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'I Love My Hair' Video Inspired By Father's Love of Daughter
Here's the video. I'm watching it and wondering - did Muppets always have tongues and uvulas?
After reading the article, I did something I'm a little ashamed of. I... I read the comments. *blush* And some people - wow, do they ever miss the point! So let's get down to that here.
I think it's great that this dad helped his daughter's self esteem to know that she is beautiful with the hair she's got. I hope sesame street does a show about kids with alopecia. My grand daughter is 7 years old and has no hair at all. Im sure she would be happy to at least have hair.Somebody should think about doing a show or piece on being grateful for what you have because others may not be as fortunate as you. as we say here "You get what you get and you don't get upset." Alopecia may not be a debilitating disease but it's clearly not good for self esteem.
Yes, the little Muppet in the video should love her hair because some people don't have any hair at all, not because it's awesome and all hers.
How is hating one's hair a black problem. Most girls/women hate their hair and bemoan its color, thickness and texture. White/Asian/Hispanic women spend a fortune on stylists and products to curl, perm, straighten, tease, lighten, darken, highlight, and lowlight their hair. Who doesn't own multiple curling irons, straightening plates, curlers, hot rollers,and hair dryers. Who doesn't have an aresnal of gel, mouse, thickening cream, curl definer, sprays and fixers, pomade, and moroccan oil." Natural" hair generally looks awful (unless one has a very short style) and women are right to fix it the same way they fix the rest of their look with make-up and wardrobe. Unless one is abnormally gorgeous there is nothing pretty about stringy hair, natural skin, and poorly fitting cheap clothes.
Might I suggest you go fuck yourself? Thanks!
Instead of embracing and giving kudos to someone who tried to make a difference in the life of not only his daughter who happens to be (African-American) but to any little girl that maybe struggling with her identity when it comes to her hair. If you don't have problems with your hair then consider yourself lucky. I don't believe one of these comments was made by children but grown women who feel like they have been slighted somehow. I mean really what are you criticizing the video for? Check yourself stop making it about you and recognize this is not a new issue. As a black woman I can't tell you how many comment I have had to endure while growing up, and how often I have wore my braids and my white co workers have told me when I take them out and wear my hair straight "they like it better" as if there was something wrong with it before. So please do not minimize what you don't understand. Women are the most critical of each other and it needs to stop. If you look at television anytime you see a black woman or someone with kinky or curly hair, eventually you will see them with their hair straight need examples (Sister Sister, Jordan Sparks on American Idol, Mariah Carey) The root of the problem is not whether it straight, curly, kinky, or braided it starts with your self esteem. Retract your claws and put your hands together to applaud this man. He saw his child in pain and he decided to do something about it. We need to do better to lift each other up not tear each other down because if you think you have an issue about this video talk to the women that would love to have hair after they lost it from chemotherapy, or the woman with Alopecia. I say KUDOS to you Joey Mazzarino
Can I say way out of line? Even if there had been something "wrong" with her hair, who gave these people the job to tell her what to do with it?
I mean, my hair is falling out but I'm not lying to myself and saying "I love going bald before 30". Denial is never healthy. Society says certain things are bad and certain things are good, when it's really up to the individual. Yay for society making people fall in to denial about completely natural phenomena.
WTF?
I love it!!! It does not talk about being black or white, yes the doll is brown, but it only talks about the hair. At early age, unless the parents talk about it, the kids does not really discriminate for color. However they will notice little details like hair. Also, there is plenty of people who are white, or caucasians and have curly hair, and yes it can be puffy sometimes. Some people might think is trivial, but when other kids make fun of the hair, it hurts the children. Little details, like the nose, the teeth, the weight, anything. Is not only about hair, but I am glad this doll took the stand and show the children that it is ok to accept yourself the way that you are. I hate when people are always trying to change you. I have curly hair and I have to say that I really love my hair!!!
Yes, children notice "little details" like hair, but not BIG details like the fact that their friends are totally different skin colors from them and that it's omgbad! to mention this.
I'm really tired of hearing about "people of color" not having this or that...if you don't have this or that no matter what race, color, creed, etc . you are then it's your own fault! Everything on this earth is available for everyone, if you don't take the opportunity to grab them don't blame everyone for your shortcomings. Give me a break me and get over it, just try being a human being and a person. It's people like you that keep racism alive or is that the way you would like it to stay. Where have you been because the intelligent dialogue has been ongoing and I feel you are doing blacks a disservice by not recognizing the very large strides that have already been made. You should be ashamed of yourself by not celebrating this, instead you choose to look at the negative. That's what really unnerves me. By the way there is NOT a little white girl that hasn't complained hair their hair.
Yup, systematic racism is, you know, their own fault. They're MAKING it happen!
to everyone that ever wondered why their hair wasn't like Barbies, well, I always wondered why I wasn't taller, why I my teeth were straight, why I didn't have longer fingernails, why my eyelashes weren'y longer, why my nose was wider, why my lips were thin, why my toes curled under...then I look at a child with cancer...get my point!
Your point is that children with cancer exist solely so that you can have handy moral lessons whenever you feel down? Wow, you really suck! (This is the same person as the previous comment.)
Kudos! Sesame Street! But please remember, you don't have to be Afro American to have puffy, kinky, terrible hair. Those of us with more than one ethnicity, can and sometimes have the same problem. Will make sure not only my children see this video, but will be certain my 3 year old Granddaugher sees this! My, how acceptance starts young! Please, don't stop.
Um... yeah. I feel bad for this woman's three year old granddaughter, who is getting this video directly from the same woman who thinks her hair is terrible.
But there were other comments as well.
Here's the video. I'm watching it and wondering - did Muppets always have tongues and uvulas?
After reading the article, I did something I'm a little ashamed of. I... I read the comments. *blush* And some people - wow, do they ever miss the point! So let's get down to that here.
I think it's great that this dad helped his daughter's self esteem to know that she is beautiful with the hair she's got. I hope sesame street does a show about kids with alopecia. My grand daughter is 7 years old and has no hair at all. Im sure she would be happy to at least have hair.Somebody should think about doing a show or piece on being grateful for what you have because others may not be as fortunate as you. as we say here "You get what you get and you don't get upset." Alopecia may not be a debilitating disease but it's clearly not good for self esteem.
Yes, the little Muppet in the video should love her hair because some people don't have any hair at all, not because it's awesome and all hers.
How is hating one's hair a black problem. Most girls/women hate their hair and bemoan its color, thickness and texture. White/Asian/Hispanic women spend a fortune on stylists and products to curl, perm, straighten, tease, lighten, darken, highlight, and lowlight their hair. Who doesn't own multiple curling irons, straightening plates, curlers, hot rollers,and hair dryers. Who doesn't have an aresnal of gel, mouse, thickening cream, curl definer, sprays and fixers, pomade, and moroccan oil." Natural" hair generally looks awful (unless one has a very short style) and women are right to fix it the same way they fix the rest of their look with make-up and wardrobe. Unless one is abnormally gorgeous there is nothing pretty about stringy hair, natural skin, and poorly fitting cheap clothes.
Might I suggest you go fuck yourself? Thanks!
Instead of embracing and giving kudos to someone who tried to make a difference in the life of not only his daughter who happens to be (African-American) but to any little girl that maybe struggling with her identity when it comes to her hair. If you don't have problems with your hair then consider yourself lucky. I don't believe one of these comments was made by children but grown women who feel like they have been slighted somehow. I mean really what are you criticizing the video for? Check yourself stop making it about you and recognize this is not a new issue. As a black woman I can't tell you how many comment I have had to endure while growing up, and how often I have wore my braids and my white co workers have told me when I take them out and wear my hair straight "they like it better" as if there was something wrong with it before. So please do not minimize what you don't understand. Women are the most critical of each other and it needs to stop. If you look at television anytime you see a black woman or someone with kinky or curly hair, eventually you will see them with their hair straight need examples (Sister Sister, Jordan Sparks on American Idol, Mariah Carey) The root of the problem is not whether it straight, curly, kinky, or braided it starts with your self esteem. Retract your claws and put your hands together to applaud this man. He saw his child in pain and he decided to do something about it. We need to do better to lift each other up not tear each other down because if you think you have an issue about this video talk to the women that would love to have hair after they lost it from chemotherapy, or the woman with Alopecia. I say KUDOS to you Joey Mazzarino
Can I say way out of line? Even if there had been something "wrong" with her hair, who gave these people the job to tell her what to do with it?
I mean, my hair is falling out but I'm not lying to myself and saying "I love going bald before 30". Denial is never healthy. Society says certain things are bad and certain things are good, when it's really up to the individual. Yay for society making people fall in to denial about completely natural phenomena.
WTF?
I love it!!! It does not talk about being black or white, yes the doll is brown, but it only talks about the hair. At early age, unless the parents talk about it, the kids does not really discriminate for color. However they will notice little details like hair. Also, there is plenty of people who are white, or caucasians and have curly hair, and yes it can be puffy sometimes. Some people might think is trivial, but when other kids make fun of the hair, it hurts the children. Little details, like the nose, the teeth, the weight, anything. Is not only about hair, but I am glad this doll took the stand and show the children that it is ok to accept yourself the way that you are. I hate when people are always trying to change you. I have curly hair and I have to say that I really love my hair!!!
Yes, children notice "little details" like hair, but not BIG details like the fact that their friends are totally different skin colors from them and that it's omgbad! to mention this.
I'm really tired of hearing about "people of color" not having this or that...if you don't have this or that no matter what race, color, creed, etc . you are then it's your own fault! Everything on this earth is available for everyone, if you don't take the opportunity to grab them don't blame everyone for your shortcomings. Give me a break me and get over it, just try being a human being and a person. It's people like you that keep racism alive or is that the way you would like it to stay. Where have you been because the intelligent dialogue has been ongoing and I feel you are doing blacks a disservice by not recognizing the very large strides that have already been made. You should be ashamed of yourself by not celebrating this, instead you choose to look at the negative. That's what really unnerves me. By the way there is NOT a little white girl that hasn't complained hair their hair.
Yup, systematic racism is, you know, their own fault. They're MAKING it happen!
to everyone that ever wondered why their hair wasn't like Barbies, well, I always wondered why I wasn't taller, why I my teeth were straight, why I didn't have longer fingernails, why my eyelashes weren'y longer, why my nose was wider, why my lips were thin, why my toes curled under...then I look at a child with cancer...get my point!
Your point is that children with cancer exist solely so that you can have handy moral lessons whenever you feel down? Wow, you really suck! (This is the same person as the previous comment.)
Kudos! Sesame Street! But please remember, you don't have to be Afro American to have puffy, kinky, terrible hair. Those of us with more than one ethnicity, can and sometimes have the same problem. Will make sure not only my children see this video, but will be certain my 3 year old Granddaugher sees this! My, how acceptance starts young! Please, don't stop.
Um... yeah. I feel bad for this woman's three year old granddaughter, who is getting this video directly from the same woman who thinks her hair is terrible.
But there were other comments as well.
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Date: 2010-10-21 07:45 am (UTC)Seriously. Honestly, I kind of wonder if that person was a troll.
And for her record, my "arsenal" consists of baking soda (which I mix with water), conditioner, a shower cap, a wide-toothed comb, and a pair of barber's shears for occasionally trimming split ends. Although maybe she thinks I look "awful" because of it.
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Date: 2010-10-21 10:32 pm (UTC)I've never worn makeup, because I hate the way it feels; as a result, at the age of 53 I'm still getting mistaken for 30-something.
IAWTC.
Date: 2010-10-21 11:33 pm (UTC)I wear some makeup, sometimes, but a light smudge of eyeliner and a dusting of powder (once again, for heavy dates) isn't the same as being ashamed to step out on the street without enough pancake to make a clown flinch.
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Date: 2010-10-21 11:36 pm (UTC)Lighter colors are preferred because they show up better on camera than dark brown or black hair. (That's why most women on camera sport at least highlights if not a bleach job.)