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.

A garbage disposal is convenient for getting rid of vegetable ends without them making the garbage smell, but I don't really see it as a necessity. Without one, I just need to take out the trash more often.

So we use our garbage disposal very sparingly, for stuff that got just didn't get cleaned out of the sink before we could get to it. (Like if I'm mincing herbs and rinsing it at the same time and some get washed down).

We do use our Vitamix like a garbage disposal in that we blend EVERYTHING in it except pits from fruit.

I have one more dental cleaning and then two fillings to go. Woo hoo. They did a cleaning on the bottom teeth today and used six shots of anesthesia. WHAT? Least painful cleaning of my life until now (that the anesthesia is wearing off).

I've never understood the point of them.

Dried out wet catfood sludge. Congealed soup gone bad. I have to employ the fork-swirling-in-the-drain methodology. I want one.

The term Jewish hair will never not confuse me, as long as black people can, you know, be Jewish. But I guess if Jewish people are making the equivalence...

If a garbage disposal handled what I wished it did, they would be nifty things indeed. I try and keep down the amount of stuff that rots out of my garbage. But they don't and even the "harmless" tea leaves I was putting down there are clearly not a good idea.