Posted on 11/20/2017 6:28:03 AM PST by simpson96
CNN) — If you've never had a stranger try to touch your hair without permission, you're lucky. You're also probably not a black woman.
A new video game will give you a taste of how frustrating the experience can be.
Creator Momo Pixel designed the game after she was tired of people making unwanted touches of her hair. And other black women are equally tired of undesired touching, which is why the game, released on Wednesday, has gone viral.
It's a conversation that keeps happening, although black women have repeatedly said, "Don't touch my hair." The message has been relayed in the news, in entertainment media and now in video games. Pixel says the message needed to be shared once again "so we don't have to keep having this conversation."
When players enter the video game's website, there's already a black hand swating away a hair toucher's hand.
When players enter the video game's website, there's already a black hand swating away a hair toucher's hand.
She remembers trying to explain this phenomenon to her boss, who's white. Pixel is an art director and pixel designer for Wieden+Kennedy in Portland. Her boss tried to imagine what she and other black women experience when people touch their hair without warning.
When players enter the video game's website, there's already a black hand swating away a hair toucher's hand.
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That girl’s hair looks like something a cat would barf up.
I work with a wonderful woman, mother of three over-achieving boys, smart as a whip, who happens to be an African-American. We get along great (unlike my relations with some idiots around here). She always has interesting, different, and creative hairstyles. I never know what she will do with her hair; the creations are just like sculptures. I did once ask to touch her hair since I just wanted to know how it was possible to be shaped that way. She readily agreed. She was not offended in the slightest; I think she was flattered.
Oh, will I ever be forgiven?
Notice how it’s White people that are the problem? What a load!
Happened to me in South America, Asia and Africa. It is rude and why I wear my hair up to this day.
The little kids in Trinidad wanted to touch my daughter’s long blond hair
I did that to my son’s flat tops when they were little lol
Touch it? I can't find it!
People sometimes like touching my hair. It’s shaved to 1/16”, so it feels cool to rub it.
The article's Portland is the one in Oregon, not Maine.
And young kids are young kids. (Who ought to be taught more basic manners than most American kids are.)
Still, some kind of epidemic that has to become a thing? Really?
I was speaking figuratively, not literally. Black females are ~3% of Portland, OR’s population. Hard to imagine white/Asian Porlanders intrusively touching black females’ hair, but given voters there inflicted the odious Sen Bob Packwood-R on us for years before sex harrassment charges finally forced his ouster, I wouldn’t be surprised.
This entire subject is predicated on a lie - that people want to touch the hair of black females, which is laughable.
Sorta like the whole meme that black women are raped by white men, which is so laughable it is not even laughable.
This is simply anti-white propaganda. It reeks od hatred for white people.
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