Man in tears after catching his girl without a weave for the first time

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"I can't believe it after all these months!"

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Dude is a nut.
 
ClayKavalier said:
What exactly is a weave? Is it like a stye thing or is it basically a wig? Like, are they worn so that you can have both short and long hair styles based on your mood, or something you'd wear if you have cancer or something?
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It's just extra hair woven into your hair.
 
1) The vid is clearly a fake/exaggerated reaction for comedy and hits.

2) But it does reflect the real-life surprise some dudes experience when they see a black girl's natural hair. And that's sad to think about...

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Not to be a kill-joy, but when you think about it these gifs are really sad. We put such extreme pressure on black women to conform to the "standard" of having long, curly, "good" (read: as close to European as possible) hair.

And then we turn around and make fun of them for it.
 
This isn't even funny. It's scripted as well. Seems like a lot of people on social media wants to be a comedian...

People really believe he never knew his "Girlfriend" had a weave and fake eyelashes after 1 or more weeks/months? Come on...lol
 
I honestly think weaves&extensions are kind of sad, so many girls ruin their own hair in order to adjust to some sort of unrealistic picture of beauty in the west. Hair care for black women is ridiculously expensive too, a good weave can run up into the thousands of dollars. This guy is obviously messing around with it but it's kind of not funny. And we aren't even talking about decurlers because those are even worse.
 
zeemumu said:
It's just extra hair woven into your hair.
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Why do you get one? Is it with the intention of permanently growing your actual hair to that length and you're basically just taking a shortcut so you can style your hair they way you want sooner? Or is it a temporary thing where you just decide to have long hair for awhile?

What I don't understand is, the guy says his girlfriend is bald. Does she like to be bald and she got a weave to shake things up? Or is she maybe bald for a medical reason or something and the weave is like a wig?
 
Met my bf with an afro then I switched to a straight weave. He then made a gta girl that looks like me with natural hair. That was so cute.

To call your girl all this because she got short hair is pathetic. What a loser.
 
ClayKavalier said:
Why do you get one? Is it with the intention of permanently growing your actual hair to that length and you're basically just taking a shortcut so you can style your hair they way you want sooner? Or is it a temporary thing where you just decide to have long hair for awhile?

What I don't understand is, the guy says his girlfriend is bald. Does she like to be bald and she got a weave to shake things up? Or is she maybe bald for a medical reason or something and the weave is like a wig?
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Are you black?

I'm not even being shady, but that bit of info is really going to frame how I answer your questions here...
 
ClayKavalier said:
Why do you get one? Is it with the intention of permanently growing your actual hair to that length and you're basically just taking a shortcut so you can style your hair they way you want sooner? Or is it a temporary thing where you just decide to have long hair for awhile?

What I don't understand is, the guy says his girlfriend is bald. Does she like to be bald and she got a weave to shake things up? Or is she maybe bald for a medical reason or something and the weave is like a wig?
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Why you do any fashion accessory. Like nails. You can get fake ones or you can grow your nails out to freakishly large sizes.
 
zeemumu said:
Why you do any fashion accessory. Like nails. You can get fake ones or you can grow your nails out to freakishly large sizes.
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So this guy's girlfriend is probably bald by choice and the weave is an accessory?

Growing your nails out to freakish lengths seems more impractical since they can break, but a lot of women have long natural hair.
 
This is clearly satire.

Anyone that grew up around large populations of African-Americans knows the obsession with hair and weaves. Back in high school when girls would get into fights the first insults were always about the weave or hair. I remember two girls fighting in the classroom because they both had the same exact weave and they started yanking each other's weaves out and throwing them. A third girl ran up and picked up all the weave pieces and ran off yelling "this is some expensive shit"
 
ClayKavalier said:
No, I'm not.

I'm really curious to see your separate black and white explanations now though.
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You won't see me separate them, because I'm not going to give you the black explanation. I'm going to refrain from using a lot of the lingo, as well as avoid the base assumptions that I would if I were having this conversation with another black person, or someone who grew up around black people and knew enough about black hair to understand.

Too keep it brief as possible, black women wear weaves largely because black people (but especially black women) are raised in a society where they're told that black hair is...for lack of a better term, ugly. The kinks, the matte texture...all ugly. And we're not just told that black hair is ugly from a beauty standpoint, we're also told that it's improper, unprofessional, unclean, and just all-in-all not corporate. This is why many companies today still have policies against twists, cornrows, dreds and, yes, even afros, despite the fact that these are all the hairstyles best-suited for a black person's natural hair. This is also the reason why most black men keep no length whatsoever.

So if a black woman wants to be seen as adhering to society's standards of beauty, and if she wants to get a corporate job or just be taken seriously by society in general, she gets a weave.

Now, you may be wondering why black women don't just style their natural hair in a way typically seen with weaves, or if they're just using the weave a shortcut. No. It's simple, black hair doesn't just "straighten" on its own. To straighten black hair, you have to use ungodly amounts of damaging heat and/or scalp-injuring chemicals. The treatments are expensive if you go to a salon, and you SHOULD go to a salon, because if you don't and you have a novice do you hair you risk damaging it to the point of turning it into straw or, worse, having it all fall out. For a lot of women, it's just all-around cheaper and less damaging to get a weave.
 
IceCold said:
You guys who don't know what a weave is or what black chicks go through when it comes to their hair should watch the movie Good Hair by Chris Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-4qxz08So
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I think I need to see this lol.

I had kind of assumed from watching various things that black women seemed to often get hair extensions more often than white women (anecdotally) but never really understood if I was just imagining it or whether there was something to it.
 
IdreamofHIME said:
What's a weave? Like a wig?
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artificial hair, weaved into naturally shorter or curly hair to give the appearance of extra length to allow people with shorter hair to have styling options. And since appearance is so closely related to how economically successful you might be, the...you know what. i just ran completely out of steam.

there's just so much context behind it all, so when someone who has completely no idea, it's just like, too much to explain.
 
this is sad on so many levels. Deception, stereotypes, far too critical judgement, and a ruined relationship over a fake piece of hair. Truly sad.

these are the reasons why I felt bad for laughing
 
Not funny video, well a bit funny. But one thing that this reminded me of is that I just realized recently the type of wizardry girls can do with their looks. They can look like entirely different people with the right people and it's not necessarily for the better.
 
Is it weird that when I once ran my fingers through a white girl's hair and I was surprised she had tonnes of extensions? I wasn't distraught like the guy in the OP but I was certainly shocked.
 
royalan said:
1) The vid is clearly a fake/exaggerated reaction for comedy and hits.

2) But it does reflect the real-life surprise some dudes experience when they see a black girl's natural hair. And that's sad to think about...

EDIT:

baldhead-chris-tucker-craig-film-friday-Favim.com-233302.gif

SLy8LAd.gif


Not to be a kill-joy, but when you think about it these gifs are really sad. We put such extreme pressure on black women to conform to the "standard" of having long, curly, "good" (read: as close to European as possible) hair.

And then we turn around and make fun of them for it.
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The whole thing is just really upsetting.
 
royalan said:
You won't see me separate them, because I'm not going to give you the black explanation. I'm going to refrain from using a lot of the lingo, as well as avoid the base assumptions that I would if I were having this conversation with another black person, or someone who grew up around black people and knew enough about black hair to understand.

Too keep it brief as possible, black women wear weaves largely because black people (but especially black women) are raised in a society where they're told that black hair is...for lack of a better term, ugly. The kinks, the matte texture...all ugly. And we're not just told that black hair is ugly from a beauty standpoint, we're also told that it's improper, unprofessional, unclean, and just all-in-all not corporate. This is why many companies today still have policies against twists, cornrows, dreds and, yes, even afros, despite the fact that these are all the hairstyles best-suited for a black person's natural hair. This is also the reason why most black men keep no length whatsoever.

So if a black woman wants to be seen as adhering to society's standards of beauty, and if she wants to get a corporate job or just be taken seriously by society in general, she gets a weave.

Now, you may be wondering why black women don't just style their natural hair in a way typically seen with weaves, or if they're just using the weave a shortcut. No. It's simple, black hair doesn't just "straighten" on its own. To straighten black hair, you have to use ungodly amounts of damaging heat and/or scalp-injuring chemicals. The treatments are expensive if you go to a salon, and you SHOULD go to a salon, because if you don't and you have a novice do you hair you risk damaging it to the point of turning it into straw or, worse, having it all fall out. For a lot of women, it's just all-around cheaper and less damaging to get a weave.
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I see, I didn't understand that weaves are used to get styles that aren't usually possible at all. I thought, like I said, hair extensions in general are just used to get longer hair without actually waiting for hair to grow out.
 
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