Stand Down

negroettes vs the world (1)

EVERYTHING WRONG
WITH BLACK GIRLS
part one

I'm not going to lie, commencing these chapters with controversial titles are so hilarious to me but I love the sort of response I receive. The repulse in your head as you let marinate my words, I do it on purpose because this is the sort of energy all of us should have towards society yet here we are, a bunch of numpties, endorsing them.

There's been a rise of controversy regarding over what a black female pleases to do with her hair and the amount of strife that builds within me is dangerous ... You mean to tell me, you're experiencing genuine anger over how someone chooses to do their hair, which doesn't even concern you?

Someone help me make sense of it because I'm in a current state of discombobulation. The stereotypes that are automatically attached towards as soon as we do something with our hair is horrific.

First, I'd like to address protective stylings. They're a collective of stylings used to either satisfy our desires or reduce the amount of breakage within our hair (despite our versatile and stubborn it is). Regardless of those reasons, their ultimate goal is to protect your ends and limit the rate at which your hair breaks at compared to the rate your hair grows at. They can differ from wigs all the way to braids, a protective styling is a protective styling. So, why's there so much controversy over somebody's simplest wishes to protect their hair ... I fail to comprehend this.

As soon as a black females installs weaves and wigs, they're attacked under the suspicion that they're "self-hating negroes" and are trying to conform to "European Beauty Standards". Because of the historical context behind it (like black women trying to assimilate and endorsing those tragic standards), this doesn't automatically give you the right to determine I'm self-hating. Please keep the same energy the next time your mum's doing up stiff wigs, thanks.

So when we're wearing wigs, weaves and braids, we're "insecure", "failing to embrace our natural beauty", however, when we're not wearing protective stylings and showcase our crowns of glory, what automatically happens? We're instantly attacked for having "nappy" hair. Ya'll need to update your archaic mindsets because our hair is far from ugly.

It's such a problem when a black woman does it but let it be someone of a different race and nobody has nothing to say. In fact, the same people who are against the idea of wearing protective stylings are the same people to post caucasians with hair extensions as their WCW? You don't want a female who wears wig yet your mum's wigs defying all laws of gravity and it's not a problem? Pft.