RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 5:35 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2015 at 5:38 am by Regina.)
^white women
I kinda get it, you have black women who have consistently been told "your hair is ugly" and they have to straighten it to be seen as professional and approachable. From that point of view, I understand why it's frustrating having white people being seen as "quirky and cool" when they do a black hairstyle, when it's "ew gross" on a black person.
Having said that, I'm really not a fan of taking peoples' bodily autonomy away from them, and I think this is a situation that needs awareness rather than censorship. I don't think you can and should be able to stop these people from "usurping hairstyles", but I think if they're going to do it they should at least be aware of the context of the style they're doing.
Just my thoughts on it
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I kinda get it, you have black women who have consistently been told "your hair is ugly" and they have to straighten it to be seen as professional and approachable. From that point of view, I understand why it's frustrating having white people being seen as "quirky and cool" when they do a black hairstyle, when it's "ew gross" on a black person.
Having said that, I'm really not a fan of taking peoples' bodily autonomy away from them, and I think this is a situation that needs awareness rather than censorship. I don't think you can and should be able to stop these people from "usurping hairstyles", but I think if they're going to do it they should at least be aware of the context of the style they're doing.
Just my thoughts on it
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
