Sorry about that...my comment was directed towards an apparently white person who was concerned about her past hairstyle being offensive. I was offering examples of other white hairstyles that could be considered offensive by black, native, or other non-dominant groups without considering that someone might read it as…
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Point taken. What I had in mind was the whole “trustafarian” style that rich white kids were taking on a while back. When it comes down to it, I’m mostly on the side of do whatever you want with your own damn hair, but certain things do go too far and are harmful to already oppressed groups.
It’s usually between two and six large braids, and they can be overhand or underhand, but more often you see them underhand. They are supposed to be braided tight to the scalp. Only about half the images in this Jez article are boxer braids, and the article that it links to on NYP has a pic that’s neither boxer braids…
It’s not offensive to wear your hair in a style that works for your hair texture. It’s offensive to dread your hair if your hair doesn’t naturally dread. It’s offensive to wear a unique style that’s sacred to another culture. But just making tight braids to keep your hair tamed does not count as harmful appropriation.
Actually, the Post article specifies Africa as the origination point. It also fails to understand what’s actually meant by the term “boxer braid”, which is supposed to encompass both underhand and overhand large braids in a front-to-back configuration. The photo they use at the top of the article isn’t even an…
Side note: Sasha’s hair in the pic in that NYP article is decidedly *not* in boxer braids.
Braids are cross-cultural. Names for things can adapt. When people say “boxer braids” they don’t mean cornrows in general, they mean specifically a small number of braids, braided against the scalp in straight lines front to back, either underhand or overhand. Cornrows are large or small, braided underhand, in a…
I’ll stop ordering breakfast sandwiches at night when they start selling a veggie burger. The prospect of getting an egg and cheese sandwich is the only thing that’s put McDonald’s back into the realm of edible restaurants.
Doubled down? The only thing I saw on his twitter regarding it was him retweeting links to two articles about how wrong he was. (One of them on Forbes..) Did he delete tweets?
It’s all okay! He respects the process of science and will gladly *change his belief* after he is presented with the evidence!
Tribalism: It’s a hell of a drug.
Warner should not be suffering for Cosby’s crimes, but the ultimate responsibility for those crimes and their repercussions lies on Cosby himself. Cosby’s actions created a situation that directly harms Warner financially, and it seems to me that he should be held liable.
I absolutely disagree with the idea that any of these men’s work should be pulled off the air, because the vast majority of people who helped create those works are not criminals and abusers.
The article doesn’t even mention whether or not her phone was locked. It’s not hard to shoulder-surf a lock code.
As a Valentine’s gift. Feb 23 was 4 days after the superintendent heard about this. So that photo was on her phone for less than 5 days, and almost certainly wasn’t there during whatever previous time she allowed a student to use her phone.
There is no evidence that her phone contained a nude photo in the past when she allowed the students to use it. She has every right to expect her personal phone to not be stolen and her privacy to not be violated. What if it was her purse they got into? When I was in 8th grade, some students thought it would be funny…
The superintendent said she had allowed the students to use the phone “in the past”. I doubt she had those photos on there when she let the students use it, and she was likely present and watching during any activities they did on it then. There was no reason for her to have to monitor its current contents for student…
“I’m girly” or “I’m bleeding.” I’ve never been one to waste syllables.
This is the wrong story about Mississippi. This BS happens every year, and no one ever notices. It should stop, but it’s not nearly as serious as what’s going on in the legislature right now.