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as usual I am bored and my brain gets to moving around and thinking of stuff. Todays thought………….getting sisterlocks. I see this hairstyle all the time and I absolutely LOOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE it. I mean it can be colored, roller set, up, down, I can whip it. Just like normal hair. When I learn how to swim lol, I wouldnt have to worry. siiiiiggghhhh this has me excited and nervous at the same time. I wont lie and say the only thing that has me hesitant is how the corporate world will see it but hell I get looked at for my BIG afro already sooo this couldnt be much different and then Im thinking about what if I get bored after its locked….then I have to cut my hair off but the flip side of that is theres soooo much I can do I shouldnt get bored. And as far as corporate american is concerned I can pull it back into bonds and up dos (im answering my own issues here lol silly me) Now I am going to keep looking into this plus I wonder how much it cost to keep sister locks up. If I make this move it will more than likely be towards the end of my college career………..sister locks: They just add an extra taste of boldness that sistas already have….and yall know I am already jaaazzzzzy *snaps three times*
I keep
I still am…
knowing the answers
yet I resist and persist
with my
complexity, perplexing only me.
“I’m a mess” I laugh at myself
Fueling my own fire
yet the flames are transparent
outsiders aren’t afraid to enter
But
I am afraid to exit.
I keep still.
Beauty and purity go hand in hand, and are tied up in a false sense of modesty. This type of attractiveness comes from being white, virginal, conventionally attractive and actively or deliberately ignorant of meeting that standard of attractiveness. It comes from needing to be seen as beautiful even “without any makeup on” but in “skin-tight jeans” if you’re Katy Perry, from Bruno Mars ‘knowing’ that “when I compliment her, she won’t believe me,” and in reminding a boy that he should be dating a girl who isn’t a shallow hussy, if you’re Taylor Swift.
All of this encourages girls to constantly strive to meet an arbitrary standard of attractiveness that fuels multiple industries (dieting and cosmetics, primarily) while reminding them that their job is to be appealing to men but never to admit that they’re trying to be good-looking for men, and never admit that they look good – especially if they’re not skinny or white. It creates a maelstrom of unhealthy attitudes about girls’ bodies and sexuality. Girls must be all things: attractive and unknowing, winking about sex and flaunting their sexuality but never expressing desire or – worse – actually having sex, and presenting their bodies as sexually available while deriding those girls whose sex lives are more active than their own. They must do all this while being straight, slender and white and preferably blonde or they’re not really even in the game to begin with.
Teen Pop and the Culture of Purity (via sparkamovement)
Oh, and look! My last post can be translated to apply to sex and beauty, too. See: “their job is to be appealing to men but never to admit that they’re trying to be good-looking for men, and never admit that they look good – especially if they’re not skinny or white.”
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