Thanks, ita. I was just getting confused that people were writing so many article about people criticizing her hair without ever saying what the criticism was.

And this hair talk reminds me that I was supposed to call the salon to make an appointment today, and I forgot. (My hair is getting way scraggly, but I haven't been at home for a few months, and I don't know who I can trust with my hair in NJ.)

What the heck are they for, then?

According to every plumber I've ever spoken to and a book I read on urban infrastructure, garbage disposals are primarily for getting clogged and causing problems. I have literally never heard anyone even tangentially related to the plumbing business say anything good about them, ever.

I don't get sports. I'll allow that many of them are pleasant to watch, but it's like a screensaver to me. I can only follow what's going on in very rare cases (tennis, rowing, running), and I've never been able to work up any ability to care about who wins or loses. (I'm pretty sure my parents are more disappointed that my kids are being brought up without the Red Sox than they are about my kids being brought up without religion, but I'm just missing the sports fan gene.)

According to every plumber I've ever spoken to and a book I read on urban infrastructure, garbage disposals are primarily for getting clogged and causing problems. I have literally never heard anyone even tangentially related to the plumbing business say anything good about them, ever.

Yep. They're evil.

I think I will go further to say that the beauty ideal in general is straight hair and for AA women this has restricted their behavior and movements to maintain straight hair for decades. A lot of people could not believe I have not straightened my hair since 1997. It was important to me to learn how to deal with my hair as it is.

Many women my mother's age wouldn't think about doing this. Despite the fact they have been burned, hair falling out, etc.

I wasn't phased by Gabby's hair. Too much social pressure for her to have done anything else.

I was surprised at how easy it was to go more than a year when my garbage disposal was "broken" (it wasn't - it was an electrical issue). I compost everything anyway. The only time it was really a pain was when I had parties and people, assuming it worked, crammed all sorts of stuff into it (which I had to pull out - yuck!).

le nubian, watching Chris Rock's documentary on hair was a real eye-opener for me! I had NO idea of all of the pain AND money that goes into keeping it a certain way.

I'm surprised that the comments on this article seem generally supportive of the author. [link] In most articles I've seen that made any sort of equivalency between black hair and Jewish hair, pretty much all the comments have been, "It's not the same, and you just don't get it." (And there really needs to be a better term than "Jewish hair.")

edit: read further, and got to the "you don't get it" comments. Oh well.

problem is, I don't think he's replaced.

Oh of course not! Because then it'd be all win, and we can't have that, can we? I just hope they don't tag the incompetent developer to take over his projects.

I was surprised at how easy it was to go more than a year when my garbage disposal was "broken"

I have had a disposal only once in my life, and didn't use it. I've never understood the point of them.