Seconded. I can’t believe she was saying “Don’t put your hands on me!” after she body checked him, blocked him from leaving, and grabbed his wrists.

by that definition, black Americans appropriated them from Rastafari, who are DEFINITELY a marginalized minority in Jamaica... so, they should also stop wearing them.

Dreads don’t work the same on different textures of hair, so that plays a huge factor in how they look.

Dreadlocks were brought to Jamaica by Hindus. Jamaicans brought them to America. Black Americans started wearing them.

So, you’re down with people harassing other people about their hairstyle and then punching them when the person you harass is kind of a jerk back?

so assault is ok if you disagree with someones hairstyle ? Dreads arent even a black people thing , dreads have been used by tons of different cultures ...

When you touch soneone to be able to keep on pestering them over something that is none of your business it’s more than an argument.

Exactly (Ugh, Firefox, can’t upvote). Can’t believe how many people here are taking her side or calling him annoying. I had no problem with how he reacted, especially since he was harassed and put on the spot out of nowhere for no good reason.

And it’s not cultural appropriation, because I met a bunch of dudes like…

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Totally! We should absolutely be advocating violence in response to personal aesthetics we disagree with! Hooray modern enlightenment!

I don’t understand how anything you wrote is responsive to your second sentence. He should change his hair because your friends have lost their jobs based upon their own hairstyle? What?

I love how you acknowledge people are judged unfairly by their hairsytle, and instead of advocating for a future where that sort of discrimination doesn’t exist advocating a more broad sense of discrimination. It’s neat. It’s like if instead of legalizing female toplessness the movement was about illegalizing male…

Whatever. That guy does look scuzzy and ridiculous, but that woman was a cowardly asshole. First, it isn’t cool to physically assault someone who was minding his own business. Second, she wouldn’t have said shit to that guy if he wasn’t 5 foot 1, and 130 pounds soaking wet, and she didn’t have her guy friend backing…

This is the United States. What you think about cultural appropriation is irrelevant. If this guy wants to wear dreads, he should be able to wear dreads and not get verbally or physically assaulted by anybody, no matter how offended they are. And no matter how stupid the dreads look, which in my opinion is that they…

But she shouldn’t have “handled” it at all. Would YOU like to be accosted by some rando because of your hairstyle?

I hate cultural appropriation. I am Mexican and learning about my native ancestry.I would like to rip war bonnets of non American Indian but you do not have the right to put your hands on somebody. She didn’t like it made her point but was trying to force her point of view on him NOT okay.

C’mon. That’s like saying overweight women shouldn’t wear miniskirts.

Yep! I was born in 85 and it was all Spice Girls, Backstreet, Nsync, and Britney with absolutely no snark. Genuine love.

Gen Xers are too old for all of these acts. This is definitely for the older millennial sect like myself thanks.

I was thinking the same thing. By the most generous estimates, the youngest Gen Xers were born in 1981. That would have made them about 15 when the Backstreet Boys’ first album came out. I was 16 when Backstreet Boys blew up, and I don’t remember any of my friends being into them (certainly not any of my older…