After his whole " New Black" bullshit on Oprah's Next Chapter , I have zero fucks to give about Pharrell and his "happiness".

You have no clue what you are talking about. I have been natural for three years and I spend more time and ££££ on my hair than I ever did when I was at the shop for a relaxer.

Black women's hair is nothing for you to speak about, so please stop it with the faux concern and judgment. Why bother commenting on things that you not only have no experience with, but are not your business? Your attitude, that you know more about us than we do, that you, in fact, know better, is insulting. You…

A lot of people in this thread seem to understand clearly what I'm saying but for the sake of clarity my point is that you should stop looking down on women who make choices that are not necessarily choices you would make. It doesn't help women and it certainly doesn't help black women.

"I just don't understand why in blogs such as Jezebel so many people criticize the practice of bleaching your skin but weaves and chemically straightened is ignored"

I thought that Bill Duke did a far better job at getting to the root (no pun intended) of the issue than Chris Rock, who I suspect wanted to take a sensitive subject and air it out at the expense of Black women.

While I agree with you, telling people to watch Good Hair won't give you much credibility. That doc was awful.

I agree, but I think it might be a good intro to someone who actually thinks it's okay to say something like "weaves and chemically straightened hair . . . is just not flattering to women whose hair is naturally not straight or wavy."

NOPE. The beauty of black hair is that it's so versatile. Black women can pull off anything- straight hair, Afros, locks, braids, crops- it all looks good on us. That's what's wonderful. But how you style your hair is just an expression of personal style for most of us, not a grand statement on our blackness. I'm…

It was so long ago that I saw it, but I remember thinking there were glaring omissions about the origins of hair issues. Also, it presented weaves as if all Black women wear them as a matter of course, and that normal Black women do ridiculous things like put a down payment on a weave.

Never ever recommend Good Hair to anyone ever.

It's a false equivalence because perms & weaves have practical advantages that skin bleaching does not. In my experience & that of many others, what straight hair costs in money, natural hair costs in time. Depending on a woman's situation & schedule, one may be more valuable than the other.

Um, I live in Ireland, a nation of primarily pasty white people, and almost every woman I know here has hair extensions, false hair glued directly to their hair. Wanting weaves, or chemical styles such as perms or relaxing doesn't mean that you don't love yourself, or are unhappy, it means you want different hair.

So what do you have against women who wear weave or straighten their hair? BTW I have straightened my hair and I wear weave daily and I'm pretty happy about it. I have also worn my natural hair and I was pretty happy about that too.

A woman's standard of beauty is her own. We wear makeup, high heels, we shave our legs, we pluck our eyebrows, we pierce our ears, and yes, some of us straighten our hair and get weaves. These are our own choices. You are certainly free to your opinion about what a shame it is that we make these choices but looking…

Chris Rock's documentary was quite lightweight and not very educational, in my opinion. He didn't really say much, and the inclusion of the hair show stuff was unnecessary and pulled focus from what I assume he was trying to do.

Well you know a lot of black men don't say motherfucking thing when a white woman says some off the wall bullshit to them. Had this been a black woman, he would've called her everything but a child of god.

Hey! An article on Jezebel that is critical of R. Kelly! AND HOLY CRAP! It's supportive of black women!

The issue is there is a tendency for white people to write about the continent in ways that are condescending and lacking the insight one would have if they are culturally and ethnically from that region (the external gaze). I find that white writers (yes even white Africans) use tropes that other white people expect…

Whilst this was certainly stupid.