As of yesterday, 16-year-old Gabby Douglas is officially an Olympic gold medalist. But some people watching her compete weren’t focusing on her floor exercise — they were distracted by her hair.
Monisha Randolph, who runs a blog called Sporty Afros, has been dismayed with what she’s seen:
So what’s the big deal about Gabby’s hair? From what I am reading on Facebook and Twitter, many African American women who are SITTING and WATCHING Gabby compete believe her hair is not “kept.”
She needs some gel and a brush…
Someone needs to give her a hair intervention…
She has to “represent”…And indeed, if you search “Gabby Douglas hair” on Twitter, you get quite a few results.
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Funny story guys, Black peoples hair does not move not work the same way the hair of any other ethnity. So as a black...
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Fuck everyone who thinks this girl should really care what people think of her HAIR. She just won an Olympic gold medal...
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I’m sorry, but can we stop focusing on how the olympic women LOOK and instead pay more attention to how they are SO...
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The girl did something practically all of us would fail horribly upon attempt (probably with multiple broken bones), and...
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thebaconsandwichofregret reblogged this from oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings and added:
Oh yeah because that’s way more important than her being the entire reason for the USA’s Gold medal
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Im not black, and im aware this is an aspect of black culture, that im never going to fully understand it, but what the...
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How about people shut the fuck up about how people want to present themselves? I’m sorry if you find her hair far more...
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this-disgusting-ribbon reblogged this from oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings and added:
what in the name of flip maybe she doesn’t have time to relax every follicle on her head because she’s busy being an...
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SPORTZ where if youre a woman and you do well THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU
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Oh, I’m sorry - she was too busy at the motherfucking olympics to care.
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repede reblogged this from enterthedreamatorium and added:
all i’ve gotten out of the olympics the last 4 years is: if a woman can run as fast as a man, she must have xy...
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prince-of-fades reblogged this from oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings and added:
no, they need to stop. it’s prolly their janky-ass tv screens anyways >_>
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This is fucking disgusting. Would anyone be saying the same kind of things about Jordyn, Aly or the rest of the girls?...
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