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Beiber, Spalding, Hair Touching

#41
Dr. Cheese said:
I disagree, imagine being a black woman or girl with natural hair who is in an environment where most people have straight hair. Folks wanting to touch your kinky hair can get tired very fast. I've seen it and I have had female relatives and friends talk about it. It really grates their nerves!
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There's validity to this post, even though I find the article itself kinda silly. There are people who will touch a black woman's hair as if they've never seen it in person before. Like it's a sideshow or a novelty. I've seen that a few times, with my sisters and my wife.

Black chicks will also get offended if they're wearing a weave, and don't want anybody to know :D

So there is a little more to it when there's a black woman involved. Again, though, this article is just silly IMO
 
#42
I don't think this has anything to do with esperanza being black or with any racial theme as Dr. Cheese wants to make it appear.
It's not that eveybody wants to touch any black woman's hair; it's more the fact that Esperanza has a huge Afro style and that appears very interesting to a lot of people and they will want to touch it.
 
#43
Hellbastard said:
I don't think this has anything to do with esperanza being black or with any racial theme as Dr. Cheese wants to make it appear.
It's not that eveybody wants to touch any black woman's hair; it's more the fact that Esperanza has a huge Afro style and that appears very interesting to a lot of people and they will want to touch it.
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Everybody will not want to touch it. Her hair looks no different from my daughters, my wife, or my sister. Thirty years ago, when I had an Afro, it looked like my own. People who want to touch it, tend to be people who do not have that sort of hair.
 
#44
Dr. Cheese said:
I disagree, imagine being a black woman or girl with natural hair who is in an environment where most people have straight hair. Folks wanting to touch your kinky hair can get tired very fast. I've seen it and I have had female relatives and friends talk about it. It really grates their nerves!
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Sorry, Doc - we'll have to agree to disagree on this one, for reasons that have been well rehearsed in the thread already. Thoughtless touching occurs between and within groups of people of all types, prompted by all sorts of differences. Thinking that this is something that is somehow different for black people is incorrect, imo, and shows a willingness on the part of the article's author to see almost anything as being an issue of race, like some sort of entitlement that other groups of people do not have.

FWIW, it grates on my nerves, too! ;)
 
#45
I'm sorry but people with a different kind of hair will find at some point somebody wanting to touch their hair.

I have Thick Long Black hair, which for a male is not that common and many women are always trying to touch it (not that I'm complaining). People with Afro have the same problem, no matter fi they are black, white, purple or anything. It is because your hair looks different that people want to touch it no because of your race.

I've seen that people with dreadlocks don't usually have that problem.:ninja:
 
#46
Hellbastard said:
I'm sorry but people with a different kind of hair will find at some point somebody wanting to touch their hair.

I have Thick Long Black hair, which for a male is not that common and many women are always trying to touch it. People with Afro have the same problem, no matter fi they are black, white, purple or anything. It is because your hair looks different that people want to touch it no because of your race.

I've seen that people with dreadlocks don't usually have that problem.:ninja:
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There is a very strong correlation between differences in hair texture and differences in percieved "race." Anyone simply coming up and touching anyone else's hair is rude, regardless of who is doing it.
 
#47
The guy that runs my gig has a beard like ZZ top. Chicks are always grabbing at it. He friggan HATES it. Like go off on them over the mic. throw 'em off stage on the spot hates it.

Just sayin'
 
#48
Dr. Cheese said:
There is a very strong correlation between differences in hair texture and differences in percieved "race." Anyone simply coming up and touching anyone else's hair is rude, regardless of who is doing it.
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Indeed there are. But the point is, that no matter your race, people wanting to touch your hair will always be there if you wear it in a different or provocative way.

Punks have the problem, People who dye the hair in different colors have the problem, no matter your race you'll have the same problem, people wanting to touch your hair if it looks different to theirs.
 
#49
Back in the 70s I had the longest dark blonde Afro, and I would have killed to have some of the lovely young ladies of the time run their fingers through my hair! It must have been that perpetually stoned look I sported at that time that probably kept them from doing so! :hmm:
 
#56
L-A said:
So, who in this thread has seen Good Hair?
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I've seen the "Good and Bad Hair" sequence from Spike Lee's School Daze, which is very pleasing to watch on multiple levels.:D I imagine the movie you're referring to is based on a similar theme.
 
#58
The way I was raised, touching someones hair is just something you didn't do if you didn't really know them personally. It's like going to someone's house for the first time and opening their refrigerator or looking in their medicine cabinet. When I saw him touch her hair my eyes got very big, but she was cool about it but somehow I could hear her saying to herself "What The ____!". And granted I wasn't there, I'm sure any black artist that she knew there would have raised an eyebrow about that especially if they are in a certain age bracket.

Chris Rock did a movie about black hair a couple of years ago and a couple of actresses that wore weaves agreed to be interviewed and they were pretty straight forward about not letting people touch their hair even if it was their SO and not swimming.

I say, Bieber's mom should have taught him better.
 
#59
GregC said:
I've seen the "Good and Bad Hair" sequence from Spike Lee's School Daze, which is very pleasing to watch on multiple levels.:D I imagine the movie you're referring to is based on a similar theme.
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It's basically Chris Rock discovering the immensity of the world of black hair care.

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