Young women find out the hard way: Natural hair is not a man magnet
I just read an article on Shine about the writer's friends growing out their relaxers and finding that black men are not attracted to the look. Well African American men generally like European standards of beauty -- with a few exceptions but we can't all date the handful of men who like African standards of beauty. We usually date local and available. Anyway, join the discussion!
Also, women who are stunning in every other way can go natural because they are stunning and do not need hair to make them beautiful. I need my hair!
I’ve watched them go through as many hairdos as they’ve gone
through cars, boyfriends, and addresses, and individually make the
transition to natural hair. They wear it in different but fabulous
ways: big, wild ‘fros, short and curly cuts, coils and two-strand
twists. Creativity with their locks has also been somewhat of
sociocultural experiment. My friends feel like they don’t get as
much male attention as they did before they grew their relaxers
out, and if they do, it ain’t by men who look like them. So
it begs the question: are black dudes biased against natural
hair?
