It isn’t a non-issue for men. Black men are chastised for wearing their hair natural, in braids, or in locs all the time. It “isn’t professional” and yet the hair usually looks really good!

It’s very much about race and what “white people think.”

I am not fine china. I am a human being. And about your comment about hair and heart…frankly, you are further contributing to the problem here by saying that. This article is not about you, and you are further asserting the male gaze by assuming we do anything for your pleasure.

She most certainly is derailing. This is about black poc. Specifically. It isn’t about you. Don’t make it about you. Your situation is not comparable. You are not being dehumanized because you choose to wear your hear the way it grows out of your head. There is not a history of violence and oppression tied [...]