I'm getting sick of natural hair blogs in general. Not any in particular. The undying obsession with having long hair and the whining to have the approval of men is just peeving me to death. In an attempt to be counter-cultural, I feel like a lot of women are sliding back into the perception of beauty as a virtue, something to strive for and develop. This kind of thing doesn't exist in the queer community and it intrigues me.
I'm going to quote Toni Morrison on this one:
“The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.” Black is Beautiful is a “white idea turned inside out…Concentrating on whether we are beautiful is a way of measuring worth that is wholly trivial... and preoccupation with it is an irrevocable slavery of the senses.”
I'm not trying to claim nirvana or anything like that; but I'm over my hair. I'm over it. I accept it like I accept my knees, nose, fingers, toes, my bum and elbows. It's occurred to me that my hair doesn't require any more attention than other parts of my body; and to elevate it to the glory of my existence is just ludicrous to me. To devote hours of blog-reading to the maintenance of my hair to the point of over-information is nothing but a distraction from the development of actual virtue (whatever that is). It really is "just hair" to me now. My biology knows nothing about politics, what men and women think, and what style looks the cutest. My biology just "is". My biology just wants to "be".
So this blog will no longer be about my hair... because I'm over it. My life demands more meaningful occupations. I now completely understand why Najahface deleted her YouTube channel.
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I am with you! I was just thinking this the other day. I started a hair blog thinking it would be something cool or original, but it isnt! I have 2 posts total on that thing and I have called it quits. Everything you need to know about natural hair care is already out there in cyber space...the only tool needed is Google.
ReplyDeleteYou made a great point that our hair is no harder to take care of than the rest of our body. I never thought about it like that. But its true. Some ladies will have you thinking you NEED to do 'x,y,z...1,2,3' to have healthy hair, but thats far from the truth. Does anyone keep it simple anymore?
Really, it is what it is...just HAIR.
I can really dig this post, even as a writer of a hair blog. Alot of women do tend to give their hair an unnecessary amount of attention and it gets to the point where it becomes this thing that is super important and its thriving or not thriving becomes critical to their lifes happiness and their self worth. I hope that my blog offers a perspective that hair is not the end all be all and that other qualities and other goals should be persued.
ReplyDeleteI do however maintain, that in the African community all over the globe natural hair acceptance is still very important and that message needs to be spread.
I admire your stance. Hair is just hair and in some respects it isn't.
I look forward to seeing what your blog turns into now.
Peace
GREAT POST
ReplyDeleteI definitely feel where you are coming from. Which is why I don't just blog about my hair. I love my hair, but it's short because I don't care about length. I just like how the coils feel between my fingertips.
There are so many other facets of me that I would not dare limit myself to just talking about my hair. And beauty is internal. You can have hair down to your behind and be unappealing because of your attitude and spirit.
I've wanting to express this without sounding like a anti but I want to post this on my blog with credit ofcourse
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