To the obviously non-natural-haired, non-Black people commenting about how they don’t what the problem is and people are getting outraged for no reason:

Solange, not Beyonce. Solange.

And all the while fashion magazines unashamedly use photos of white women in blackface, because attributes associated with POC are just so chic and covetable, so long as they aren’t, y’know, actually on POC.

Pretty shocked when I saw this (if not surprised). I was expecting them to have made her hair look smaller or smoother, but to have completely erased her hair strikes me as so much worse for a reason I’m struggling to put my finger on.

I’d suggest actually talking to black women about how they feel living in a society where they are brought up to accept predominantly white standards of beauty (light skin, straight hair) as the norm and how that affects their own sense of self and how they feel the need to conform to those standards in order to…

OMG stop

She’s the Earth Human whose name was featured prominently in the headline of the article you voluntarily opened on your electronic computing device so that you could snidely pretend to be burdened at the thought of having to use Google.

I’m not getting into this debate but I am commenting just to say lmaooooo @ you describing Arora’s hair as anywhere near kinky. That’s among the top 10 whitest things I’ve read all year.

That would be true if this person wasn’t a troll and knows perfectly well who we’re talking about. Also it says “Oscar-winning actress’ right in the article - you don’t have to know her from Star Wars, you just have to be literate enough to read the explanation already provided.

Oh dear oh dear - you’re one of those people who gets their jollies going into places you hate and annoying everyone who likes being there. I could toss out the usual, accurate descriptors - sad, pathetic, monstrously irritating, crushingly narcissistic etc. etc. - but I’ve already reached my maximum allotted time for…

Even if what you’re saying is what happened, which is unlikely given the historical pattern of this happening for exactly the reason Nyong’o stated, the fact that they did so without a thought as to what it would mean for the struggle for Black hair acceptance is enough reason for her “ugly and disparaging” remarks,…

She’s a famous actress who was in - amongst other things - The Force Awakens, which made umpty-billion dollars on release and dominated the industry nws cycles for months.

The internet doesn’t require you to care, but being on the Audio Visual Club - a website devoted to the film, television, and music industry - and…

It’s just that this model’s hair isn’t anywhere close to “kinky.” At all. By any stretch of the definition. And read some history. There hasn’t been an ongoing war in American and European media against Indian hair. There has been an ongoing war (and that is not overstating it) against Black female hair. You are…

1) How is that self-serving?

Jordo, are you SERIOUSLY taking issue with a black woman describing her own hair as kinky?

Is there any shitty behavior you’re not compelled to rush to the defense of? If Ted Nugent or whoever gives a hot take on Roy Moore, are we going to see you in the comments for that article too?

You hope people hurt and humiliate Lupita Ngong’o for asking for respect, <I>but no disrespect</I>.

Except if you know anything about graphic design, that theory not hold up. It easiest thing in world to move her head to right to make room for hair (as cropping out hair changes focal point slightly). Look how much space between her right eye and letters “MI” compared to how much space between left side of head and…

What films has he done where either his performance or directing is noteworthy?

Oh, Jesus, what the fuck?