‘Mortified’: 10-year-old Bangs Blunder has the Internet furious

Internet commentators were left conflicted after a mother shared her reaction to her daughter’s decision to cut her own hair.

publish in RedditPopular forum r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/Ill-Construction-660 (aka the original poster or OP) said she tried her best to stop her daughter from getting bangs, but was ultimately defeated by a Determined 10-year-old boy wielding meat shears and an instructional TikTok video.

Entitled, “[Am I the a**hole] for not having sympathy for my son after she didn’t listen?” mail It has received more than 10,000 votes in favor and 4,500 comments in the last day.

“I usually let my daughter have a say in the choices she makes regarding clothing and hair,” OP began. “But in this one, I put my foot down because I know she’s not going to look good and she’s going to end up unhappy.”

Continuing to explain that her cousin, who is a hairdresser, agreed that getting bangs was the wrong decision, the original poster thought the debate was over until her daughter and the kitchen shears disappeared.

“It was only after she had been in the bathroom for a while that I noticed the scissors I keep in the kitchen were missing,” OP wrote. “And then I heard her in the bathroom crying.”

“He had seen a TikTok compilation of people getting haircuts and tried to make bangs!” OP continued. “It wasn’t good…the hair didn’t lay flat, he cut it very unevenly and cut it too short.”

“My daughter is mortified and doesn’t want to go out in public right now. She keeps begging me to fix it even though I’ve explained…it can’t be fixed,” OP added. “I told him, ‘This is what happens when you don’t listen…you hid in the bathroom because you knew it was wrong. You have to live with the consequences and wait for it to grow up.'”

Considering a recent CNBC report that revealed that 63 percent of Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 use TikTok on a weekly basis, it’s no surprise that kids across the country are influenced to make poor decisions by an endless stream of videos. viral.

However, children were cutting their own hair against the advice of their parents, long before social media existed.

For some parents, a DIY haircut is a nightmare scenario. For others, it is a funny photo and a story that will last a lifetime.

And for kids who live with strict parents, or their laissez-faire counterparts, performing an ill-advised chop can serve as a learning experience and a lesson in patience all in one.

However, what is learned by getting a haircut depends largely on the reaction of the parents.

Throughout the comments section of the viral Reddit post, thousands of Reddit users went toe-to-toe, debating the original poster’s lack of sympathy for their daughter and arguing over who deserves most of the blame for the failed haircut of the 10-year-old girl.

“[You’re the a**hole]Redditor u/nukaati wrote in a comment, which received over 2,000 upvotes. “She is 10, not 20.

“She did, you don’t need to tell her that you’re right and that she should have listened to you,” they continued. ‘She’s a way to give a girl mommy problems.’

“This is all your fault,” repeated Redditor u/Temporary_Badger, receiving over 1,000 upvotes. “Your son should be allowed to make simple decisions for himself at this age and bangs are an incredibly small and simple decision.”

Reddit user u/4MuddyPaws, whose comment received nearly 2,000 upvotes, offered the opposite perspective.

“[Not the a**hole]”, they wrote. “I, among almost all the girls I have met in my 65 years, have done something like this… you live, you learn.

“I probably won’t try anything like this again,” they added. “If she had taken her to a beauty salon, she would probably be just as unhappy with the way she looked.”

In the post’s top comment, which received nearly 22,000 upvotes, Reddit user u/KODO5555 strongly sided with the original poster, sparking a separate debate about why his daughter got a haircut in the first place.

“I can guarantee that most of the [you’re the a**hole responses] they are not parents or have very young children,” they wrote. “10 is old enough to face the consequences of his actions.”

“Nope,” Redditor u/BlockAcceptable5542 responded and received over 8,000 upvotes. “OP is a**hole to ‘put his foot down’ about bangs in the first place. Boys should have agency in their appearance as much as possible.”

news week contacted au/Ill-Construction-660 for comment.