So every once in a while twitter has a Trending Topic that creeps its way on the feminist blogosphere. Today&amp;#8217;s Dove sponsored #dearhair Trending Topic is one of those TTs.
Dove is encouraging people all over twitter to write a letter to their hair telling it how much they hate it. So they can&amp;#8230; buy Dove products through they&amp;#8217;re own self hatred I suppose&amp;#8230;
This is irritating because, as a 21 yr old Woman of Color I JUST got to the point where I&amp;#8217;ve not only fully accepted my own natural hair - but i&amp;#8217;ve grown to love it for what it naturally is. Not to say I didn&amp;#8217;t spend my entire summer trying to see what products and conditioners &amp;#8220;work&amp;#8221; with my hair. But my hair acceptance journey definitely didn&amp;#8217;t come about from hair product companies encouraging me to indulge in self hatred.
We&amp;#8217;re always&nbsp;encouraged&nbsp;to talk about what we hate about ourselves, and never&nbsp;encouraged&nbsp;to love ourselves for who we are. We&amp;#8217;re always pushed to compare ourselves to others (and others are probably pushing themselves to be like you or I) We&amp;#8217;re always our harshest critic and these are reasons why. I&amp;#8217;m tired of this &amp;#8220;I want what I don&amp;#8217;t have&amp;#8221; mentality when it comes to beauty standards
So i&amp;#8217;m calling for a twitter bomb of this #dearhair&nbsp;nonsense. A friend of mine on twitter also suggested we started tweeting&nbsp;&nbsp;#myhairisbeautiful&nbsp;and&nbsp;#stfudove