Chapter Five Page 1
Jan11
Bianca (offscreen): AAAAAUGH!! I HATE MY HAIR!!
Patrick: Shouldn’t we do something?
Sparrow: Don’t worry, she gave me a script to read when this happens. Hang on while I find it . . .
Ahem. “Don’t do it, Bianca! You are a strong Black woman whose natural beauty does not need validation from–”
Bianca (offscreen): It’s okay, Sparrow! I’m not having an existential crisis! I just have a stuck rubber band!
Hehehe I love how the scripted thing is funny yet very logical and intelligent a move. :D
*Winces* As a white girl with straight blonde hair that I wear long and constantly in ponytails, I so totally feel Bianca’s pain over a stuck rubber band. ;)
Having things stuck to your hair is terrible. Bubble gum is probably the worst.
And natural hair looks best. I always tell that to my g/f (she has the Nigerian curly hair and spends a lot of time straightening it because it “looks nicer”).
…I don’t get it. Help?
If you see a black woman with straight hair, it is not natural. There’s a lot of pain they go through to get it to behave like white woman hair.
Bianca has made the choice to love her natural hair…despite the care consequences that come with -that- too. It’s hard to win either way. The ‘script’, one would guess, is to keep her from giving in and going back to hair relaxers.
Even when I was away from the comic for multiple years, I frequently thought back on the Hair Love Script with fondness.
Awww (and the next page).