Lucy Hale Faces Backlash over "Baby Hair" Comment

[JustinTrudeau 2,419]

Oooooooh so that's why some of my hair is weird. I have baby hair, and it took me 20 years to realize that. 

OP: I don't see a problem, and I don't see what is there to apologize for 

[Desperado 2,439]

she looks stupid af lmfao 

[KingRedd 3,139]

6 hours ago, artRaver said:

Did I ever contribute to this thread at all scolding her about how she or any whitenperson apparently not suppose to have baby hair? According to the history on my page and my memory, no.

I replied to only one thing that stood out to me, honey.  

Just take your scalping and move on. You commented so I thought I'd collect a piece of your scalp. What you replied was invalid so I decided to pause my daily schedule and give you that read via internet. You'll be fine. 

[Lassex 1,169]

I have baby hairs too. What if someone gets offended? Am I allowed to have them or did black/latino women invent them? Is this cultural appropriation? I think I must shave them or at least not mention them in the future.

[Bette Davis 12,742]

29 minutes ago, KingRedd said:

Just take your scalping and move on. You commented so I thought I'd collect a piece of your scalp. What you replied was invalid so I decided to pause my daily schedule and give you that read via internet. You'll be fine. 

Ruthless 

[artRaver 3,188]

1 hour ago, KingRedd said:

Just take your scalping and move on. You commented so I thought I'd collect a piece of your scalp. What you replied was invalid so I decided to pause my daily schedule and give you that read via internet. You'll be fine. 

You didn't collect anything though. Have a nice day! 

[StrawberryBlond 14,890]

The SJW nonsense is getting worse by the day. She shouldn't have apologised, she should have educated these people about what she means by baby hairs and given them a different perspective. But even if she did, SJWs are blinkered to logic. They can only see their twisted version of events in a world where everything is supposedly offensive, even when the reality of the situation is different. Chances are, Lucy just called these hairs her baby hairs her entire life because they're tiny, end of. I'm white and I have never given mine this term, but different countries will use different terminology. I've got naturally very frizzy bits that stick out just above my ear that I could easily gel down but I wouldn't call them baby hairs. In the UK, we nickname these "sidies" as in sideburns, which we all have, not just men! But I always hated that term so I just call them "my frizzy bits." The white singer, Jessie Ware, had them gelled down in her video for Wildest Moments (and there's no getting away from them, considering it's just her head in the video) and she looked great and not culturally appropriating at all. Some of us just want to gel down the troublesome parts of our hair, get over it. But that doesn't fit into an SJW's narrow, overly simplistic, judgemental way of looking at things, does it?

21 hours ago, donutellha said:

the only thing that i find that needs to be fixed is to not call it trendy on one race and ratchet on another because they're the same thing.

I think that style looks bad on everyone. An overabundance of gelled down hair makes your hair look greasy and unnatural. It's not a racial thing, it's an aesthetic thing. I grew up in the 90's when everyone gelled their hair. Not a good look then, certainly not now, on anyone. Honestly, I don't encounter anyone saying that a black hairstyle looks bad on a black person but good on a white person. The opposite is true, generally. Because we know where these looks originate from, we're quick to judge a white person for doing it because it's "not for them." But SJWs just like to see/imagine what they want to see/imagine. Plenty of black YouTubers were quick to 'school' Kylie Jenner on the appropriation of wearing dreadlocks and pointed out how the public and media praised her for something that black people are criticised for. But this was utterly false. The only people who praised her were her fans. Everyone else slammed her for it. Look up any online article about it and obviously, these YouTubers criticising her. She was about 80% slammed, 20% praised/were completely indifferent to overall. Look at the facts, not what you want to imagine is true.

20 hours ago, Supersonic said:

1. Those are not baby hairs. Those are literal, thick, full length regular hairs that were just glued to her forehead.

2. The baby hairs people are referring to a particular stylized cultural version of baby hairs that was popular within black and latinx communities for decades and only got adapted by white mainstream culture some years ago (starting 2014). People are pissed off because, as always, white people bastardize culture of minorities for their own entertainment to the point of absurdity, while the Latinx girl in LA rocking hers gets called a "f*cking chola that needs to be deported" for rocking her actual baby hairs in the same style. No one is questioning whether white people actually have baby hairs, every human does unless you're balding.

3. She obviously was made aware of that and apologized. This is how you handle situations like this properly. You get informed and give your sincerest apologies. Saying sh*t like "SJWs need to piss off" proves nothing but you being an adult human baby with a temper that rivals the one of the orange ape.

1. Almost certain she was told how she was going to get her hair styled and had no say in how she looked. Plus, there's a lot of tiny, natural hairs glued to her forehead as well, which she might have been referring to.

2. Where did you get 2014 from? You can't put a time limit on that stuff. White people have been copying different hair trends for years before that. It's not 'bastardised,' it's styled exactly the way a black person would do it, so how is it a bad reflection of the culture? I'd understand your point if it was badly done or done wrong but this is the right way to do it. White people have got laughed at for adopting this style before. Check out the hate Katy Perry got for doing it in her This Is How We Do video.

3. No, this was not the right way to handle the situation. Apologising over misunderstandings and innocent intentions is not the right way to go in the battle for racial equality. Recently, white people are having to apologise for everything and only get slammed further if they dare to explain why they weren't being racist. Sounds...pretty racist, when you think about it.

16 hours ago, Versus said:

i dont know why i have to say this its 2017

black and latinx baby hair is specifically styled because of a difference in hair texture and is rooted in their culture - yes white people have baby hair but the specific styling is not a part of 'white culture' . it has been adopted by white people because it 'looks cool' , and those white people are heralded as innovative for stealing it meanwhile black and latinx people are vilified for doing the exact same thing . its exactly the same as a white person wearing dreadlocks - its appropriation 

my point is that white people CANNOT speak over POC voices and if one more person quotes me with some white apologist bullshit im going off

I don't know why I have to explain why this isn't racism in 2017.

Gelling troublesome parts of your hair down is not a cultural thing, it's a personal choice and an example of humans being resourceful. I have never seen a white person credited with inventing this style. A hairstyle is a hairstyle, anyone can do it. To deny anyone the opportunity of doing something because of their race is the definition of racism.

Look, if people see a flaw in someone's reasoning, they have a right to point it out. Doesn't matter if it's from a marginalised group. I'm a woman and a feminist and I don't mind men pointing out why something isn't misogynistic if they have good points to back up their theory. Because some women can be oversensitive and are too willing to jump the gun and scream 'sexism' because they don't want to admit that maybe their attitude is the problem or whatnot. I think racism should be dealt with in the same way. If a white person sees a genuinely valid reason as to why something isn't racist, they should be allowed to say it and be taken seriously. To deny them that opportunity because of their race is racism.

15 hours ago, Versus said:

lmao when did i say anything remotely related to this

white people are not marginalized by systemic racism for their hair as all POC are . and 'white culture' is literally a joke term used to counter white people who believe reverse racism exists

Not all black people go through this systematic racism for their hair. Most white people don't care about how someone styles their hair. The small percentage who do just give us a bad name, that's all. You, a white person, should realise that. And well, being a redhead, I've got a lot of evidence to back up our mistreatment, just saying. "White culture" is indeed, in a sense, a joke term as there's so many culture within culture among whites that massively differs from the other that to give it the blanket term "white culture" is too broad. But in another sense, it's not a joke because whites do have culture. How dare you say that a culture of a race of people is a joke. Why do white people want to bring themselves down so much? We're entitled to respect just as much as anyone else regardless of what our long-dead ancestors once did. Considering that every culture on the planet once indulged in slavery (and in some parts of the world, it still goes on today), shouldn't every race be vilified for it? You act like white people invented oppression or something. Oppression is something humans invented.

[HausOfMark 4,279]

OMG so stupid. 

[FATCAT 60,100]

On 1/26/2017 at 1:12 PM, Anastasia said:

Omg what


I had no idea baby hairs was a racial thing, I've always used it to describe mine which are blonde when the rest of my hair is brown 

But we know you're a bully, so it's okay.

[Fanta 5,019]

Social media and life today is like an actual Black Mirror episode...it's so scary.