In my experience, black women’s femininity is taken away from us like Rashad took that chain off of New New’s neck. We want to embrace it, but we are constantly scrutinized by the majority of society for embracing femininity full on.https://twitter.com/VirgoJ24/status/1146200362862501888 …
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Black women wear fake hair, now we are trying to be not black or hate ourselves. But when black women wear our natural hair and our cultural styles we are sometimes labeled ugly, unprofessional, ghetto.
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Black women get our nails done OUR WAY (which is a black American cultural thing that now everybody gets them). We get labeled “ghetto”, “high maintenance” and asked an array of questions like, “How do you do anything with those?”
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And then a lot of black women REJECT FEMININITY because they want to avoid being CONSTANTLY objectified and sexualized. We can’t even go to work without someone commenting on our entire aesthetic. Everyone has an opinion.
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Don’t get me started on the women that want to be taken care of financially and lean into classic patriarchal femininity as it refers to relationship responsibilities. Black women are told they’re only gonna get love if they sacrifice themselves. Then and only then, rewarded.
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