AITA for having blue hair on a date?

Yes, I’m aware of how ridiculous the title sounds but I couldn’t think of what else to put in it.

Recently, I’ve (32f) gotten back into the dating scene and thus have gone on the dating apps. Also recently, I’ve had streaks of my hair dyed a light blue. This will be important later.

Off and on throughout the years, I’ve had parts of my hair dyed blue because it’s my favorite color and I think I look good in it. Never once would I think just having blue in my hair would cause such distress among anyone, but I guess I was wrong.

I matched with a cute Russian guy named Maxim (30m). We hit it off online and had a lot of things in common, so I was stoked to meet him in person. We met on a Wednesday in a cafe and it was……awkward. He kept staring at my hair in disgust. Was short with his answers to my questions. Sucks because he was really cute, but I also realize it’s a lot of trial and error with dating, you know?

So we end the date and he says he’ll contact me later, me thinking there’s no way he will considering how bland the date was and he was being too polite to say he wasn’t interested in seeing each other again. But to my surprise, later on, he DID contact me! I was taken aback!

He called me actually. He let me know that he didn’t feel any chemistry nor attraction between us. I was kinda off-put by how blunt he was, but otherwise told him, ok I understand thanks for being honest and good luck to you.

But it didn’t stop there. This guy continued and said, "Oh and a word of advice for you in the future? Showing up to a romantic first date with that social justice warrior-like hair is not going to get you very far in the dating scene."

I was taken aback again. I was speechless and confused. I then saw red and raised my voice at him, "Seriously!? Well considering I’ve had a couple of boyfriends before whilst having blue hair at the same time I’d say you’re wrong on that matter, but thank you for letting me know that we are DEFINITELY not a match in any way whatsoever especially since you’re so hung up on my hair!"

Maxim scoffed and chortled and continued, "Well it obviously doesn’t mean that much otherwise you wouldn’t be on these dating apps still." I realized this was going nowhere now and told him goodbye and hung up on the phone. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

Later on that day, I ended up getting a pretty nasty e-mail from the dating app we matched on saying that my account was temporarily suspended because I was reported for "harassment".

Am I the a-hole here!?

2 thoughts on “AITA for having blue hair on a date?”
  1. In nature, there’s this thing called aposematism, which is a trait of certain animals and plants that gives them bright “unnatural” colors, like vibrant yellow, red, and blue. This trait exists as one of the first lines of defense against predators who might be compelled to eat them, but instead choose to avoid them out of fear of danger / poison / etc.

    This man having the audacity to lecture you about your hair color after *one* date? **Your hair color did its job. You dodged a** **bullet.**

    NTA.

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