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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I think women are idiots. They spend so much time on inconsequential things while men run society. They can continue running on the hamster wheel. Let them distract themselves with waxing, coloring hair an injecting themselves with Botox.  Those of us who are liberated will continue to be free. [/quote]

I am free, though our current president seems to working up to putting my people back in chains and sending us into the cotton fields again. I personally think it is white women privilege to look awful and tell other women who are judged by their appearance up to and including our hair, in ways that have negative effects on our lives because of racism, that they are wrong for caring and that their goal of bucking the patriarchy in this way should be my goal, too. Intersectional feminism is a thing. [/quote]

Np.  You are inserting a racial component into the discussion, as valid as your point is.[/quote]

Actually, I think she has a point. The messy bun is a perfect example of white hair privilege. AA women can’t even wear their own natural texture without having their professionalism questioned. AA women have to dress better to get ahead in corporate America, but they run the risk of being sexualized if they dress too well.

Social class also matters. When I worked with poor women of all races in the rural Deep South, PA, and WV, dress and careful grooming was a huge signifier of power or aspiration to power. I purposely dressed down in Kmart casual clothing initially, hoping to not seem pretentious and build rapport. A coworker advised me that clients would not see me as an authority in my field if I was not very well-dressed. And she was right. A well-fitted suit meant I was an outsider, but an outsider had the keys to the kingdom. [/quote]

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