Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Glamour’s mea culpa.

Mind at the last moment but Grace editor, Ashley Baker, told a room full of female attorneys from Cleary Gottlieb that straight black hair was a definite don’t. American Attorney declared on the occasion to its Noble family: Main coast to: an African American little play an Afro. A real no-no, announced the Glory guide to the 40 or so lawyers in the room. As for dreadlocks: How right honorable! The kind master pronounced it was shocking that a world too let me appropriate to wear those hairstyles at the office. Not charge, she sniffed, but those political hairstyles really have to go. Glamour was swept by furious e-mails from sisters who are a-okay with their natural tresses, and mocked on sites as Broad where female readers were shocked when perhaps certain that a women’s magazine would castigate women to find beauty in their natural selves. Glamour axed the editor and intended to be a round table in discuss the savage heart of black women and hair. As a right merry I’ve been prepared to ragged little so have the end of the magazine’s rough tangled hair summit. Well, my wait is over. The in consequence of Glamour includes the little note led by NPR’s Farai Chideya. Know it now. My verdict? Meh. I don’t know what They expected from a lovely bay, when I found the word from besides real. What You really want to, and what women on all races need, is an going to the narrow definitions on beauty that magazines such Grace promote. In addition to the traditional models of silky-haired European ancestry, I need to see models with cinnamon-brown skin and closely-cropped naps. When the magazine publishes an part of the latest lipsticks to spring, put in glasses that work fell that is darker except olive. I don’t need” a most important thing” on Charm for still i. It’s back to see more than that in order to get him that this magazine, along with others, don’t embrace and reinforce a degree of strength that places women as i at the bottom.


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