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No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 2:29 am
I wasn't sure where to post this so if it needs moving mods let me know!
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So this is kinda starting to get on my nerves. If I hear one more person say "But black women straighten their hair! No difference!" I'm gonna snap. It's like people are being deliberately ignorant or something. Yes, you most certainly can do as please with your own hair. No I'm no going to, nor do I really want to stop you. However you sir or Madame are still profiting of natural black beauty ideas by usurping hairstyle black women have used to keep our hair healthy for thousands of years. Meanwhile in order to survive in a modern era we are coerced into using caustic chemical on ourselves. And there are no laws to prevent mothers from doing the same to their daughters.
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 2:31 am
I'm confused.
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 2:33 am
How is this news or current affairs?
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 3:04 am
Waaait hold up..."usurp"? Are you really that mad that white girls wanna 'fro their hair? How does someone "usurp" a hair style, exactly? What's wrong with people styling their hair how they want?
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 3:07 am
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 5:35 am
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^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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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 5:56 am
(August 5, 2015 at 5:35 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: ^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
Like I said, I am not interested in stopping white women from doing as they please with their own bodies. That would be hypocritical. I'm just saying it seems like people never stop to think about what they say or do before they see something that's a part of a marginalized group and make off with it like a magpie. And if you try to explain to that person why you take issue with it, they throw a tantrum because *gasp* they aren't welcome to water down pieces of other people for "mainstreaming".
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 7:23 am
There's no such thing as "healthy hair" - only the hair follicle itself is alive (the part which is embedded in the part of your skin that's alive), the rest of the strand is dead.
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 7:32 am
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Whoaa! I thought this post wast going to be about her love of Donald Trump's hair! I guess it's close.
Personally I think BQ's being a bit racist here. It's ok for a black girl to have a particular hairstyle that a white girl gets questioned about?
I think it stems from BQ's feelings of being in a club that sees outsiders as insincere interactors that copy the club's uniform.
As a white man, i don't feel that way about the black ladies that happen to pick popular hairstyles of white women because I'm not in a club or "Brotherhood" among other whites. I would never have such a feeling that my race "owns' a particular hairstyle. I would go as far as to say Donald Trump's hair is alien to the human race though..
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RE: No it's not just hair!
August 5, 2015 at 7:35 am
People are constantly unhappy with their natural hair. My girlfriend has straight hair and she wants curly, people with curly want straight. I'm happy with my hair. I can understand why it feels awkward for a white person to wear black hairstyles, kinda like when whites wear Indian hats just for fun.
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