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I agree the remark is separate, and I think it's almost certainly due to prejudices about how men 'should' look. From the joke at the end, it's pretty clear it has nothing to do with any kind of fighting style - and from the comic you linked it's clear he has no trouble at all with girls having hair waaaay longer than Eliot's in a fight. Grace's hair is almost a tripping hazard, by comparison - but he has not and probably never will criticise that.

I'm really glad to see someone raising awareness of what OCD really is. Sometimes it's like sharing your head with a bully who actively hates you and picks at your every single fault - imagined or otherwise. Sometimes it involves cataloguing every single mistake or bad thing in your life and repeatedly stewing on them. The part that people see is only a tiny fraction of it, and it almost unanimously it seems to make them feel like they are the real victims of your condition. Which is awful.
But mostly it's like having a godamn fire alarm klaxon going off in your head almost constantly, with the brief silences that almost make things worse by showing you just how good it is when that sodding alarm isn't going off. A truly OCD person can become stressed over literally nothing because their brain invents hypotheticals that are often impossible or stupidly unlikely.
And yeah, a lot of the time preforming a specific repetitive action switches off that alarm for a while and soothes your nerves. That action can be tidying, or flipping a light switch to make sure it's off, or washing your hands to get rid of germs, chemicals, or just vague 'contaminates'.
Or arguing on the internet to quell the little voice that says 'the other guy is right'.
 

I'm really glad to see someone raising awareness of what OCD really is. Sometimes it's like sharing your head with a bully who actively hates you and picks at your every single fault - imagined or otherwise. Sometimes it involves cataloguing every single mistake or bad thing in your life and repeatedly stewing on them. The part that people see is only a tiny fraction of it, and it almost unanimously it seems to make them feel like they are the real victims of your condition. Which is awful.
But mostly it's like having a godamn fire alarm klaxon going off in your head almost constantly, with the brief silences that almost make things worse by showing you just how good it is when that sodding alarm isn't going off. A truly OCD person can become stressed over literally nothing because their brain invents hypotheticals that are often impossible or stupidly unlikely.
And yeah, a lot of the time preforming a specific repetitive action switches off that alarm for a while and soothes your nerves. That action can be tidying, or flipping a light switch to make sure it's off, or washing your hands to get rid of germs, chemicals, or just vague 'contaminates'.
Or arguing on the internet to quell the little voice that says 'the other guy is right'.