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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Why would you touch someone’s hair? I know it happens in Asia but I didn’t know it happened here
This is a racist dog whistle and I am triggered.
I’ve never seen anyone trying to touch a black’s hair.
Why would anybody touch somebody’s hair?? I think black women are nuts, personally. I’ve never see any white woman touch a black person’s hair. Although Scout did it for luck in “To Kill a Mockingbird” - maybe one of the reasons it’s getting banned, lol.
I was just thinking that touching someone else’s hair without permission is a pretty big violation of personal boundaries, myself.
I am white, and I teach mostly Latino students, and I assure you, they also want to touch my hair. It’s strange because I didn’t think my hair is any different from theirs, but apparently mine is finer, so they (especially the girls) occasionally want to feel my hair and they always go “oooooo”. LOL... I don’t get upset. Of course, they are just kids.
I just don’t get this. I have never asked or seen anyone ask to touch a black woman’s hair.
Who would do that and just how much of an issue can this be?
I think we’ve moved beyond micro-aggressions at this point and are accounting for milli-aggressions.
When my daughter was in elementary and middle school.. she had long, blonde hair. She would come home with “corn rows”. I sort of just stood there and said, “uh.. what?” Many of her black girl friends just loved braiding her hair.. the feel of it was different. Didn’t really bother me at all but it was a bit of a shocker.
giant teased out fro or dreadlocks... I could see young kids being curious what they feel like.
Uh, I have never touched a black woman’s hair, or any other woman’s hair, for the heck of it. The only time that I have touched a woman’s hair was when it was invited.
Oh, gimme a frickin’ break. Who would DO such a thing? Answer: Nobody, except figments of imagination.
Is your daughter Rachel Dolezal?? (sarc)
??
The imagination is strong in this one.
I feel a great disturbance in the logic.
Most black women today have $300 hair weaves or extensions. They can’t touch or scratch their heads if they want to prolong the life. Also in a fight it is the first thing they go for in an altercation with each other.
Nope!! In her mind, she liked french braids.. so corn rows was “sort” of a new, exciting hair style she wore for the day. In this moments climate... maybe it would be called “appropriating” or whatever... but not a few years ago. :)
Same here with our daughter in daycare after school. The black staff would braid her hair all the time. My daughter sat still and enjoyed the adult lady talk. Nice experience for her.
This used to happen to my step daughter all the time when we lived in Mexico. She has long and thick blonde hair and these Mayan or Aztec women would walk up and not just touch it but grab it and pull on it.
ONLY self-hating, guilt-ridden liberals do this. Everyone knows that.
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