keykee
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I am so sick and tired of people calling me Macy Gray. Obviously its mainly white people who are doing this.
When I first started wearing braid outs I remember some girl calling out to me in the street saying hey Macy Gray.
In the summer, I was at a bar downtown and a guy was chatting me up and said you know what.. you look like Macy Gray. I got mad at him and he bought me a drink to apologize.
erplexed
Yesterday I went clubbing and while I was dancing some guy started touching my hair and saying Macy Gray. I turned around to him and said.. my name is Clare and this is the way my hair grows out of my head (swear word).
I was at my friend's bar a couple weeks ago and I was walking outside to get some air and someone called out - see ya Macy! I turned around and I felt this anger within me where I felt that right at that moment, if I had known exactly who said it (there was a crowd of people outside) I would have punched the person in the face. I'm glad I didn't. But the whole thing is getting annoying.
I went back inside and told my friend (who is white) what had happened and he said I was just overreacting. I told him - because our hair may be similar doesn't make me her. I am me. This is my hair. It`s not a gimmick. If you saw more natural black women you would understand that. I`ve complained to many of my friends (and the majority of my friends are not black females) and they just don`t understand and think I am overreacting.
I hate the fact that because these idiots remember one person with natural hair, they try to relate me to her. My hair isn't a trend. I am not trying to look like Macy Gray. This is the way my hair looks like. I get really annoyed with the whole thing.
Has anyone experienced this? Am I overreacting? I am a pretty dramatic person.. but I don't think I am overreacting. I don't like being labelled as someone because you remember some woman who has hair like mine.
How do you suggest i deal with this? Violence? lol
When I first started wearing braid outs I remember some girl calling out to me in the street saying hey Macy Gray.
In the summer, I was at a bar downtown and a guy was chatting me up and said you know what.. you look like Macy Gray. I got mad at him and he bought me a drink to apologize.
erplexedYesterday I went clubbing and while I was dancing some guy started touching my hair and saying Macy Gray. I turned around to him and said.. my name is Clare and this is the way my hair grows out of my head (swear word).
I was at my friend's bar a couple weeks ago and I was walking outside to get some air and someone called out - see ya Macy! I turned around and I felt this anger within me where I felt that right at that moment, if I had known exactly who said it (there was a crowd of people outside) I would have punched the person in the face. I'm glad I didn't. But the whole thing is getting annoying.
I went back inside and told my friend (who is white) what had happened and he said I was just overreacting. I told him - because our hair may be similar doesn't make me her. I am me. This is my hair. It`s not a gimmick. If you saw more natural black women you would understand that. I`ve complained to many of my friends (and the majority of my friends are not black females) and they just don`t understand and think I am overreacting.
I hate the fact that because these idiots remember one person with natural hair, they try to relate me to her. My hair isn't a trend. I am not trying to look like Macy Gray. This is the way my hair looks like. I get really annoyed with the whole thing.
Has anyone experienced this? Am I overreacting? I am a pretty dramatic person.. but I don't think I am overreacting. I don't like being labelled as someone because you remember some woman who has hair like mine.
How do you suggest i deal with this? Violence? lol
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Now that my hair is longer, I get Joan.
I'm ready 
