)named... Sassy. Ans Sassy the horse was the bitchiest horse ever. So any time someone said my hair looked sassy, in my head it seemed like they were saying it was feminine and related to a bitchy horse.
