The hell are you even talking about? Get this verbose wannabe graduate thesis out of here
That ain't a critique, if you don't understand, ask me to clarify, if you think I'm wrong, tell me why.
This doesn't excuse hair OR the desire to have hair that does not resemble natural hair
I have never said that it needs to be excused, that's all you.
It IS an excuse. Don't tell me what black women have to go through since none of it expresses why they're the only people who can't wear their own goddamn hair.
I pretty much paraphrased exactly what you said.
The point is that black women (as apart of the ~12% of the black population in the US) are following the dominant society.
Theres no if/ands/but's about that.
White standards of hair care are dominant
Good for you. That doesn't mean everyone is as clueless as you are.
I have all the info...and the argument still isn't substantiated in my eyes. I'm the hung-juror.
Ain't nothing to understand outside of you caping for women who wear fake hair. Keep it 100. You just want to deflect responsibility here.
Do you always resort to petty ad-hominems when you get frustrated in an argument? or are you genuinely incapable of cordial disagreement? Nobody has all the info, nobody knows all there is to know about this shyt. To even suggest that you do is laughably and ironically fundamentalist.
Sounds like NATURAL black hair to me.
I see...so the solution is to imitate fine/thin white/asian/indian hair?
MAYBE your shyt ain't meant be COMBED...HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm
This is what you get for supporting non-black beauty standards.
All the subtle shyt you're describing INDIRECTLY leads you to support weaves and YOU AINT EVEN NOTICE IT.
A little of this and a little of that and next thing you know, you're rocking a hair hat from Bombay.
On what basis do you assert that black hair should be left that way? Why do you feel free to dictate what black hair was meant to be like, where do you get that authority? do you subscribe to some vague notion of black primordial nature? Surely a pragmatist would say that black hair is meant to be in any form that does not do harm to the hair or scalp.
Assuming that black and non-black beauty can viewed completely apart from each other is stupendously naive. If you can't see how then this may be a waste of both our time.
I'm not being indirect I don't have a problem with weaves.
but the problem is them not wanting to show the world their actual hair.
...you act like I don't hear this bullshyt all the time.
There are very few black women that have never worn their natural hair in public
I guess I should by a white boy beard while mine grows out for the winter.
In case you are forgetting you are male so presumably you aren't preoccupied with beauty to the same extent that women are.
It certainly is.
You know...like how women get haircuts after a traumatic life change or event...or how theres a stereotype of natural hair women who shop at whole foods and eat raw foods.
Hair is VERY MUCH a symbol of how you view yourself. A black woman with straightened or ironed hair speaks volumes over ones with obvious weave...but the chemicals are another issue.
SOME women cut their hair after traumatic events, Hair is very much a symbol of how SOME people view themselves. What you're doing is taking your subjective preconceptions and projecting them onto other people. How do you of all people not see the problem with that?
Theres different levels of hate. They dislike it ENOUGH not to show it to the world.
huh?
There doesn't have to be any hate. how exactly are you so sure that not wearing their natural hair means they hate it. Such conformist behaviour can evoke a wide range of emotional responses why are you so hung up on hatred?
you're an apologist for repeating shyt about black hair needing to "breathe" and "rest"
fukk outta here.
I can't be an apologist because frankly I don't thing weave is inherently wrong. You said you try to understand, I just presented the arguments to you as I understand them but I wouldn't object to weaves on that basis anyway so
MAYBE if you treated it like you liked it, you wouldn't have to consider hiding it.
Curious, what would that entail in your eyes?
Which is kind of the point, this debate is tired and hasn't got anybody anywhere. I would rather see black people obsessing about healthy hair.
Wearing weaves is a different argument from using chemicals...and something you just want to detract from.
Going down this route we might as well end up with you advocating for us to pay college athletes.