Who are these little black girls who feel like this because i have never met one.
Straight hair = easy to manage. Curly hair is a bitch to keep under control.
Strawman.
Pretty and professional are two different things, did I defend forcing kids to have certain hair?
I wouldnt want Mohawks, paysas, wierd color hair, Sikh head gear in a professional setting either.
It does. If the most you do to your hair every morning is grab a pick and start combing it out it's safe to say you are ghetto as ****.
- Half black man.
Afros take some work and a lot of times people put oil on their scalp even with an afro to keep it soft.
Yeah but you're pretty fastidious about your grooming habits. I don't think an afro would ever be acceptable to you because of who you are and the expectations you have for yourself.
Oh puh-lease. This isn't a race issue. I don't know a single woman over the age of 25 who doesn't color, highlight, straighten or perm their hair.
I'd venture to guess that at least half the men over the age of 50 have used either a grecian formula type of hair dye or some sort of rogaine type of product.
It's called grooming.
It does. If the most you do to your hair every morning is grab a pick and start combing it out it's safe to say you are ghetto as ****.
- Half black man.
It seems that it's being suggested on this thread that black women can't look professional if they don't process their hair, or change it to an extreme and unnatural degree.
What looks "professional" is a matter of opinion, and if this is the prevailing opinion, then it needs to change. Now. Because it's racist and discriminatory.
Assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, white women do not generally treat and process their hair; there is certainly no unspoken social dictum that they must do so in order to look "professional".
I don't do much of anything to my hair; neither do most white or hispanic women I know. There's nothing "unprofessional" about natural straight or wavy hair, unless it's hanging in one's eyes or is grotesquely long, greasy, or unkempt.
Therefore, there is nothing "unprofessional" about natural African-American hair.
This is merely a prejudice that white-dominated society suffers from, and that they need to make an effort to overcome.
Stop Hating!
Ummmm there isn't anything racist about considering an afro to be unprofessional. I consider it unprofessional and so do a lot of people. Some hairstyles are simply not professional or aesthetically pleasing regardless of who wears them. If a white guy came into an office with a mohawk it would be unprofessional. It has absolutely nothing to do with race. It has to do with what is aesthetically pleasing and what isn't. 'Afros' aren't aesthetically pleasing outside of phone company commercials or those for Viagra.
Is an afro what happens when black people do nothing with their hair?
(I seriously don't know).
Do you realize that a great many white people including myself roll out of bed each day and go to work having done absolutely nothing to their hair except possibly brushed it for five seconds and maybe pulled it back in a ponytail, and are still considered to look absolutely, 100% "professional"?
If the implication of your statement is that black people need to try harder, spend more money, and do more unnatural things to their hair than white people do in order to look "professional", then society needs to change.
"Professional" is a subjective- not an objective- value judgement. It can change. It should change, if its current definition requires black people to have to do a lot of extra crap that white people don't have to do.
Unprofessional :
I work with uber-geeks so no one really pays much attention to the hairstyles. One of the gals has long jet black hair but the bangs are always a different color (yellow/white/pink etc). I've gotten so used to it that I don't really even notice it anymore.
I think dreads on any women look unkempt. I don't care for the afro style on any woman either. Corn-rows can be attractive if done right. I personally think black women look terrific with the long relaxed bouncy and flowing look, or with medium to long length straight hair. IMHO both styles serve to frame and accentuate the beautiful facial features of black women.
wtf lol. It has nothing to do with "looking white". In my opinion certain hairstyles just look better on virtually any woman... it really makes no difference at all what color her skin is. What's more, women of all races and skin-color do cruel things to their hair to obtain a particular color, blend, texture, or style.Neither "bouncy, flowing" hair nor straight hair are natural to 99+% of African Americans.
While respecting your opinion, I do not believe that anything so contrived and unnatural can "accentuate" or enhance beauty.
I also believe that we still live in a very anglocentric society, which does not yet recognize natural Black hair as attractive or professional, and which rewards black people who try to emulate whites.
Most black people have to do very cruel things to their hair in order to achieve a "long, straight" hairdo, if this is even possible at all.
What our hair does naturally if we just leave it alone, they have to torture their hair in order to get it to do.
I would like to see our culture become more accepting of the diverse natural beauty of various ethnicities, including becoming more tolerant of the fact that various ethnicities have different hair textures, and not all of them aspire to look white, nor should they be encouraged to.
wtf lol. It has nothing to do with "looking white". In my opinion certain hairstyles just look better on virtually any woman... it really makes no difference at all what color her skin is. What's more, women of all races and skin-color do cruel things to their hair to obtain a particular color, blend, texture, or style.
Umm... movies are in color now. Have been for some time :2razz:I have not been to a movie in nigh 50 years - have I missed anything ?
No. Your problem arises in attempting to dictate what hairstyle a women should have dependent on her race. Ridiculous. Every woman has the right to choose whatever hairstyle she fancies.The problem arises...
No. Your problem arises in attempting to dictate what hairstyle a women should have dependent on her race. Ridiculous. Every woman has the right to choose whatever hairstyle she fancies.
I've never colored my hair, or straightened it. I haven't had a perm in it since I graduated high school 20 years ago. I get highlights occasionally. Like, once every 5 years or so.
I sometimes dye my hair to cover up the gray.
But I haven't done that in a long time.
I don't do any of these other things.
In the past this was a valid gripe indeed, but not so much today. You should get out more.And every woman (and every man) should be free to choose without subtle social pressure telling them that their race/ ethnicity isn't good enough, and that they should attempt to emulate white people in order to be acceptable in the workplace (in a society which is, not surprisingly, still ruled by a white power structure).
That's why I used the word "or" ladies. I didn't say all of the above.
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