CTBhair
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I just came back from watching the movie "Good Hair" by Chris Rock. I searched the forum, but did not find any threads that had a discussion of what people thought after actually seeing the movie. I saw the ones about the discussions on Monique, Tyra and Oprah. Just wanted to get a feel for my LHCF sisters take on the movie.
Here is my 2 cents. I liked the movie in general. I think I learned a little about hair and saw some things I had never seen before. I definitely laughed at different points in the movie. However, I feel that a large population of Black Women were not captured in this movie that kept referring to "Black Hair". The first population of people were professional women who are not celebrities. The referred to doctors and lawyers a few times, but very few professional women were shown and talked to about their hair. Also, I can count on 1 hand how many women were natural in the movie and those that were did not really get into the treatment of their hair and why they chose it. Also, there were references to how hard it is to stop getting relaxers and then no one representing those women who transitioned or BCed. I know that as a member of LHCF that I am privy to information the general public is not....but really if you are doing a documentary about Black Hair can natural hair get a little more representation. For example, there was a h.s. girl in the film with a few of her classmates. Her classmates got to go around and say why they would not wear natural hair but she did not say why she chose to wear her fly curly afro. I think that whether you relax, press, weave, wig, braid, twist, wash-n-go, etc. black hair is beautiful...but let's respresent more than just relaxers and weaves.
Here is my 2 cents. I liked the movie in general. I think I learned a little about hair and saw some things I had never seen before. I definitely laughed at different points in the movie. However, I feel that a large population of Black Women were not captured in this movie that kept referring to "Black Hair". The first population of people were professional women who are not celebrities. The referred to doctors and lawyers a few times, but very few professional women were shown and talked to about their hair. Also, I can count on 1 hand how many women were natural in the movie and those that were did not really get into the treatment of their hair and why they chose it. Also, there were references to how hard it is to stop getting relaxers and then no one representing those women who transitioned or BCed. I know that as a member of LHCF that I am privy to information the general public is not....but really if you are doing a documentary about Black Hair can natural hair get a little more representation. For example, there was a h.s. girl in the film with a few of her classmates. Her classmates got to go around and say why they would not wear natural hair but she did not say why she chose to wear her fly curly afro. I think that whether you relax, press, weave, wig, braid, twist, wash-n-go, etc. black hair is beautiful...but let's respresent more than just relaxers and weaves.
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as if her hair had anything to do with her intellect
transition again? ....IDK to be continued
