What's the deal with black women who wear straight hair or go bald?

Last Updated: 02.07.2025 03:08

What's the deal with black women who wear straight hair or go bald?

People with naturally straight hair will never be able to appreciate how much work is required to keep kinky-curly Sub-Saharan African-type hair soft, neat and detangled in an unplaited or unstraightened state.

Straight hair is much easier to manage than kinky or curly hair. (Ask any woman with a tight curl hair texture.)

And short-cropped or close-shaven hair is easier to maintain than a voluminous, fluffy, curly mane (a la Chaka Khan).

Should I have left it alone and kept quiet? I came out as gay to my adult kids last week. Age 61 married 15 years, divorced for 20. I feel so guilty for ruining their lives by living a lie.

(Wash, towel dry, brush and go hair it is not.)